Thought Police Have Now Branded Me As A Racist Too- Mail On Sunday Newspaper- Exclusive News Feature- ***June 2011***

Former councillor Shirley Brown contacted our publicist  Jonathan Hartley after fiinding herself in the middle of a media storm when she was accused of racism.

Jonathan set her up with an indepth interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper for her to tell the true story.

The newspaper ran the story across two pages giving Shirley the chance to put the record straight.

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The 'coconut' hate crime investigation that shows NOBODY can escape Britain's Thought Police

She heard her name and, looking up, recognised an Asian woman she'd met through her voluntary work in the local community.

The word is used as slang to describe someone who is believed to be betraying their ethnic roots by pandering to white opinion – referring to a coconut being brown on the outside but white on the inside.

But what she still cannot comprehend is the lengths to which the legal system was prepared to go to ensure that she was punished.

'When Jay spoke against it, I was upset,' says Shirley. 'She said that she didn't receive any special help when she moved here, and didn't need it, but just got on with things. I was shocked. I thought that as an immigrant herself she would have had more empathy with other ethnic minorities and more understanding of the issues that they're facing.

'Of course I shouldn't have used that word, but to me it meant that she was denying her cultural roots, rather than anything racial. It wasn't about the colour of her skin, or about her behaving in a white way.'

'I breathed a sigh of relief and thought the incident was over,' says Shirley. 'It had been very stressful, but I thought I could put it behind me. When I received a call that November from the police saying I was being investigated, I couldn't believe it. I didn't understand it at all. There was no need to take it that far when I'd already apologised.'

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