Another lesson in race relations from "enlightened Europeans"

The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper:
"From NICK PARKER, Chief Foreign Correspondent in Madrid -
"DECENT soccer fans fired a broadside at the sick senors of Spain last night over disgraceful racist taunts aimed at black England players."

It is indeed regrettable that racist epithets were shouted by Spanish fans at England during a recent "friendly" match in Madrid. But, it should also remind us not to take European criticism of US race relations as if they were somehow superior in that regard and had solved all such problems in their own back yard. Unfortunately, every country has its own unique problems of racial or ethnic antagonisms and ought to put their own house in order before presuming to speak too self-righteously to others on the subject.

One has to wonder, especially, at the capacity of England for righteous indignation when it wasn't so long ago that there were race riots in Britain and some countries on the continent were taking steps to keep British soccer fans from crossing the Channel because of rampant hooliganism in the stands.