Can Ginger people become top footballers?

[turienzo's lovechild]

sam rents is giner

 

[Albion Rob]

If you removed the word "ginger" from this thread and replaced it with "black" it would be considered bigoted and would be removed, but this is considered okay.

Can someone explain to me why this is? And yes, I am being serious.

I think there was a debate on this sort of issue when Mia Hamm scord the winning goal for the US in the Women's World Cup.

The general argument seemed to be that black people have endured centuries of persecution. Issues like slavery, not being able to vote, being forced to ride on seperate buses and go to seperate schools from white people were all cited.

While ginger people do get a fair bit of stick and a lot of playground teasing, they have never been denied basic human rights and civil liverties on account on the colour of their hair.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I think there was a debate on this sort of issue when Mia Hamm scord the winning goal for the US in the Women's World Cup.

The general argument seemed to be that black people have endured centuries of persecution. Issues like slavery, not being able to vote, being forced to ride on seperate buses and go to seperate schools from white people were all cited.

While ginger people do get a fair bit of stick and a lot of playground teasing, they have never been denied basic human rights and civil liverties on account on the colour of their hair.

Prejudice is predujice, no matter how you dress it up.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Well its a silly topic isn't it - of course hair colour has nothing to do with football ability. The first answer, Paul Scholes, knocks any argument out of the water.

I'll add Steffen Effenberg and Perry Groves to the list

 

[just_bhafc]

The Ginger XI:

Mike Hooper

Jimmy Nicholl
Alex Mcleish
Billy Bremner
Riise

Alan Ball
Nicky Butt
Strachan
Steffen Effenberg

Alan Brazil
Paul Scholes


Subs from:
Alexei Lalas
Sidwell
Mayo
David Hopkin
Carlos Valderrama?

 

[Chesney Christ]

I think there was a debate on this sort of issue when Mia Hamm scord the winning goal for the US in the Women's World Cup.

The general argument seemed to be that black people have endured centuries of persecution. Issues like slavery, not being able to vote, being forced to ride on seperate buses and go to seperate schools from white people were all cited.

While ginger people do get a fair bit of stick and a lot of playground teasing, they have never been denied basic human rights and civil liverties on account on the colour of their hair.

Thats a fair point. However, if there was a black person that had never, in any way, shape or form, been directly affected by racism of any kind, then would it be acceptable to go up to him and call him a "black c*nt"?

I am not for one second trying to compare the experiences of being teased for being ginger and being teased for being black because clearly there is no comparison and I could not begin to understand some of the prejudice suffered by black people.

I do however detest the casualness with which people are taunted because of a hair colour they were born with, as if the comments could not possibly be hurtful in any way. I also dislike this country's strange, and rather immature, obsession with it. Its a hair colour for f*** sake!

PS - Has anyone else noticed a difference in attitudes between the north and the south towards ginger hair? At Uni, when I was generally surrounded by northerners and brummies it was never mentioned, but down here my stupid mates never f***ing shut up about it.