Jamila A, a 22-year-old black student, was charged under the Communications Act 2003 for using the N-word in a tweet about footballer Alexander Isak. Her legal team argued that the term is common in African American vernacular. The case against her, initiated by a data monitoring organization, prompted outrage when the Crown Prosecution Service eventually dropped it due to lack of evidence. Jamila expressed concern over the implications of prosecuting a black person for using the term in a cultural context, highlighting perceived inconsistencies in enforcement of hate speech laws.
I was trying to rack my brain to think of what could I possibly have said that anybody could have considered as racist. Then I went to the station, saw the tweet, and thought: are they being for real?
I can go outside right now and there's a million people who listen to rap songs that have the N-word in there and they sing along to it but nothing will ever happen to them.
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