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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    I have posted the article as I sent it to WCM, that is, unedited, in uk.sport.cricket with a subject heading of Cricket Web - Racial slur or misunderstanding? Go to https://groups.google.com/group/uk.sport.cricket/topics?hl=en
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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    Yes it is wonderful, vindicating stuff, viz: Tony Lewis "Thank you so much for writing. I really enjoyed your letter which contained so many good points." Matthew Engel "Thank you for your Interesting letter re cricketing nationalities" Jim Swanton "Thank you for your forceful and...
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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    I see that you are one of those who mistakes abuse for argument. Not only Frith but all the letter writers whose letters I have posted thought my arguments had merit. They were responding to the ideas I later placed in Is it in the blood? Why don't you write to Frith and all the letter...
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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    Breach of confidence is not a complaint any of the letter writers could meaningfully make. They all happily worked for newspapers or broadcasters which regularly publish without the author's permission emails, letters and other documents, eg, records of politicians' expenses. Much of this...
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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    Firth indubitably lied Frith indubitably lied. He wrote this to me in March 1994: "Let me just assure you that I was one of the earliest to feel a sense of unease at the number of foreign players piling into the England XI. It's hard to separate oneself from the personal side of it all...
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    Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?

    The letters below show the large amount of private support in the media and cricket administration I had for the views expressed in my 1996 WCM article, Is it in the blood? I have more but most are handwritten and I cannot scan them in - they include letters from Gower, Alec Bedser...

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