I'm Part of an Antiracist Peace Group.I've Dated Black Girls.Then One Drunken Night I Said the N-Word, and Now I'm Paying the Price ...

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WHEN I heard the news about Ron Atkinson calling Chelsea's Marcel Desailly the N-word, I put down the knife I was buttering toast with, placed both hands on the bar of my kitchenette, and shuddered.

I still shudder when I think about that night three-and-a-half years ago when my life, too, fell apart because I said that word. The only thing I really remember was being led from a police cell down a corridor to see the forensic medical officer, to check if I was fit to be held. No one would tell me why I was there. Had I perhaps been involved in terrorism? Finally, a senior-looking officer in shirt sleeves half-shouted: "You racially abused a motorist on Tower Bridge, sir. And we've got the whole thing on videotape!"

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I'm Part of an Antiracist Peace Group.I've Dated Black Girls.Then One Drunken Night I Said the N-Word, and Now I'm Paying the Price ...

I was only able to piece together what I had done from the evidence. Tower Bridge is well-lit, and well-served by colour CCTV cameras, which can zoom in if there is something worth watching. So I was able to see, and hear, thanks to a recording of my victim's phone call to the police, exactly what I had...

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