Round-up

There are at least two stories in the news today involving people who have been cleared of racism after the initial allegations were discovered to be unfounded.

First, there's Janet Street-Porter, who was accused of shouting "black bitch" at a neighbour. Turned out to be untrue.

Then there's this Johannesburg bus driver who was accused of racially abusing eight school children and forcing them off a bus. Again, this turned out to be untrue and it later emerged that the children had lied about the incident. Interestingly, this was black-on-white racism, which gets far less coverage in the media than the white-on-black kind, or any other kind. Shame on the children for making up such lies and it's nice to see that the situation was resolved amicably in the end.