Jail for a racist tweet

[Kasz216]

Lostplanet22 said:

Kasz216 said:
Seems excessive... especially since if you jailed all the racists in relation to football there would be well... a LOT.

Wasn't there a french politician a while back who was complaining because most of the french team was black?

Doesn't sound that offensive depends what kind of word he used in french for 'black'..

Curious what this guy said though and i guess they made an example of him and that is something I can't disagree with.  

To be fair I think it happened back in 2007 now that I think about it.  There was a whole big story about when Obama was elected just how shockingly racist a lot of the coverage and commentary was and in general a primer about how a lot of europeon comments on race even by leaders would shock americans.

Pretty sure this was the incident.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/175696

 

In the US people get the hell beat out of them for using terms that are sometimes racist in a non-racist way.