RamuelLJackson

Put it out of your mind B4. It's just a difference of opinion and most posters are on your side. 

Well I am sorry I never meant cause trouble I am sorry sigh
All I wanted to talk about football and that it.?????????????☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹

You didn’t do anything wrong @B4ev6is. No need to apologise to anybody therefore. I forget player’s names too. ?

Daniel lad, don't let this worry you. You posted innocently and with no malice aforethought. That should be the over-riding consideration here.
Don't let them grind you down. Keep on being you. There's nowt wrong with that. A few weeks down the road you'll know who's who and won't be struggling to describe a player. If there is a new one you could always check the team sheet if you're not sure of a name. The new player will be the one whose name you are unfamiliar with. Your enthusiasm has always been infectious. Keep on keepin' on. UTR!

I don’t get your point? Would I go up to a black person directly and tell them or describe them as black? Why would I need to do that? It’s not like they wouldn’t know.
If you are describing a third person by what they look like physically to identify them, using the colour of their skin is absolutely fine. Why wouldn’t it be?
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

There is no need for an edit, your views are your views, but, you do not get to decide what's appropriate on this message board, its for David and his team to do so.  Clearly they see no issue and feel that its fine to stay, which is why the moderators have not amended the post. 
I think we should leave the moderators to do there jobs rather than trying to do it for them, there jobs difficult enough as it is!

Describing him as black? He is black… And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Black isn’t a taboo word. It’s an adjective you use to describe something. 
 
There is a big difference when using the word in a derogatory sense or followed by an insult.
 

Blimey Johnny Russell has been loading up on the burgers in the States. Not keen on his odd socks either. 

yes, the only way you defeat racism is by making the colour of skin as insignificant as whether they wear glasses or have freckles, or whatever for that matter. I would imagine it is actually highly offensive to a lot of people of colour to suggest offense on their behalf by use of a factual physical descriptor. Really quite patronising attitude IMO. I do wonder if society will ever be capable of maturing without being led by the 1% offended-by-everything expressing faux outrage on behalf of someone else who isn't actually offended. 

Came in here to see some footy discussion and ended up in a Tory manufactured culture war.

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.
Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

I totally agree. I think we need two right backs though the season. Someone with experience and then someone like Oduroh with raw talent who will only get better and progress. 
Hopefully he wouldn't have big wage demands neither.