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Post by lollygagger on Jun 5, 2020 10:33:11 GMT
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Post by lollygagger on Jun 5, 2020 10:42:45 GMT
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 5, 2020 11:15:09 GMT
Overall, it doesn't seem that the great multi cultural experiment is working too well. Many decades on, despite 'race relation' laws and the like, tensions seem to be increasing, rather than easing. I'd imagine that countries who have less of a mix, if they're looking on, won't be making a high priority of changing their own racial mix.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 11:28:18 GMT
Quite interesting to see the Covid thing turn up in all this. It seems that some people are protesting that more blacks die than whites from this disease.
Maybe it's just a genetic predisposition?
It's possible that loads of other things which happen are genetic.
As to racism my theory is it's just nature. After all you often see interspecific competition and aggression in animal species and humans are animals.
The fact we have a big brain and talk to each other means we can work out that being "racist" is not very useful.
Everyone is going to be instinctively cautious "racist" but most people can bypass the instinct and behave differently.
Whether this is good or bad is open to debate.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 12:26:25 GMT
I must be different I dont see colour in people I only see the person, I went out with Carol Pierre when I was younger a beautiful black lady, I have also gone out with a Pakistani lady, an Arabian lady, a German Lady and a Chinese lady. Colour and race dont come into the equation, good and bad exist everywhere you have to see beyond colour otherwise as a race we will never move on. Now I watched the video of the murder and why was a asian policeman looking on? Clearly America has a problem that they need to sort, because this time I dont think it will go away Well, all that suggests you are just a male tart. 😂 Nothing whatsoever to do with racism.
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Post by bodger on Jun 5, 2020 12:31:42 GMT
The placards saying 'Black Lives Matter' is the twist. Why not: 'Lives Matter' ? err ..................... just maybe because blacks are treated disproportionately by the police, both numerically and regarding the manner of their treatment, as indicated by all the available evidence.
but you knew that already and are just doing your usual sensationalist crapping on the towpath.
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Post by bodger on Jun 5, 2020 12:33:27 GMT
Everyone is going to be instinctively cautious "racist" but most people can bypass the instinct and behave differently. Whether this is good or bad is open to debate. agree ......................... exactly the way I feel in such situations.
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Post by lollygagger on Jun 5, 2020 13:25:29 GMT
I used to know an old white fella that promoted a lot of black music events in the 60's and 70's - Desmond Decker, The Israelites, Coxon Sound, all the stars at the time. To him they were coons, to them he was a honky. He could book the venues because he was a honky. He took the gate money, paid the band a fiver and the band made their money selling 'erb and drinks. They loved him because he called them coons to their face and stuck to his deals. He used to go out getting pissed and fighting in the East end with "a bunch of coons", a few of them were successful recording stars - all his stories ended with someone being thrown through a shop window or similar and "We didn't know no better then" 40 years later he could still waltz into a few black clubs and be welcome. I can't remember the point I was going to make but I'm not going to delete all that typing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 14:08:20 GMT
It bugged me that the guy got killed, but all the crap that's happened since just undermines the situation. All the shit with the police "taking a knee" is completely wrong, they are there to uphold the law, not make political statements. It's time cressida dick was sacked, she's been and continues to be a liability. Wtf is all this crap about taking a knee anyway?
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Post by lollygagger on Jun 5, 2020 14:57:06 GMT
It bugged me that the guy got killed, but all the crap that's happened since just undermines the situation. All the shit with the police "taking a knee" is completely wrong, they are there to uphold the law, not make political statements. It's time cressida dick was sacked, she's been and continues to be a liability. Wtf is all this crap about taking a knee anyway? It's puke inducing...but Society can't function if the police are the enemy. Orders from on high to demonstrate that they are part of the wider community. Don't forget they've also been fining people for doing similar to Cummings, there will be some resentment for this. It's piss poor that police who should be there like the US to serve and protect become the enemy but sometimes they don't help themselves.
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Post by Jim on Jun 5, 2020 16:09:34 GMT
Report on the fact that BAMEs are twice as likely to die of Covid than whites. Also that working age men are twice as likely to die than working age women. Lots of noise about the first, nothing about the second. I can only assume this means that it's been decided that as working age men (predominantly white) have 'special advantages' in life they can be deemed less important than BAMEs. Here are some pieces of advice to BAMEs, might lead them to have more successful and happier lives. Don't spend a fortune 'smoothing' you hair. You're black, be proud of your hair, stop trying to be like a white person. Equally, before you spend a fortune on braiding consider the fact that Bob Marley has been dead a long time now. It is important to be seen as cool in the 'hood, but it's not the meaning of life. Treat other people's property with the respect you'd expect them to show to yours. Go outside sometimes, and beyond the street your gang operates in. England is a nice place, it can be enjoyable to be in the countryside. Try it sometime, you might like it. Not every fight has to involve a gun or a knife. Learn to use your fists and in exceptional circumstances, your forehead. If you choose to sell drugs so you can have that nice black car with blacked out windows please don't moan about the imbalance of BAME people in prison, if you get caught. Speak English, not Pigeon. Go and sort em out Clinton Cool
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 17:00:22 GMT
Sometimes, just sometimes, I'm embarrassed to be a contributor to this forum.
Rog
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Post by Jim on Jun 5, 2020 17:26:10 GMT
Sometimes, just sometimes, I'm embarrassed to be a contributor to this forum. Rog You aren't alone.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 17:49:54 GMT
Sometimes, just sometimes, I'm embarrassed to be a contributor to this forum. Rog Why?
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Post by Jim on Jun 5, 2020 17:51:05 GMT
Sometimes, just sometimes, I'm embarrassed to be a contributor to this forum. Rog Why? You really don't know?
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