[QUOTE="-Snooze-"][QUOTE="delta3074"]i have a lot of black friends who have better jobs than i do, it may be that way in your manor but it ain't like that here, black and whites live in relative harmony here, even when i was in the army i never saw any black soldiers being racially abused, and a lot of them held high ranks too, this is the most racially tolerent country in the world in my view, i personally have never seen anybody oppressed because of there colour or race where i live, also, my mum says you are talking rubbish, she said there where never any lynchings here 50 years ago an she was in school then, do you even live in the UK? you know this was the first country to abolish slaverydelta3074
Of course I live in the UK ... And regardless of what you're mother says, History says differently, do some research, and i'm not talking US either, im talking about the UK.
I'm not talking about harmony, 'cause im sure everyone has black, white, asian friends, im talking about how minorities have to work twice as hard to achieve as much as a white majority would have to. As i've said before, without being through it, you wouldnt understant it. Perhaps you should ask your black friends how they honestly feel about it?
This has nothing to do with the riots however, and classicism is also a prominent issue, which effects far more people, regardless of race or religion.
like i said in my later post, my mate wayne wynters walked straight into a managerial position, we have high ranking black police officers here, councillors, solicitors, and i will have you know that all of my black friends are proud to be english, a lot of them a have done military service, i don't see black people having to work twice as hard to get anywhere here and i never saw that in the army, which, i might had had it's fair share of black officers and NCO's, and my mum should know what used to happen here 50 years ago, she lived through it and my dad's best mates where all black and he dated black women, like i said, i don't know where you live but here in my manor what you talk about does not exist, the majority of criminals and yobs here are white, have you even seen it yourself or did you just read it, even if what you say did happen here in the UK 50 years ago, which i doubt, it hardly reflects society the way it is today, it is against the law in this country to discriminate against people on the grounds of Race, colour, religion and sex so if you do see it i suggest you report it to the appropriate authoritys, there are plenty of black people in the justice system.Facts are facts, no disrespect to your mother, but she is wrong ... Undisputably.
I know the law, it's against the law to discriminate, and yet the BNP were allowed for so long ... It's also against the law to riot, set houses alight etc, and yet ... seems to be happening.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Britain is a racist place, its one of the more tolerent countries (perhaps too tolerent) but you, trying to honestly tell me that it's not harder, even if marginally harder, for minorities to succeed in the UK, then the white majority then, not only are you statistically wrong, but you're blind to the truth.
There's successfull black people everywhere in the UK, no one is claiming they cant be huge successes, because they can. Ask anyone of those successful black people if they felt they had to try harder then their white peers to get to where they are, and the majority will agree.
It's unfair, and ignorant for you to attempt to tell me how minorities feel in Britain. You are not a minority, thus you have no idea. It's not about wether they're proud to be british or not, im proud to be british, but claiming that racism doesnt exist in the UK, is truly ridiculous. Perhaps you should listen to the song in my link, it seems relevent now more then ever.
One again this is COMPLETELY besides, the point. This is about the riots, which have nothing to do with race, or religion.
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