President Obama Asked to Block BBC Show âTop Gearâ That Allegedly Used Racist Term
May 5, 2014 | 04:29AM PT
by Leo Barraclough
LONDON â President Obama has been asked to consider blocking broadcast in the U.S. of BBC motoring show âTop Gearâ after its star, Jeremy Clarkson, was accused of allegedly using racist language.
A firm of lawyers, Equal Justice, is to write to Obama and the ambassadors of more than 200 countries in which âTop Gearâ airs to ask them to consider the evidence, and then decide if the series should continue to be broadcast in their countries, the Guardian has reported.
The firm was referring to footage from the show in which the nursery rhyme âeeny, meeny, miny, moâ was recited, and in which it has been alleged the n-word was used. The footage was not broadcast, but the Daily Mirror has put the footage on its website. Clarkson claims he mumbled something that sounds like the offending word, but not the word itself.
Lawrence Davies, director of Equal Justice, said: âClarkson claimed he âdid everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the program that was transmittedâ ⦠The obvious thing that any non-racist would have done is to not use the rhyme at all or failing that to simply substitute another word such as âtigerâ in the take. There was never any need to mumble the N-word repeatedly.â
Davies added that the BBC should have sacked Clarkson and his team for alleged âgross misconduct,â but wonât because âthey are making money out of the show.â
It is not the first time the show has been accused of using racist language.
Equal Justice repped Indian-born actress Somi Guha when she filed a complaint to the BBC about âTop Gearâ after Clarkson used the word âslopeâ when referring to an Asian man.
The firm also repped Iris de la Torre, who complained about the use of racial stereotypes in an episode about Mexican vehicles.
https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/ba...r-that-allegedly-used-racist-term-1201171776/
May 5, 2014 | 04:29AM PT
by Leo Barraclough
LONDON â President Obama has been asked to consider blocking broadcast in the U.S. of BBC motoring show âTop Gearâ after its star, Jeremy Clarkson, was accused of allegedly using racist language.
A firm of lawyers, Equal Justice, is to write to Obama and the ambassadors of more than 200 countries in which âTop Gearâ airs to ask them to consider the evidence, and then decide if the series should continue to be broadcast in their countries, the Guardian has reported.
The firm was referring to footage from the show in which the nursery rhyme âeeny, meeny, miny, moâ was recited, and in which it has been alleged the n-word was used. The footage was not broadcast, but the Daily Mirror has put the footage on its website. Clarkson claims he mumbled something that sounds like the offending word, but not the word itself.
Lawrence Davies, director of Equal Justice, said: âClarkson claimed he âdid everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the program that was transmittedâ ⦠The obvious thing that any non-racist would have done is to not use the rhyme at all or failing that to simply substitute another word such as âtigerâ in the take. There was never any need to mumble the N-word repeatedly.â
Davies added that the BBC should have sacked Clarkson and his team for alleged âgross misconduct,â but wonât because âthey are making money out of the show.â
It is not the first time the show has been accused of using racist language.
Equal Justice repped Indian-born actress Somi Guha when she filed a complaint to the BBC about âTop Gearâ after Clarkson used the word âslopeâ when referring to an Asian man.
The firm also repped Iris de la Torre, who complained about the use of racial stereotypes in an episode about Mexican vehicles.
https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/ba...r-that-allegedly-used-racist-term-1201171776/
