“Enough is enough!” That was the cry from Ibrox’s press release in the aftermath of the Glen Kamara incident. A lot of us read it and thought, “Let’s just wait and see shall we?”
We didn’t have long to wait either.
“It’s about time this was tackled,” was the word from players and ex-players alike.
I always marvel at how few of them stood up for Neil Lennon, or how many stand up for James McLean down south.
All bigotry is equal eah? But some forms are more equal than others.
I bastardised Animal Farm there, but this is more akin to something out of 1984. Civic Scotland’s ability to flip the outrage switch when it suits them and to ignore sectarianism and anti-Irish racism the rest of the time has to require some version of doubtlethink.
It strikes me that this country has spent the last few weeks patting itself on the back for not being the Czech Republic and pretending not to notice that some of its citizens have a 17th century mentality which preaches hatred.
After the incident at Ibrox at the weekend was brought to the attention of the whole country last night a lot of people were waiting for the outrage to show itself. It hasn’t.
There’s not even been a word of criticism or condemnation.
Not one ex-pro has spoken up.
Not one media commentator has written about it or even mentioned it online.
Not one.
In a way, it’s remarkable … in another we call it “business as usual.”
I’ve written to Show Racism The Red Card Scotland and got nothing back.
I’ve written to a couple of MSP’s and got nothing back.
I won’t even waste my time trying to get the Scottish press interested in it without pressure from elsewhere.
The silence is deafening. The silence is disgusting.
I’ve re-posted my article from March asking “Who Stands For Us?” because I’m angry.
But anger itself never accomplished anything.
This incident has been captured on video and audio.
It’s a fact. It happened and we can’t let the media pretend that it didn’t.
Just because the Scottish press won’t cover it and Civic Scotland wants to ignore it, we shouldn’t stop pushing.
Send the thing to Stan Collymore, get him to comment.
Anthony Joseph of Sky is good on these matters, maybe he’ll say something.
Alex Thomson of Channel 4 has a big megaphone and is not shy about using it.
Ewan Murray at The Guardian abhors this stuff and I’m curious how he feels about it.
Even if the incident itself isn’t enough for them, the dead silence from everyone up here who matters surely represents a story in itself.
The reek of hypocrisy is choking us up here.
The reek of sectarianism hangs in the air no matter how much freshener they spray to disguise it because nobody ever pulls open the curtains and opens the window to let in the light and the air.
No more of this friends. No more.
I’m sure that I’ve heard that recently.