So when a white person holds objectionable views — racism, for example — we rightly condemn them.
A third driver was racism in the housing market: many new migrants in the 1950s to 1970s faced appalling discrimination with "No blacks, no Irish, no dogs" signs common in the windows of lodging houses.
Other demonstrators said there was no political will to tackle issues around racism and inequality.
There have been regular incidents involving Serbian clubs in European competition and in December 2012 England's under-21 match ended in chaos with players being attacked on the pitch amid accusations of racism.
Their awkwardness at black people protesting the death of Eric Garner at the hands of the police, meanwhile, is clear evidence of the racism that keeps pictures like Selma off ballot sheets.
Now he is hopeful that the Football Association chairman Greg Dyke will use his Commission to help tackle the issue of racism in the game.
During the discussion David Goldblatt, a sports commentator for the Guardian and others, argued that the UK's experience dealing with its own discrimination problems had shown the need for a three-pronged approach: condemnation of racism from official football organisations, the growth of anti-discrimination fan organisations and the prosecution of high-profile violations by fans.
He had been aware of racism from white skinhead gangs in the area but had never thought about racism from the police.
But it also enjoys wider support, from people whose hostility towards immigrants or Islam is shaped less by old-fashioned racism than by a newfangled sense of fear and insecurity.
Powell, as Hanif Kureishi rightly points out in a piece on the same day, instilled real fear in many immigrant communities, and played a major role in instigating the wave of popular white racism from which the National Front and other fascist organisations profited in the 1970s.
As well as being a decorated AFL player, winning two Brownlow Medals and two premierships, 34-year-old Goodes has been actively involved in Indigenous sporting and community programs, and has championed the fight against racism both on and off the sporting field.
