Peter Williams: What did he say?

How can a racist slur be a racist slur if we're not told what was said?

There’s been quite the public spat here in the south about the chair of the Strath Taieri Community Board, a very rural part of the Dunedin City Council area.

The man’s name is Barry Williams and at some stage in recent weeks he made a supposedly racist statement to a member of the public in a pub.