Question Time George The Poet

[SparklyKid]

Words fail me, not quite really, I do not want to destroy the swear filter.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-question-time-audience-member-13365556

[anotheoldgit]

Makes one wonder why they remain in the 'white man's' world, if they get such a raw deal.

[mushroom25]

here's reginald d hunter saying basically the same thing:-

[ToraToraTora]

the guy in the audience is bang on, we are one of the most tolerant nations on earth.

[jackthehat]

LoL...
"We are not racist....not at all....we're a very tolerant nation..." say all the white folks.
"Erm that's not strictly true" says a person who may have received or witnessed racism or racist attitudes.
"Shut up you.....you there with that big chip on your shoulder. You wouldn't get any bother if you just kept quiet and knew your place...." say many contributors to AB.

[Spicerack]

Aw, I was just going to say that, jack. Good post, for once.

[Old_Geezer]

One didn't claim zero racism, but low racism compared to other countries. That seems to have been missed.

"So I didn't get stopped by police sitting outside my mum's house earlier this year?"

Noting the fact that if one is sitting one can't be stopped as one is already stopped, and considering the rest of the sarcastic statement; can the police not interact with dark skinned folk without it being racism, then ? Are dark skinned folk untouchable ? Sounds like playing the card to prevent any contrary opinion to me.

[ummmm]

No I don't think that's true OG. I watched an interview with the brother of a well known disabled athlete (I can't remember his name)he drove a BMW, he's an accountant, and he'd been stopped four times in as many months.

I've been stopped once since I started driving and that's because the policeman (on a bike) couldn't see my tax disc as I passed him.

[Old_Geezer]

Even so, worst case, it says more about the police and how darker skinned folk seem to them as a group (justified or not), than about society in general.

[Mamyalynne]

George was perhaps a bit theatrical in response, but hey it's the TV. It can however be infuriating to be told that something that has happened to you and many others is as rare or exceptional as hen's teeth when you know different.

I admire the young man in one respect, being bold enough to state what I've no doubt he believes to be true.

[AuntLydia]

I know exactly what the young man in the audience means. Britain is a tolerant nation,one of the most tolerant in Europe I would think.

Non white citizens of the Uk are far too quick to play the racist card for every little thing that happens to them, from being not served first in a pub to not getting a job. Things that a white person would shrug at ,feel a bit miffed or disappointed, all of a sudden its 'racism!!'
Some person pushes in front of me in a queue I'm annoyed, someone pushes in front of a non caucasian and suddenly its a racist attack. And note I choose my words carefully, because now it's apparently racist to call a black person 'coloured' or an Indian person Pakistani.

The Uk has bent over backwards to try and include people from all races and creeds and it seems all they do is complain how they are treated. There are exceptions, people will be nasty and call people names but I think UK people, on the whole,are tolerant. As for stopping young black men in some places, well hello, if 75% of the community are Black and 50% of the crime done by blacks then of course they are going to get stopped. I'm sure my opinions will get a hugely negative response but frankly I'm sick of white people having to walk on eggshells in their own communities. For me it's not a colour thing at all, I feel the same way about 'Travellers' that are above the Law who also claim Racism when moved on when they park their mobiles illegally.

[ummmm]

Why would you call an Indian person a Pakistani when they aren't? That's just ignorant.

[kvalidir]

Indians and Pakistanis are two entirely different nationalitites, with quite a history to that too, and 'coloured' is just obviously offensive given it's historic useage etc.

[AuntLydia]

Do you know something, I knew as soon as I wrote that someone would come on and point it out, so I left it.
Bit like when someone can't argue an opinion so point out their spelling mistakes.

[ToraToraTora]

BA for auntlydia at 14:39. "well hello, if 75% of the community are Black and 50% of the crime done by blacks then of course they are going to get stopped. " - prepare to be berated for pointing out the inescapable logic of the situation. TROB will be pebble dashing their screens with South African peace porridge as we speak but you are correct. If poet George engaged brain for a nano second he'd ask himself, how, if we are so racist, that we allow him on to a prominent TV show to berate us in our own country. That sounds like true tolerance to me.

[ToraToraTora]

auntlydia at 14:50: That's what they do when you've just tanned their Aprils on prime time TV! Take it as a compliment.

[ummmm]

Wouldn't that all depend on what area you're patrolling?

[AuntLydia]

kval //and 'coloured' is just obviously offensive given it's historic usage etc./

you have read (probably biased) reports about this, I have lived it. When I was younger it was considered very rude to call someone Black. You referred to them as 'coloured gentlemen/lady' This was not offensive and was accepted by black people. In fact if I called someone a 'black man' I would have been corrected as being impolite and made to apologize.
So where you get your 'offence' from beats me.

[SparklyKid]

Well said AL.

[jourdain2]

My son-in-law, when in early 20s, worked for a bank. He worked late one night so had the keys. He is a car nut so drove a sporty model and had been given a personalised number-plate for his 21st birthday. On his way home an unmarked police car began following him. S-I-L drove faster, the following car kept up so he drove very fast to try to shake off what he thought could be bank robbers, ending up a main police station, where things were sorted out.

He's a blue-eyed blond. The police were following because they were suspicious and wanted to question him - they are supposed to do that. Nothing to do with race. This has all gone far too far.

By the way, it's not all that long ago that India included Pakistan as part of the country - so quite hard to tell the difference of inhabitants by sight.