During the last few months there have been a number of attacks on Asians living in the predominantly Asian Justmadethisup area of London.
Police have so far made several arrests, and several of the offenders detained have been identified as members of a loose knit far right group, but the attacks have continued.
In all cases where a description of the attacker has been provided, even when no arrest has been made, the attacker/s are described as white males.
Police and support officers have reassured the local community that they are tackling this seriously, and have placed several high visibility patrols on the streets of Justmadethisup in order to deter future attacks.
Asian community leaders have been muted in their response, with some attacking the police for failing to prevent the attacks from continuing, and urging tougher action to halt these attacks on their community.
A number of white males have reported being stopped and questioned by police for simply being in the area.
There's a giveaway in the name of the area, it's Justmadethisup to prove a point.
Would there be outcry, allegations of racism from the community were the above story true, and police attentions focused on white males? One very much doubts it.
Which brings us to Iranian student Goudarz Karimi, who was confronted by an armed response team whilst jogging in East Oxford.
Karimi was wearing a training vest, loaded with weights, and it seems a concerned member of the public called police thinking it was a suicide vest.
Given todays terrorist situation in the UK that certainly seems a legitimate concern, and one has to admit, it would certainly be hard to tell at a glance.
Officers stopped Mr Karimi, and then made him remove the vest so that it could be checked for explosives. He was then allowed to go on his way, but asked to cover the vest with his coat in order to avoid more members of the public voicing concerns.
Karimis instant response? The race card.
"I am 100 per cent sure that if I was blond with Caucasian skin type, nobody would have noticed and said anything about it. But I'm of dark skin complexion and from Iran and I'm sure that's related to it" he said.
Now, one would certainly believe, given the appearance of suicide bombers who have struck Britain, police would certainly have a justification for stopping an Asian looking male in what could well have been a suicide jacket. They had to follow up the publics concern, softly softly is little good if it had been a real suicide jacket and the wearer hit the detonate button.
Members of the public would be right to report it, surely it is better they do than shrug, think they'd be racist to say anything, and then a bomb goes off on our streets.
Perhaps those members of the public might not have phoned in if it were a white male wearing the training jacket, who knows.
Whose fault is that when it's not, for the most parts, white males who've set off suicide bombs on Britains streets or attempted to do the same?
Perhaps the public would have phoned anyway had it been a white male, the public are urged to be constantly vigilant by authorities after all
In our first, fictional instance, nobody would care that white males got stopped because of crimes committed by white males, nobody would say the police are being racist, and if they did say anything then nobody would listen.
Would the police feel the need to point out people were not stopped for ethnicity alone when the Asian residents of Justmadethisup started phoning in to report 'suspicious' white males in the area?
Why should the second, real incident be any different?
During the last few months there have been a number of attacks on Asians living in the predominantly Asian Justmadethisup area of London.
