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January 22, 2005

Britain Rescued From Institutional Racism

Posted by Dave Blount at January 22, 2005 9:40 AM

As reported by the Evening Standard, care worker Rebecca Miles was working at Alert, a British center for "victims of racism and domestic violence" when she forgot the name of a Bangladeshi woman and let loose with this unconscionable remark: "It was Pamala, Popalam or Popadom — something like that."

Popadom is a thin flatbread eaten in Southern Asia.

The care worker was told she could keep her job only if she attended an "antiracism" brainwashing course and wrote an essay on an allegedly racially motivated murder. Proving that even in Europe, some people have the backbone to stand up to militant PC lunacy, Mrs. Miles declined.

According to a spokesman for Alert, allowing such comments to go unpunished would contribute toward institutional racism.

No word from Alert on the appropriate humiliation for Ted Kennedy, who recently referred to his colleague Barack Obama as "Osama bin … Osama … Obama."

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