Racial Prejudice - what is it ?

[whiffey]

I have been listening to a BBC TV News report, about a questionnaire on racial prejudice. The message I repeatedly get is "Anything ethnic minority is good, and how dare anybody not agree !"

So, if I say "I observe that the huge majority of gun crimes and stabbings in London are perpetrated by the black community on each other" (god how I hate that word "community"), does that make me racist ? prejudiced ?

Why is it that people who look different, speak differently, behave differently, frequently simply don't get on with each other ?

If we think we have problems, look at Gaza ! Just another demonstration of how different people are from country to country, race to race, and culture to culture.

I accept and appreciate why some people don't like others, and I am tired of the cringing attempts by societal tree-huggers to make everybody the same when they are not.

[ELVIS68]

Psssstt...this should be in People and Places

[whiffey]

Yes, but if I put it there, or in Society and Culture, it wouldn't get any Answers, and that's all that counts on here.

[curlyperm]

thats why when i posted my Q in Business Section i popped a little message to the peeps on B & S so i didnt have to wait til Christmas for a reply!
I wouldnt say you were racist OR prejudiced, there are a lot of people who dont like other people for whatever reason, it when you bring their colour, or culture into the critiscm that it turns into racism, errr was gonna give you an Ex but better not i will get b*llocked, what i mean is you can say ' I dont like that girl with brown hair' thats ok but you try saying ' i dont like that black girl/guy etc and somebody somewhere will be down on you like a ton of bricks, what i object to is those people who say ' Oh i cant be racist.........some of my best friends are black!........' what a load of tosh sorry thats not a very good answer, but hey..........an answer nonetheless lol

[raysparx1]

I think the problem now whiffey is that the powers that be are scared of upsetting "Minorities" years ago the police could stop and search under what they callled "The suss law" I was often stopped and searched because i was working in posh areas and I was carrying a tool bag, so maybe I looked a bit "suss" but now if somebody black is stooped because they look "suss" it is Rascist, an example of how stupid it is, and this is true, a man calls a pakistani a "****" he is taken to court fined and gets 180 hours community service, months later, the pakistani man sees said man and mockingly says Hello taffy, "taffy" calls a local bobby and tells him he is being racially abused, the policemans reply, was and i quote, "Grow up" Britain is a multi race country, but in no time at all we, the british will be, " The ethnic minority"

[raysparx1]

Well even ab is at it, lol "p a k i " is starred out " Taffy" isn't, bloody stupid

[whiffey]

curlyperm I agree.

I observe that most if not all of the shootings and stabbings going on in my neighbourhood are down to one "community". Yet if I raise a voice in protest - and mention the ethnic group - I will be labelled racist.

Britain is going to become what Britain deserves to become, a ridiculous hotch-potch of cultures that can't mix by nature but have to mix by law (except for those who are exempted from mixing).

[whiffey]

ray, you articulated it better than me. That is a fine example of the bloody mess Britain is in, and sinking deeper into the mire of political correctness.

We shall yet see Gordon Brown wearing the veil.

[Lonnie]

Not wishing to put too much of a damper on it, if you really want to Know what this country will become, take a look at Yugoslavia a couple of years ago.

[naomi24]

The government's problem is that whilst they can legislate to stop people speaking their own minds, they haven't discovered a way to stop people thinking their own thoughts - yet!

[raysparx1]

thank you whiffey, as for what lonnie says, it could well be like that, i am of an age that can remember the "Notting hill riots" in the late 1950s, I lived in the middle of it, I am not advocating anarchy, but people will only tolerate so much, the worm can and quite often does turn, i hope never to see again things I saw as a youngster, but fear for the future, I moved from london 27 years ago, because of what it was becoming, some things are fine, the west indians have integrated and are lovely people, lets hope the scales of justice do not swing to much one way, maybe the scales on top of the old bailey were put on to be deliberately tilted one way,

[dot.hawkes]

I wonder why there is not a report option for 'racist remark' on this site?

[miffy63]

I'd just like to say that I think everything you say is true. I live in a very 'white' village in the South of England and whenever I see a black person I immediately feel, in some way, threatened.
I grew up in South london and had many black friends, in fact I barely noticed their colour. I hate the way I feel now because experience tells me that a white is just as likely to commit a crime. Nearby is a hotel that employs Asians and even though I'm nowhere near London I, again, feel threatened by their presence. The hotel also employs Polish and other europeans but they don't worry me.
I feel very concerned for this country I love so much, what can be done to save it?

[naomi24]

Colour is not the problem - the problem is the differences in culture - and no matter how many laws are passed, some cultures will never see eye to eye.

[turkey154]

i must admit that i feel the same as you whiffey...why is it that if white people say anything about an ethnic minority whether it be black or asian, that we are being racist and that we should be punished!
but you very rarely hear of these minorities being punished for being racist against white people, and it happens!, just look at the poor white south africans.
i think nowadays everything has become TOO politically correct and it annoys me so much. we should be able to live our lives how we feel, when did free speech and though become a thing of the past?

the funny thing is, my step dad is ghanian (a small country in africa) and i said to him, what does he terms to be racist against him and he said it would take alot for him to feel like someone was being racist to him. i just think that someone we are making it too easy for the ethnic minorities to cry 'racism'.

[redhead23]

vote bnp stop being politically correct

[whiffey]

Channel 4, Oh dear, here we go, yet another broadcast about Islam laak, no wot I mean laak, the true meanin of Islam laak, no wot I mean, it merely augurs the future.

Different cultures do not mix, simple fact, that is why they are different cultures in the first place.