Jack, Spleen, when someone as racially aware as Will Straw defends them, and all you have is the nonsense argument of a wholly fictious parallel with something which has been rectified, then you've lost, I'm afraid. Your case was answered long since, and with no other data to refresh it, then you're simply being contentious.

Taken more widely, the use of "racism" as a broad-brush get-out-of-jail-free card is as much racist as the behaviour it is meant to stop (as seen in the Manchester child abuse cases, I repeat). Racism remains a serious and utterly disgusting problem, and discrediting a major tool against it in this way is to nobody's benefit. You argue it was an invention of the 1960s/70s, the record shows it is far older.

Keep the charge for the things which really are racist, please.