Royaly Racist

"But I didn't mean to offend anyone by calling them a paki!", Prince Harry bleats in a pathetic attempt to hide his racist tendencies. Come on now! You didn't think it would be offensive? I have never seen anybody who has half a nucleolus call somebody a racially prejudiced name and not expect a negative response. Not even a inbred redneck who was a signed up member of the Klu Klux Klan would call a black man a 'Nigga' and not expect it to cause offense.

As for his justification for using the phrase 'rag head', being used in reference to the Taliban, well thats just as laughable as his claim of ignorance. It is equally as abhorrent as calling someone a Paki, and just because they are at war does not justify its use. I have been in fights with white people, but does that mean I should go around referring to them as a 'cracker' or a 'honky'?

Still, can you really blame Prince Harry? You have to look at who his family is - wasn't his grandfather Prince Philip guilty of telling a racist joke about Asians a few years back? And there has always been accusations and stories of racial discrimination surrounding Buckingham Palace and the royals and the various departments that surround them for years. There is a cliche, 'There is no smoke without fire'... well there is certainly a fire going on.

Perhaps more worrying than Prince Harry's use of racist language is the refusal of anybody to issue an sincere apology, and by anybody, I do mean Prince Harry himself. The Scarsfield report branded the Metropolitan Police 'institutionally racist', but I believe it extends much further than the Met. Police. It pervades nearly every level of historical institution within Britain and until we stop denying it and trying to hide behind spin doctors and PR representatives, we will never deal with the problems.

Of course, it is a massive assumption that Britain wishes to deal with the problem.