The N-word is a repellent insult - but so is the belief that white people are innately racist, writes state secondary assistant principal CALVIN ROBINSON .
CALVIN ROBINSON: As a mixed-race man, I believe that this was honourable and accurate reporting by a journalist who was using the word in a descriptive manner to highlight the horrendous nature of the attack. Care and diligence were taken. Fiona Lamdin is pictured interviewing K-Dogg for her report, while K-Dogg is pictured right with his sister after the attack. However, after more than 18,500 complaints to the BBC, director-general Tony Hall released a statement accepting offence may have been caused. He, too, pointed out that the victim's family had 'asked us specifically to show the photos of this man's injuries and were also determined we should report the racist language, in full, alleged to have been spoken by the occupants of the car.' This was emphatically not a case of a journalist carelessly blurting out the N-word which, quite rightly, should be seldom used because it is racially incendiary. It was a solemn report delivered with integrity and professionalism.
