One way or the other, even now, almost twenty years later, it shames me to think of it.
Boateng later tweeted: "Shame that these things still happen... #StopRacismforever", and the Milan coach, Massimiliano Allegri, told Gazzetta dello Sport: "I'm disappointed and saddened but I think it was the right decision not to return to the field out of respect for our players and all other black players.
Former Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur player Boateng later tweeted: "Shame that these things still happen... #StopRacismforever".
Do we want this vote to be a proud achievement for our party, and for all of America, or do we want to be shamed later by voting against such wide-sweeping reform?
Three months later, the panel publicly shamed Dr Obokata, accusing her of fabricating data, doctoring images and plagiarising.
The Americans let them die in their thousands again, only shamed weeks later into creating a "safe" zone in northern Iraq after tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians trekked under fire in a biblical exodus to the safety of Turkey.
Shame was one of the central drivers in Bishop's drinking: first, the internalised shame she carried from her childhood and, later, the shame that followed her own appalling binges.
The output of Nottingham-born Alan Sillitoe in particular puts later novelists to shame - many dozens of novels, story and poetry collections, plays, translations from the Spanish.
"It was a mistake," he said, later adding, "Shame on me for not knowing".
With this in mind, he argued in a later book, "Shame and Necessity" (1993), a study of ancient Greece, that Hellenic ethics allowed for a wider scope of praise and blame than did Christian-based morality, concluding that the sense of shame can be more in tune with our intuitions than moral guilt, and permits more latitude for living a whole life well.
