I assume you haven't read his history then.

He may be rich and privileged now but to say he has never been anywhere near the seamy end of life is risible.

“When I was two years old, my father was murdered. That shaped my entire life. Not long after that, my mum made the decision to leave me and my sister in Jamaica and go to England so she could get her degree and give us a better life. For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn’t fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.

“My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I’ll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge. I’d be arguing with my sister, like, ‘No! No! You got the toilets this time. I got the bed sheets.’

Guy working in the tax office believes in 'white privilege and superiority'.....Priceless, simply priceless.

As for historical persecution.....Do we get to pick? Why gets the right to treat people today based upon arbitrary views of the past?

Your great grandad did something bad to my great grandad.....Oh feel bad about it....real bad.....Bad bad Grandad.

Why do you always conflate two totally distinct and unconnected things and try and make some sort of point out of them? Strange behaviour. Oh, and I don't work in the tax office.

If you can find many people that don't think a racial slur is worse than calling someone ugly then I will go and buy a hat eat it.

There you go with that 'far left' nonsense again. Making all these nonsense assertions based on the little you know about people is exhausting. You'll never get a convincing argument because you'll never listen to one.

It's like trying to reason with a spoilt child.

Edited by DanH (12 Dec 2018 12.41pm)

Like it or not, newspapers influence public opinion. it is my humble opinion that there is a degree of truth in Sterling's allegations, especially if you look into the many negative stories about him (particularly in the early days). I think these have triggered a dislike for him which, in turn, has both enabled & encouraged journalists to use negative language when reporting on his antics. This also seems to have expanded to other black sportsmen & women.

This article from Daniel Taylor gives a good insight into the mindset of journalists....

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I understand that people become damaged by their life experiences and are therefore more sensitive to abuse.

I can tell you that my life growing up was hardly normal and sometimes it was tough but that gave me lots of extra skin to deflect adversity.

I am stronger for my life experiences.

In life, you either stand up to adversity or it does you in. Life is never fair.