This is why amending the French constitution, rather than being an anti-racist stance, contributes to concealing the centrality of race to the past and present of modern Europe.
Alana Lentin and Valerie Amiraux, academics writing in The Guardian, cautioned that, "Not talking about races does not lead naturally to the demise of 'race thinking.'" "Amending the French Constitution, rather than being an anti-racist stance, contributes to concealing the centrality of race to the past and present of modern Europe," they wrote.
There have, since, been reiterations by Kenny Dalglish of the club's anti-racist stance and a firm reaction after a supporter was alleged to have racially abused the Oldham full-back Tom Adeyemi in the FA Cup tie on 6 January at Anfield, played in a fever of pro-Suárez sentiment.
In one encounter, D'Abrosca egged on a group of students by arguing their anti-racist stance was hypocritical if they weren't also speaking out about the "black people enslaved by Islam" and telling them that Silent Sam represented not white supremacy, but volunteer soldiers who stood up to Union Army depredations.
The Bundesrat, or upper house of Parliament, voted to ban the extreme-right National Democratic Party for trying to undermine the country's constitutional order with its "anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic stance".
Yet rather than this being a progressive, anti-racist or anti-Islamophobic stance, the lionisation of Lutfur Rahman based on his religious background betrays an attitude that would not be out of place on the white far-right.
One of the defendant's lawyers, Colin Moore, compared Trump's stance to the racist attitudes expressed in the 1930s during the infamous "Scottsboro Boys" case.
This isn't the first act of iconoclasm from FC St Pauli, which boasts an anarcho-libertarian punk fanbase and was the first club in Germany to codify its anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-sexist stance in its constitution.
