Ignore this part, it turns out she was quoting Stella - Would you Adam 'n' Eve it?

To me, that's the equivalent of saying something like "I've got feet colder than James Nesbitt." or "He's breaking bad so much, even Walter White would be horrified." It was just a cultural reference using a play on words relating to the show.

I'm just surprised they didn't issue the apology/warning before the show aired like they do about everything else to protect the sensitivities of their precious little snowflake viewers.

Another vicar Billy with nothing to do but hang around the pub all day. I wonder how many pints he'd had when he made that statement. Where do we find such characters. It would be more welcome if ITV apologized for the quality of the story lines of late. I guess the vicar isn't interested in our exposure to horseshit on a daily basis. If there's a lesson or two to be learned here it's one, if you think it could be racist it probably is, and two, all vicars to be banned from pubs so they don't make fools of themselves when being called upon to give an opinion.

We now live in a world of professionally offended

Idiots, they'd have got soot out of a stone before they got an apology out of my gob. If I were Corrie/ITV I'd have told them to sit on it and rotate!

I really couldn't disagree more! If you think something 'could' be racist but are apparently not sure and have to discuss it endlessly on social media to establish whether you should think it is or not..............then it almost certainly isn't.

Agree. I understand why they have done it, its the easy way out but I still wish they hadn't.

I never really paid attention. I know the song but am not an Elvis fan, so its a song that washes over me, without me thinking about the lyrics.

I just read them and all I am getting is a story of extreme poverty in Chicago. I have been to Chicago but still find I don't have any strong cultural references with which to interpret the lyric.

In my opinion racism is a question of intent and not of lexicography.

Maybe that is the case in the UK but like I said it would be interpreted completely different in the US. Words have different meanings in different countries, just think about it, you all call cigarettes fags and that is a gay slur here or what we consider dinner you guys call tea.

Well note quite Dinner and tea are different things here too. SImilar time of day but different content I suppose is the distinction. You are right about fags though. Its quite acceptable to smoke them here. In the States I expect that would be a crime and an outrage.

When I said think I meant before you say something, If you question yourself that it could be racist it probably is. Does that make sense? Your post has given me food for thought.

Im Black and i didn't find that offensive at all

So damaging when something as 100% non racist as this is given 'airtime' because it gives the 'not racism again' brigade a valid excuse to moan,sound weary and generally discredit ANY discussion or mention of genuine racism.Babies end up being thrown out with the bath water.Hugely damaging.

As has been said anyone who sees racism in this needs to get a grip.

So absolutely non racist is it that it makes me think that something like the shit-stirring Daily Fail have deliberately concocted it to cause a fuss.

By my terms of racist no, Offensive...maybe to some. But what really i did not get is that line does not make sense for character like Eva. It would of sounded like something a character in Eastenders would say.

And while i understand the reason why some people was miffed i have a feeling that the large majority of people on social media that was "complaining" don't watch the show and also media looking to create issues between people....again.

To be fair Stella was in EE first

As the programme is made,set and shown mainly in the UK it makes sense to use English words.
The Canadians haven't objected as far as I know but they have very few 'ghetto' ( your interpretation) areas.

Sort of, but for me, racism hits you straight in the face - if it's such a tenuous connection that you have to question whether it is or isn't, then that's probably because there was no intent - the crucial factor.

Of course it doesn't help that the definition of racism appears these days to have been very much widened by our now ridiculously overly PC society, to the extent that white people are barely allowed to even mention black people in conversation without being accused, at very least, of 'casual racism'. It's all about intent, and well worth remembering the actual definition of racism :

"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior."

Anybody think any of that relates even remotely to poor dumb Eva's comment?

I mean this is truly ridiculous but, if Ofcom do investigate, they'll see that the joke hinges on the dual use of the word 'Roots.' Investigation over, surely?

I thought it was a clever line.

Me too & clever the way Eva qualified I with saying, "Haven't a clue what that means it were summat me Mum used to say!!"

Those whole Salon scenes with the three actresses were excellent in both writing & acting for me!!

Exactly!!!

The line had no ties to race, so I don't understand how anyone could be upset by it.

Is simply referencing something that happened to involve a black person racist now, no matter the context? That's absolutely insane and I think people really need to get a grip on reality.

Words fail me regarding this.

The PC brigade are hell bent on destroying society.
Damn them all, Damn them all to hell, as Charlton Heston once said!

I wasn't offended as I'm not a politically correct snowflake, but I did think it didn't make sense.