Like the mental illness taboo explored in last week’s post, racism is another topic we’d often prefer to sweep under the rug. Thanks to a shocking half-hour documentary which aired Monday night on BBC Panorama, doing so has become all but impossible. At least for the next several weeks, anyways. The BBC documentary, entitled Stadiums of Hate, exposes a kind of darkness I honestly didn’t think still existed (or, at the very least, not in any sort of public setting). In anticipation of the rapidly approaching UEFA Euro 2012 football championship (soccer, for those of us on the other side of … Read more »
