Kevin Blackystone puts it better than anyone else in his article in teh Dallas Morning News:
"It has been easy for some observers to immediately criticize Zidane for losing his cool, because his reaction to whatever happened was clearly a flagrant act. But where is the criticism now of Materazzi, who hasn't yet apologized for the insult he admitted he used?
And why is it so difficult for so many to understand that some words and phrases can be so hurtful as to inspire what appear to be unimaginable acts like Zidane's? They would do themselves well to review Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy's etymology Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word to learn that courts of law in this country have ruled that there are indeed what we call "fighting words."
They are, as Kennedy cited from a 1942 court case, "certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include ... insulting or 'fighting' words – those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
Or, in this latest case, a head-butt.
And if there is anything that can kill the so-called beautiful game of soccer that is a favorite in most of the world – from Europe to Africa and across the sea to the Caribbean and South and Central America – it is the abject ugliness of racism.
The good news is that the sport knows it. The bad news is that it is having a dickens of a time stamping it out.
A "Say No to Racism" campaign, which FIFA unveiled for the World Cup just ended, isn't enough, however. It really needs to level the sanctions it unveiled just before the competition commenced if, in fact, this incident resulted from a breach of basic respect for fellow man."
Zizou says he is sorry and he should not have done what he did. However I feel sorry for the Italian who will have to answer to God as well regarding his remarks.
We should all pray for the peace in Jerusalem and the rest of the World.
Praise Jah-God
Anguile

Posted by Anguile
at 5:39 PM CDT