I haven't watched Big Brother...ever. Sorry if that makes me sound rather snobish...but I simply don't see the need to watch a bunch of people (celebrities or not) being manipulated into the worst excesses of human behaviour by a false social environment.
However, its been hard to avoid the thing this week. Hours of media coverage have left us all reeling, apparently, at the 'surprise' that there is racism still alive and well in the UK. And thousands of people have been inspired to write to complain..."Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells" has been firing up his email this week!
Actually, whilst not condoning for a moment the racism that has happened on the TV, I can't help but feel sorry that this amount of passion does not get exercised over the real injustices in the world.
The barely literate insults of a celebrity are NOTHING in comparison to the SCANDAL of world poverty. The nation seems to care massively for the one Indian film star whose race has been used as an insult...and seems utterly blind to the horror of millions of starving people throughout the world.
Surely, the real racism is that which says "You are African...therefore you starve."?
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