Al, This is the post you placed:

"People in my home county Lincolnshire are very. upset at the influx of Eastern Europeans, and the lawlessness they have bought to towns like Boston. As keith says - its very easy if you live faraway from a problem to get sniffy and dismiss what other people are going through.
I suppose i am a comfortable lefty these days. boston was an insular sort of town - maybe the awakening was long overdue. but i think its been a rough passage for boston people. ! stood on boston green. an old school friend, who nowadays runs a quid shop was standing next to me.. Somme Eastern european looters ran out of his shop with things they'd nicked. i sad - why don't you call the police? no point Al, he said. nothing to be done there. my old man was a cop in boston. god knows what he would have made of it"

In the post you PRESUMED the looters were eastern European, you did not KNOW they were and that is the bit that matters. That is the bit that caused offense.

Now as I said yesterday I would really suggest you stop mentioning the subject. Time to move on.