I'm still surprised that the nomination was made in the midst of everything that was going on with racial profiling".
"The biggest concern is people's attitude to coming because of annoyance at the result [of the vote] or because they feel they are not going to be welcome," said Bell. "The horrible thing going on now with racial abuse is not playing well.
As we watched the tapes that afternoon, Ali and I talked about the three leading heavyweights of the time — Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, and Clay himself — and the uncanny way they seemed to mark the political and racial changes going on just as they were fighting one another for the title.
"There's two things that are happening: Either it's a stunning lack of competence, or there's a racial profiling going on," he told VICE News.
Baldwin used to say 'I'm only black 'cos you think you're white.' That was his criticism of the fraud of racial discrimination, when racial integration has been going on for hundreds of years.
"Testers show that we still have racial steering and blockbusting going on," she said.
Clarke Carlisle, an ambassador for anti-racism campaigners Kick It Out, said: "It's so disappointing to see things like this going on, the racial element and the pure physical violence, kicks and punches being thrown.
"Even my Richard Pryor paintings," he went on, referring to a series of work based on jokes told by that black comedian, use a common racial epithet.
We use a language, which at times obscures what's going on --racial disegregationn, racial segregation, racial justice, etc.
I don't think they had a legitimate basis to make the stop.......what's going on here is racial stereotyping".
"If people think that there is racial tension going on every day in our firehouses, it's not true".
