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Black Lives Matter = Save The Rainforests.Doesn't mean at the expense of all other forests.
As has always been the case there are groups who are little more than anarchists attaching themselves to genuine protests. I remember back in my mining days, every time there was a sniff of industrial unrest there were groups of “socialist workers” swarming about all over stirring things up.
If all people in the UK were equal with equal opportunity you would/should see about 12% of any workforce being BAME.
We were only talking this morning how very few black people we could remember in Donny when we lived there 40years ago nor in Notts were we are now and several other places in between. Plenty of of Asian but very few black people. Has that situation changed in Donny?
All, I love reading this forum but I think I've only posted once or twice in 12 years. But this thread got me going. There's 3 things I wanted to say.1. I remember my youngest son at about 8 (now 21) describing how he'd been invited to a school mate's birthday party. i asked him who it was and where he lived cos I'd never heard of him. Ok. He's got curly hair, green eyes, a bit taller and slimmer than me...Oh, I said, that new black kid who's just joined. He said dad I didn't think you could say that. But he was pretty genuinely clour-blind and didn't use the most defining characteristic to describe him.2. Wind on 13 years at University and my elder son lived in Bristol with two white guys and three white girls, and one one black guy. They all got pissed and misbehaved apparently, but who was the only one who got stopped and lifted by the the police 18 times in one year? Yep. Met him and he's a lovely bloke.3. The thing about statues. I'm undecided. I think you should maybe remove the overtly commercial-opportunity ones (and don't know why they would erect one in the first place eg Colston) but attacking Churchill or Rhodes in my mind is ridiculous. They were men of their time, and you can't impose retrospective values on their actions unless you agree to give up the benefits of those. And how do you calculate that? William the Conqueror killed an estimated 1m in the Harrying of the North, Queen Mary burned 1000s of Protestants during her reign - should we shut down pubs bearing their name? Where do start? Or end?
Welcome KR you've provided a shed load for further dabate.
He could laugh at himself as well could Charlie. One of his put-downs when faced with a persistent heckler in his standup days was 'If tha dunt shut up I'll come and live next to yer'.
He feking had to laugh at himself to earn money. If he'd have taken offence or had a go back he'd be either sacked and broke or lynched and dead. Ffs
A few years ago one of my grandsons used to go to football training on a Saturday. They always finished with five a side and on the way home one day he was telling me how good one lad was.When I asked which one he meant he said he was up front a lot of the time. Which one? He had a Barcelona kit on. Yes but which one? He was the right tall lad.I then realised that he meant a lad who looked of Caribbean heritage.Any one my age would have just said at the start " The black lad".Not as a derogatory term but just as the easiest way to describe him, just we might have said, skinny,fat,small,tall,blonde,ginger or curly.A lot of the time it is the way a word is used rather than the word itself.
But yeah, the REAL issue is obviously people choosing to kneel...