Do You Believe This Is Fair Treatment? 

James H. Reeve has been pilloried for maintaining his anti-racist stance on the basis of complaints from colleagues
He has seen no evidence of complaints from listeners
The comments he has received have been entirely in his favour
The interviewee with whom he had the original discussion saw no reason to complain, and expressed concern at hearing of what happened subsequently
Karen Hannah did not make proper enquiries until after she and Martin Brooks confronted James, and in the light of them decided to misrepresent the events which took place.
They deny that the meeting was a disciplinary matter, yet demanded a "defence", and then said that they had never intended to take any action 
James did not receive the benefit of representation, to which he was entitled under the the terms of his status at the BBC
Karen Hannah, and perhaps others, have presented a distorted and falsified account of the case on numerous occasions to a variety of people 
James has never been allowed to face his accusers or been invited to take part in a formal investigation
No details of any investigation which may have been conducted have been shown to James
There is evidence to suggest that there has been a campaign, tacit or otherwise, to discredit James after his departure from the Station. 

Since these events took place, the state of race relations in Britain has been revealed as never before: the Stephen Lawrence case and the MacPherson Report; institutional racism in industry and public services from the Metropolitan Police to the NHS; race riots in Oldham, Burnley, Bradford, Stoke and elsewhere; far-right parties gaining electoral support; the link between a Conservative activist and the BNP; violence against refugees and asylum-seekers; xenophobic headlines in national newspapers.

Yet James H. Reeve, one of Britain's foremost anti-racist broadcasters, has been condemned by the BBC for no reason that they can show other than complaints from people who were not only his colleagues but, in his view, on the same side in the struggle for racial understanding.

BBC managers, whose wages are paid by the public, have concealed their initial ineptitude and misjudgement behind a screen of deceit and bureaucracy. 

Do you believe that James H. Reeve has been treated "properly and fairly"?

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