You coconut!

Morba · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:27

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7915446.stm

New race row, over someone being called a coconut.

What?
How is that racist and even newsworthy? There wasnt even a formal complaint!!

blix · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:31

Mrs Brown told Mrs Jethwa at the meeting: "In our culture we have a word for you, a word which many in the city would understand, and that's coconut.

"At the end of the day I look at you as that."

lmao

LukeTW · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:32

SHUT UP YOU COCONUT!!

Andr3w · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:32

ffs lol

Cosimo · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:33

Wow, hot news from Bristol, says it all.

Morba · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:34

simulatorman said:
Wow, hot news from Bristol, says it all.

I agree, i could almost accept it being on thisisbristol.com, but on the BBC?? terrible :/

Nick1881 · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:35

I called my old team leader at work coconut head, because his head was thick and hairy just like a coconut

Stretch · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:38

In our community we have a word for people like you, you... you avocado :confused:

A.N.Other · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:41

Stretch said:
In our community we have a word for people like you, you... you avocado

Silence, you guava :eek:

Glaucus · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:43

Racial term wtf. doesn't it mean muppet/stupid and even then it's hardly ever used.

Stretch · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:43

A.N.Other said:
Silence, you guava

Oi, you take that back

Tom|Nbk · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:48

Mmmmm coconut

Morba · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:49

AcidHell2 said:
Racial term wtf. doesn't it mean muppet/stupid and even then it's hardly ever used.

Yeah, its just another way of saying you are "nuts". stupid people.

Vita · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:52

Coconut. Brown from the outside, white from the inside.

icey_haj · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:57

Vita said:
Coconut. Brown from the outside, white from the inside.

+1

Morba · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:58

Have you had to think about that or did it just come to you?
because that is the last thing that comes to mind regardless of who it is being said to.

Delvis · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:58

Vita said:
Coconut. Brown from the outside, white from the inside.

Are you saying she did the opposite to Michael Jackson?

Glaucus · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:59

Vita said:
Coconut. Brown from the outside, white from the inside.

That makes no sense and isn't what it means.

CliffyBiro · 28 Feb 2009 at 14:01

Bring On The Trumpets!

And on a side note, maybe the offended party was leaking milk?

Vita · 28 Feb 2009 at 14:01

AcidHell2 said:
That makes no sense and isn't what it means.

It does make sense. I know this because I've heard people say it to other asians. This is because whoever it's been said to, had acted rather 'white' and not 'brown'.