race question

[Scarlets]

Firtsly, I am a srict anit-racist, secondly this is a delicate subject, but I am confused. 90% of the time, if a white person uses a certain word beggining with n and enfing in r they are sacked / reprimanded, if an afro carribean person for instance uses it, nobody batters an eyelid. Why is this? Similarly, would I be frowned upon if I started an award ceremony called the MOWO's (Music of White Origin?)

[Pourrais]

Sorry, but i just can't find much sympathy for the poor, oppressed White people in the UK who have to go to ALL the trouble of not using a few words in their punchlines. Guys, does not being able to use the the N----r word or indeed the P--i word REALLY bother you so much? No offence, but since when do White people decide what Black peope and other minorities find offensive or not?

[cruthinboy]

tomd - you're bang on , but there's really no point going on about it, you just end up being labelled a Nazi.

[undercovers]

racism is indeed funny, and to prove the point - there is a gang of black kids in woodgreen i met who call all white people Casper (as in Casper the friendly ghost) - an inspired turn of phrase i'm sure you'll agree.

[cruthinboy]

For goodness sakes - my last post about blacks [edited] was intended to be a humourous reply to undecovers one about blacks calling whites "casper" as in ghost.

cruthinboy - it wasn't funny. - AB Editor

And if mine had to be deleted, why not undercovers'????

-- because undercover's post didn't contain a term of racist abuse. - AB Editor

[cruthinboy]

What is I'm offended by the thought of black kids calling people "Casper".

[cruthinboy]

Sorry that last one was a question "What if ...?"

[cruthinboy]

It's like walking on eggshells, as they say! I'm bored with Answerbank - byeee!

[Nang25]

I had a run in with a Afro- Caribean male at work. Everytime I pulled him up for not doing his job, taking food, and being 40 mins late I got the old "this is cos Im black" pulled on me. So the day he called be a f**king white bi**h I got told by my boss to give him another chance! One rule for all I think is needed! Also when a gang of white youths attacks a coloured guy the attack is racial.....but the other way round it isnt? This baffles me!