{"id":5495,"date":"2008-07-04T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/dont-call-white-people-honkies.html"},"modified":"2008-07-04T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T10:13:21","slug":"dont-call-white-people-honkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/dont-call-white-people-honkies.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t call white people “honkies” in England…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll get arrested even if you’re white<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He said: ‘I was outside the Oracle Shopping Centre and as a joke started pushing and rattling one of the bicycles that was locked up outside, as I’d had a few drinks.
\n‘The security guards told me to move on and that’s when I made the comment – I didn’t think about it, I just said it as a joke.
\n‘It was in jest, but they took it very seriously. They restrained me and called the police.’
\n[…]
\nHe said last night: ‘I admit I was being a bit cheeky, but I never meant to be offensive or racist at all.
\n‘Honky is a word that a lot of my black friends use to describe a white person, so I suppose that’s why I was charged with racial abuse. But it’s ridiculous that I was taken to court over it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s amazing to me is that the guy is joking and they still arrested him. Their criminal justice system is out of control. Thank the Lord we live in a country where you have to beat someone up (or commit some other form of assault) to be arrested for calling someone honky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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