Danny Baker should be sacked immediately

Annie His feeble excuses just sound increasingly pathetic because we can all see through them.

Gone mentioned her commonsense earlier - well my commonsense tells me that he has damned himself with his stupid excuses that just won't wash.... surely even to his defenders.

It beats me how anyone could defend someone who makes racist comments about a newborn baby. How low can someone sink???

Sparkle you're absolutely right, yes - add that he specifically linked that photo to the royal couple and the odds are even more in favour of the first option I posted.

So he hadn’t taken in the fact that the media has gone on and on about the marriage of this couple, that she was of mixed race for nearly two years , he has no knowledge of the racist taunts at black footballers , bananas and chimp taunts. It was coincidence that he posted a photograph of a wealthy couple leaving a hospital holding the hands of a monkey .

Alan Sugar should have been sacked .... but just because one racist has not been dealt with doesn't mean another should get away with it.

I don't understand racism. We are all the same underneath. Why can't people see that? I can't imagine what Danny Baker was thinking - I suppose he thought he was being clever and witty, but he just showed himself up as being stupid and unthinking.

SirChenjin I completely agree - plus you forgot the caption DB put underneath thereby totally linking it to the Royal baby.

I wonder though why Alan Sugar hasn’t been sacked from the beeb?

And why Clarkson was a repeat offender until even he was sacked.

Worth more money re viewing figures?

Let's leave instincts to one side for a moment and weigh up the evidence Gone in very simple terms.

Man who in a very multicultural society + a strong affiliation to a football team with many black players + a good grasp of current affairs as a result of working in a worldwide media organisation + a desire to make people laugh by posting a photo of a couple holding the hands of chimp dress to represent M (a black woman), H and the new baby.

Versus

He was just a stupid man, he didn't mean any harm

Number one looks like it would stand up in a court of law (or a bookies, depending on your preference).

No - do you? as you seem so intent on defending him

I guess your instincts are different to mine.

that was to Beckett

Ok. I just think you have to decide whether he put the tweet up through stupidity, not realising how it would be taken, or whether it was simple racism. You obviously think it was the latter.

I wonder how you can be sure. Do you know him personally?

One of the last working class people employed by the BBC?

Rubbish

Gonegirl Lack of brain cells does not preclude someone from being racist - which he is

There is definitely racism to be seen in the picture and tweet, if you look for it. There is also micky taking of royals and the way they dress themselves and their children, to be seen.

You have to decide for yourself which was DB's intention.

Commonsense and instinct tells me it was the latter.

trisher "one of the last working class people employed by the Beeb". That surprises me. I don't know what class the BBC employs but there are some quite difficult to understand accents and some very poor grammar on air. There is a lack of clarity in some broadcasters comments which makes it appear they are not well educated.

crustal you said "It isn’t the point that some white people don't see the racism in the picture, it’s about black people living the racism on a daily basis." I think that puts the emphasis too far. I have good non-white friends who do not experience any racism 'on a daily basis' and who don't go looking for it. One has expressly told me they have never met any racism in their life. I don't think all black people do experience racism and don't think that makes me a racist. I have twice experienced racism and I am not black.

Danny Baker was possibly one of the last working class people employed by the Beeb. He Tweeted an image without thinking too much about what he was doing, perhaps he really isn't interested in who the second son of the heir to the throne has married, and perhaps he hadn't taken in that this person was of mixed race, perhaps he has better things to occupy his time with than the current tabloid obsession with royalty. But hey whilst we have politicians who write about women looking like letter boxes, UKIP and Tommy Robinson condemning Islam, and the Conservative party Chair refusing to investigate racism www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/07/tory-chairman-accused-of-repeatedly-ignoring-racism-complaints-brandon-lewis
(including calling someone an "orang-utan")
let's all get het up about a withdrawn Tweet it is easier after all

Beckett you say "only his lack of brain cells"

Then you agree that the tweet was ill thought out, but not necessarily meant to be racist?

I think the majority of people (not just on GN) find his tweet offensive. It doesn't matter if they are left wing, right wing, centerist or of no political view at all. The tweet was offensive - his political affiliation has absolutely nothing to do with it, only his lack of brain cells.

I can read and I read this.

I agree Ellan, and think that very left wing people simply do not care if the ‘victims’ are Royal or wealth

I don't care if these are your views lemon but stop trying to wriggle out of them.

Obviously your judgement of people’s characters doesn’t go very deep just as long as people are smiley towards you they are lovely people Great

Very true and it extends to so called politicians .

A totally unbelievable disgusting racist comment.
What is wrong with this man.
Made me feel sick.

Sparklefizz

Danny Baker is famously left wing which goes to show the bleeding obvious that there’s racist idiots far left and far right wing.

But that’s not news to anyone surely.

Personally I find his responses and excuses actually worse than the tweet.