Should Such A Virtually Unknow Person Have Been Honoured In Such A Way?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309694/John-Archer-Afro-Caribbean-elected-public-office-London-honoured-alongside-Lloyd-George-new-set-stamps.html

Many have criticised the fact that Baroness Thatcher is to receive a Military Procession funeral, I wonder what the reaction would have been if she had also been further honoured by having her image on a postage stamp, at least she would have been more fitting alongside other British famous faces, than a Mr John Archer?

[jno]

there are only two faces I recognise in that collection and really I have no idea what Peter Cushing is doing there.

Is there any particular aspect of Mr Archer's appearance that has excited your disquiet?

[FredPuli43]

Well, it's educational, aog. As a pioneer at a time when few of his colour were notable for achieving anything in this country, what's wrong with bringing him to wider notice?

[McMouse]

I received a letter with a Father Christmas stamp on it. To the best of my knowledge FC never existed.

[woofgang]

This is one of those "damned if they do/don't" things isn't it?

[woofgang]

McMouse how can you say such things? Who brings the presents if santa doesn't?

[McMouse]

Sorry woofy, how insensitive of me. Lol.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure the protest would/could raise significantly more. Once one realises the sycophants always get their way, once one has protested there is little more to gain from doing so again.

[woofgang]

does that mean you are going to shut up OG????????

[sp1814]

I've never heard of him. But thanks to this post, I've looked him up on Wikipedia.

That's a good thing really.

Oh, and I would bet a large amount of money on Thatcher being honoured with a stamp.

[Gromit]

If you wish to read about the stamps without all the Daily Mail twaddle, the Royal Mail website is far more informative.

http://shop.royalmail.com/great-britons/great-britons-stamp-set/invt/sku30000001/

I confess I had not heard of this gentle. Neither did I recognise some woman who wrote a cookbook 70 years ago, or the archealogist. The rational for this odd collection is that they are British people who have an anniversary in 2013. So they all fit, even if some are less recognisable than others.

I wonder why AOG chose the Afro Caribean gentleman as the odd one out?

[Nibble]

Must admit I hadn't heard of him either, but it gives me an opportunity to learn something of his history.

[sp1814]

By the way - without looking at the names, how many faces did everyone recognise on those stamps?

I got Vivienne Leigh, Richard Dimbleby and Peter Cushing.

Three out of ten is pretty appalling. Did anyone get less than that?

[joggerjayne]

I think it's a bit insulting to black people.

It almost smacks of "including the token black". They haven't included him because of what he achieved (he was just another mayor of a London borough). They have included him because he was black.

It seems terribly patronising to the black population. It's like patting them on the head, and saying Well done little black people, one of you became a mayor.

It seems all wrong to me.

[sp1814]

Ah...thank you Gromit. So they all have an anniversary this year.

I wonder AOG, who would you replace John Archer with, following the rule of a 2013 anniversary?

[jake-the-peg]

Norman Parkinson?

Am I just the wrong generation never to have heard of him?

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

/// Well, it's educational, aog. As a pioneer at a time when few of his colour were notable for achieving anything in this country, what's wrong with bringing him to wider notice? ///

He may well have been the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be elected into public office, but wasn't Margaret Thatcher the first British Female Prime Minister.

No this is just another piece of PC nonsense.

[Gromit]

A Thatcher stamp could prove puzzling. Which side to spit on.

[joggerjayne]

Would he have been included if he was white?

No.

So he is being treated differently because of his colour.

And the word for treating someone differently because of their colour is ... ?

Why are people so insecure that they feel the need to demonstrate their cultural diversity ostentatiously? Is it some subconscious, suppressed racist tendency?

[jno]

sausage maker, jake

http://www.waitrose.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductView-10317-10001-25375-Porkinson+original+banger+%286+per+pack%29++%28398g%29.html?storeId=10317

[Old_Geezer]

Waiting for the sycophants to stop trying to change history first woofgang. Doesn't pay to give them free rein in their whitewashing goal.