Racism Row on Celebrity Big Brother

All I have heard about on the news this week is the ongoing saga about Celebrity Big Brother. On the BBC radio in the morning, on the television news, on every tabloid headline. Until this week, I didn't know a thing about the show itself other than it is yet another boring reality thing.

I guess the gist of what is going on is that Jade Goody, one of the people on the show who's claim to fame is being on the regular Big Brother, supposedly made some racist comments to Shetty, a Bollywood super star who is also on the show. The local broadcasting authority has had a record number of complaints, Gordon Brown has had to deal with it during his visit to India this week, and in the meantime, the ratings for the show have skyrocketed - making people speculate that it is just a big publicity grab.

Whatever is really behind it or whether it is racism or not, it got brought a bit closer to home for me when a random guy got in my face about it when I was waiting to use the ATM the other day. He stopped on the street, mumbled something incoherent at me, then told me that in reality, Indians are the superior race.

I'm not sure what bothered me more - that he thought I was racist or that he thought I watched Celebrity Big Brother.