Real race hate crimes are unpunished says solicitor of black councillor who called Asian colleague a ‘coconut’
30th June 2010
Shirley Brown, 48, a Liberal Democrat, used the term to describe her Conservative colleague Jay Jethwa during a debate at Bristol City council last year. She was found guilty on Monday of racially aggravated insulting behaviour at Bristol Magistrate’s Court.
Announcing an appeal yesterday, Greg Fox Smith, her solicitor, said: “To have spent all her life championing diversity and community cohesion and she now has a race conviction.
Of course. Everybody knows that black people can’t be guilty of racism. Only white people can be guilty of racism.