Saturday, February 19, 2011

Must not notice that someone is black, apparently

This was said 11 years ago but has just been dredged up:
"Weeks after sexist behaviour cost him his job at Sky Sports, racism was added yesterday to the accusations levelled against Richard Keys.

The shamed football presenter was taped referring to a black player as ‘choco’. Keys, who today attempts to revive his career by starting a £200,000-a-year radio job alongside his partner-in-disgrace Andy Gray, made the comment while preparing for a broadcast.

Keys and former footballers Graeme Souness and Ray Wilkins are heard discussing Jamaican-born David Johnson, who at the time was tipped to represent Scotland.

Johnson, then a striker at Nottingham Forest, had been tipped to play for Scotland but it turned out he was ineligible. Wilkins starts asking a question before Souness, himself a Scot, interrupts, saying sarcastically: ‘He looks like a Jock, doesn’t he?’

Keys replies: ‘Choco Jocko.’

Source

3 comments:

TheOldMan said...

The ex-mayor of New Orleans referred to NO as a "chocolate city". NPR recently lamented that Washington D.C. is losing its chocolate flavor. What is the problem here?

Anonymous said...

It would appear thet he pissed somenone off who is determined to destroy him.

-btm

Anonymous said...

reminder, chocolate city by a black, deemed "OK"