Cop joke. Funny ha ha

I think it's right that the west midlands police officer was demoted over the BMW comment. Remember, he was demoted, which is a slap on the wrist, not sacked. The particular 'BMW' play on words comes out of an era of much social and polituical strife betrween black communities and the media led larger community. The 'quip' invokes the sentiment of the times like a secret code for the old guard that may be present. The officer isn't stupid, using the ethos of matured modern liberalism to disguise his rascism as an acceptable joke. His penalty serves to illustrate that you can't just pull the wool over eveybody's eyes . We are still on the ball. Though we are indeed fighting the battle of racism on more graphic fronts, we will stamp on the myriad of weeds that feed it; this being typical. In an ideal utopia these gibes would be confronted as an attack on every turn yes he did cross the line, yes, sir alec ferguson did cross the line. Yes many people are wrongly held to account over a mis-understood comment by the over zealous pc brigade. our challenge is to gague who warrants castigation and who doesn't