If his son was harboring racist thoughts, the father said, no one knew it.

If we consider ourselves people of faith, we ought to cry out to the Lord and confront our own racist thoughts and actions.

(Was this a racist thought?)

Awful, racist thoughts and words rose in his throat like nausea, and then, moments later, a strange image of Mr Malik embracing him.

The Britons Publishing Society, however, had a much more lasting effect on British racist thought.

"There wouldn't have been a racist thought in our simple-minded minds," he says.

Was he, demanded the judicial officer hearing the case, "having racist thoughts" at the time.

"People can have racist thoughts and still effectively manage a diverse work force," Mr. Thomas now says.

He explained, "... making this Czech garbage into Germans must give way to methods based on racist thought".