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Racism – I tell you what it is, how it’s done and where you can get some. Plus how to install it in your car. Actually none of that is true…. well most of it’s not true. But there will be a bit of race in this discourse, and I don’t mean on the track… or the road for that matter.
Year-end; time to reflect, react and contemplate. A tough 12 months, that’s for sure. Didn’t go to plan, that too an understatement. But did it beat me? Nearly. Did it scar me? Definitely. Don’t hesitate to hit play on the video below – my words, SUNO’s sounds. It’s something that you might relate to, it’s something that might soothe, maybe even inspire some hope. But as for reading the rest of this, if you share a state of mind as delicate as mine, best to cease now, and click away. Check out my automotive year in review instead, it’s kinda funny. It may amuse and distract. But peruse below only at your peril.
Today on Sermon we discuss racism, and what it means to different people, and their point of view. And for good measure we throw in Star Trek , Star Wars, and a Little history.
Is it some next-level stupidity or misguided bravado that compels racists to unload on a channel called ‘Brown Car Guy’? And FYI, just to be clear, it’s not the car that’s brown!
Continue reading “Why the Racism?”
So a Muslim in the UK, a Jew in America and a Christian in Holland walk into a YouTube video and… uh oh!!
The biggest automotive celebrity… in the world… is back in the headlines again, and the cause of furiously erupting controversy after he made some astonishingly vile comments about Meghan Markle in a Sun newspaper column.
Continue reading “Should we Cancel Clarkson?”
I’m the BrownCarGuy and I support Diversity in Automotive. In fact, I want to do more than that, I want to highlight it, encourage it and celebrate it! Here are some friends who also feel the same. To encourage inclusivity when it comes to the automotive sphere, I wonder if we need some new platform or event to elevate it?
If you don’t know what this is all about – you can read about it on the BBC News channel – just click here.
Thump! The sound of a government-commissioned 258-page report on racism in the UK hitting tables yesterday. Smack! The sound of a slap landing on the poker faces of the perpetrators of this piece of pernicious propaganda. Well, the slap didn’t happen, but it should have, repeatedly. It would have been deserved, repeatedly.
Continue reading “Govt Race Report Thinks Racism Doesn’t Exist – WTF?!”
A few days ago, Motoring Middle East, which is an automotive news media channel across YouTube and social media platforms, but based in Dubai, celebrated its 9th birthday. Why is that significant? Because in 2011, along with Imthishan Giado, I co-founded ‘MME’, as we came to call it.
Continue reading “From LJK Setright to BrownCarGuy”