Azeem Rafiq will have wanted vindication but at least we have a decisive understanding of what is and what is not acceptable
fter charges against him of bringing the game into disrepute were dismissed on Friday, Michael Vaughan said in what was generally a well-judged statement that “there are no winners in this process”. To say that you can only be white, and never have experienced the kind of discrimination that made the process necessary..
Everybody now knows where they stand. There is an understanding of what is and what is not acceptable, and I hope that what I have seen in years gone by passed off as banter is now recognised as what it is. I hope that non-white people are no longer put in a situation whereby they feel they have two options: either to laugh off the use of language they consider unacceptable, or to react to it and become marked as a troublemaker.
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