Prince Harry’s latest racist faux-pas on video for posterity
Finally got round to clicking the News of the World vid link to Harry’s admission that his hair in the nether regions is ginger (although he appeared a little slow on the uptake) and whispered description of a fellow colleague as “little Paki friend”.
Of course attempts the brush away the remarks as “harmless army banter”/ pretty normal in army circles are attempts to excuse the inexcuseable. These are meant to be a family descended from God to divinely rule over the rest of us: ”god save you” he says in a mock (?) mobile call to his grandma Liz at one point. This cowardly racist namecalling at the very least it sets a poor example (as does his smoking, which he’s been photographed doing around kids in his charity work before). It is being claimed it’s ok because Ahmed the private the jibe was aimed at has not lodged a complaint. With the might ofthe royal family behind Harry no wonder he hasn’t. Plus the guy was asleep so he probably wouldn’t have heard the comment at the time.
Morrissey has apparently amde the observation that nowadays everyone is a journalist because of blogs and everyone is a potential paparazzi because of camera-phones but here the foolish Prince appears to have recorded this whole thing as a video-diary so can’t be blamed for being caught unawares, which is I suppose what happened when the chap who is referred to in the footage as “Mr Wales” but should by rights by “Mr Saxe-Coburg” went to a royal ball (or somesuch) dressed as a Nazi in a previous scandal .
The person who does appear to be thinking of registering his disapproval is Trevor Philips (ex CRE, now head of son-of CRE). Last I heard of him was at the Progress conference when he appeared to be speaking out in favour of white males as a disadvantaged breed, which I thought sounded like an attempt to be controversial. Taking that logic he should be empathising with HRH. I’m grateful he’s not though.
What chance Ahmed squeals next?
January 11, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Harry is just an upper class cretin.
I found the response on radio phone in shows more disturbing and depressing, with seemingly endless numbers of people justifying why it was alright to call an individual who happens to be of Asian descent a ‘Paki’, because it is the right of racists to do so. In fact, the mood was that it is a violation of the human rights of white people to object to this racism. Much bubbles under the surface and behind backs, I fear.
January 12, 2009 at 9:35 am
And yet my small local shop is called the Little Paki corner shop, I cannot use this shop now because it’s an insult I bet the Pakistani owners are going to be pissed off.
I checked on the Internet to find 46 shops or businesses called Paki including a large chain food processor.
Who the hell makes words insulting do we have a government department.
PC gone mad.
January 12, 2009 at 12:52 pm
It’s all a centralised conspiracy to destroy the self esteem and confidence of white people like you Robert. All of it.