Anyone who saw that short snippet of the speech read by Anthony Joshua in Cassiobury Park on Saturday might have been tempted to believe he was a racist himself.

But then, anyone who sees a short snippet of anything on the internet next to some sensational claims should know they have to look a bit further.

The speech was written by 'Fatal Reece' - someone who could not be there, whom Joshua said he knew.

It's true those lines in isolation - "show them where it hurts, abstain from spending your money in their shops and economies" - don't sound good. It does not help that it is vague who "they" are - white people or just racists.

The 'superior black race' Instagram spat that Joshua had with another boxer a few years ago will not have been forgotten, although Joshua's team afterwards insisted his account had been hacked.

But watch the full video or read the text of Saturday's speech and there are no racist or threatening overtones. It's the AJ we know, good humoured and open. The atmosphere of the march was warm and friendly. And yes, there should have been better social distancing.

The backlash came in the form of thousands of comments on our website and on our Facebook page.

Some commenters asked why Joshua didn't condemn knife and gang crime. That was in the speech. Others asked why black people had not done better economically. That was in there too.

After the speech, Joshua said he wanted to invest in Watford. How we need people willing to do that at a time like this.

Many in the comments section questioned why black lives should matter when all lives matter.

The question is dishonest. It is part of an agenda that tries to pretend that racism is a solved problem and blame BAME people for problems they face. It tries to portray those who protest as extremists and racists themselves.

Of course all lives matter, but it is not racist to say black lives matter when a disproportionate number of black people still die in police custody, even here in the UK.

It is not racist to want to see statues of people who profited from shipping your ancestors into slavery taken down. Who really wants to walk underneath a monument to somebody whose deeds all right-thinking people now find repugnant?

We do not erase our history by taking these statues down and putting them in museums or putting new plaques underneath them, we come to terms with and re-evaluate our history.

In some cases there are complex issues. Some of these people did good deeds as well as bad. There needs to be a full and public debate about them.

But pretending there is not a problem and denying there is a need for a debate only shuts down discussion.

Racism still exists and thrives on division, on people not listening to each other.

It was saddening to see the number of people trying to advance racist views in our comment section and simply shout down views they disagreed with.

The overall effect was of two sets of people screaming at each other. Most readers would just look away.

We are not able to individually monitor these comments - there are simply too many - but we will not tolerate racism or bigotry on our sites.

We have been removing and will continue to take down any that are reported to us.

So let us know about comments that cross the line - and remember not to believe everything you read on the internet.