Round-up

1. A 15-year-old girl who claims she was the victim of racism at West Bend East High School is accused by police of fabricating the story. The girl, who is black, has said she was pushed down stairs and called racial slurs and had eggs thrown at her. But Police Chief Ken Meuler (MOY'-ler) said the story has not been backed up by surveillance video from inside the school or in interviews with students and faculty members.

If it turns out that she really did fabricate the story, I would not be at all surprised. Some members of minority groups have gotten so desperate for something to whinge and complain about now that they are resorting to outright lies to discredit Old Whitey. We gonna get it BAD fo' dat slavery thang.

By the way, Muslims are at it, as well.

2. An Auburn University professor is using a racist note as a teaching opportunity. Chippewa Thomas is an assistant professor in the college of education. She said she found a note written last week at the bottom of a flier she had hung that read “There’s no room for hate on campus.”

This is racism? Am I missing something?

3. Uefa, European football's governing body, has told Claus Bo Larsen that it will offer him its full support if the Danish referee decides to halt Liverpool's Champions League tie against Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón Stadium this evening, should the match be marred by racist abuse.

I do not agree with this. No one stopped the match when, shortly after the 1998 World Cup, David Beckham was greeted at every game he played with a chorus of boos and vile chants against his family, as well as people burning effigies of him at games. No one stops the match when the crowd call the referee a wanker. I do not support or advocate racist chanting, but I do not believe that combating it should take precedence over the other forms of bile and invective directed against players by the crowds.