Racism Is Alive And Kicking In The Uk

[youngmafbog]

Racism works both ways, this sort of thing has to stop if we are to be one people. And how black do you need to be before being made unwelcome?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12108721/NANA-AKUA-London-theatre-holding-black-performance-uses-language-apartheid.html

[ToraToraTora]

clearly they'll be compensating with a white only performance of something!

[ToraToraTora]

....can't wait to see how TROB justify this one!

[roadman]

i dont think we should be one people i think that is ignorant to the history and culture everyone has been through we have qualities that make us unique and areas some are better than others and others are better than some we need to respect and understand each culture and celebrate it rather than mock shame or try to degrade it i think that is the goal

[Untitled]

it sounds fine to me

[Bobbisox1]

I heard about this on Talk TV earlier,can you imagine the furore if it was billed as Only White people to attend?

[youngmafbog]

//we need to respect and understand each culture//

Yes, but that needs to work all ways too. Although I do get your point.
By one people I mean not divided by colour of skin.

Interesting to see this article comes from a black lady.

[youngmafbog]

//can't wait to see how TROB justify this one!//


It would appear they are fine with it.

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "it sounds fine to me " - would you also be ok with a white only audience for another show?

[Untitled]

"Needless to say, this is an openly racist policy. To suggest that the mere presence of a certain race is somehow harmful or not ‘safe’ is obviously every bit as exclusionary as any other law or policy that discriminates against one race."

i think that is rather disingenuous... a discriminatory law or policy affects everyone until it is repealed and does lasting harm to people based on who they are in the eyes of the state... the subject of the article is one play on one night that most of us were entirely unaware of.

come back if there's a campaign to systematically and permanently remove white people from theatres and i will agree it's racist... until then... nah

[Untitled]

toratoratora

i would be a bit suspicious of the motives of people who wanted to organise a show for white people only...

[naomi24]

Untitled, what’s the difference?

[Untitled]

in the UK black people are a minority who have been long mistreated and white people are not per se

[naomi24]

Untitled. That’s not a reason to excuse racism. If you object to it, you should object to it regardless of the colour of the victim. Instead of that you’re condoning it because the perpetrators are black.

[roadman]

it surprised me white people are not permitted to be in the audience should we not learn about the history and culture to help educate us

[roadman]

what untitled is saying is that caucasian is not a protected minority so cant really get their knickers in a twist about being excluded from certain shows and performances

[naomi24]

What untitled is saying is racist.

[ToraToraTora]

14:40, but you are ok with a black only show. Please explain.

[david small]

Oh for a world where the colour of your skin is irrelevant.
In Gullivers Travels, the went to war over what side an egg should be eaten, top first or bottom first. This colour nonsense is very similar.
IT DOESN'T MATTER REALLY.
Sorry for shouting.

[New Judge]

//what untitled is saying is that caucasian is not a protected minority..//

I don't know if that is what he's saying but whether that's so or not, it is incorrect. No individual racial groups are "protected minorities". The law says that discrimination on the basis of race is illegal. So it doesn't matter if the victims of that discrimination are white or black. But this intrigues me:

"..come back if there's a campaign to systematically and permanently remove white people from theatres and i will agree it's racist... until then... nah//

So one occasion of discrimination on the basis of race is OK (provided the victims of that discrimination are "only" white). What about two? Or twenty? Where is the line drawn between such a practice being acceptable or not?

This proposal is racist, plainly and simply. To excuse it on the basis that it is OK to exclude white people because "...in the UK black people are a minority who have been long mistreated" is simply indulgent tosh.

[douglas9401]

Just some folk shouting look at us, nothing to worry about.

Hope it's as good as the mainstream stuff that seems to get a pass from quality control at our major broadcasters.