Race for the prize

What is this, racism week? First, according to Fox News – Murdoch’s comical “Fair & Balanced” rolling hate generator, spewing fear but not Waitrose adverts into homes across America, not, sadly, updates on cunning plans to foil farmers and details of which bins boast the best scraps – reports on the racially dubious ideas of one Nobel winner. Then the dude who invented DNA, and picked up a Nobel prize (and England Man of the Match award) for the privilege, comes up with some idea about black people being stupid.

Sexy but stupid.

Now Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa parish, Louisiana, refuses to marry a mixed race couple (a black man and a white woman).

He came to the conclusion that most of black society did not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and nor did white society.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell said. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

So piles of piles of Bardwell's black mates can shit in his toilet but a mixed race child will never amount to anything. They’ll never be, say, the President of the United States of America. Or a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Or the England Man of the Match.