Let's face it, folks, Belfast isn't really the capital of anything - and I speak as citizen. We have a long way to go on the racist front before we could catch upwith places like London or Bolton. Or Paris and Berlin for that matter.

There certainly is racism and it does seem to be on the increase. And the vast majority of it originates from the loyalist side of the community. To pretend otherwise reqires either serious ignorance or serious intellectual dishonesty.

I am not for a second claiming that no RC or nationalist was ever a racist. But it will say this; if everyone in the world had the same attitude to other cultures and ethnic groups as the republican movement there would be no racism.