Racism in hungary

[SydneyRover]

I would think that most have HA, when I was growing up I thought most of our problems would be sorted, why are we still hearing the same stories the same reports?

[selby]

  I think a few on here who do know me would find it quite  funny that you feel sorry for me,anyway thanks for the thoughts, but I can assure you as far as I am concerned there is no need.

[drfchound]

So, what has anyone on this forum actually done to help stamp out racism.
Genuine question chaps.

Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s I would regularly attend anti racism demonstrations in London. These could be very hairy to say the least. The NF would often organise counter demonstrations on the same day & on the same route. Usually these were actually larger than our marches! Violence would often break out and, though I could look after myself,  they were scary times.

All this did was to strengthen my resolve that racism has no place in a progressive society. I thought then, and I think now, how crazy it is to judge someone by the colour of their skin?

HA, you have my respect for doing what you did sir.
You did your bit but as you say, it probably hasn’t made one iota of difference with regards to changing the mind of some people.
As you also said, racism isn’t just white on black and I have already touched on that in an earlier post.
Thanks for your sensible response to my question

[normal rules]

I’ve often said I’d like to go back some time.Sarajevo would probably be quite nice now, Mostar is stunning, prob even better now they have rebuilt the famous old bridge. Sarajevo has its own ski resort which I’ve always fancied. Cheap skiing, provided you can dodge the minefields . It’s a beautiful country but the people have real issues. Neighbours killing each other over which flag they hang outside their house.
On sundays we used to see people with pigs strung up in their front garden on diy wooden tripods.still alive and squealing when they cut their throat. We later discovered that the Orthodox Serbs living in Bosnia used to do this to piss off the Bosnian Muslim who lived down the road. A bit like turning up to your local mosque and hanging a dead pig head on the fence.
The most harrowing thing I ever saw was in Bosnia. And I’ve seen some things in my time, but it Sticks with me even to this day. Driving along one day I saw a dog at the side of the road. It was alive, barely, grossly emaciated, and it was chowing down on the exposed inards of another dog, this one not so lucky of course. Thing is, I’ve asked myself if I should have stopped and done something, but at the time I remembered thinking, at least he is getting fed. The country was wash with abandoned stray dogs. I think I left some of my psyche back in that place. And don’t get me talking about Srebrenica, where I went too. Just awful .
People bleat about racism in this country, perceived and otherwise. They don’t know the half of it .

You are correct of course about the racism and the atrocities but it doesn't excuse racism anywhere else.

I wasn’t excusing racism.
we live in a country where brewer Greene King has decided to rename a centuries old pub because it called The Black Boy.
Historians claim black boy is a ref to King Charles and was a name given to pubs and taverns by his supporters during the English civil war. Absolutely no racist history to this pubs name , and others with the identical name. The pub sign has a black horse on it which some locals consider to be the meaning around the name. Ie the boy, is the horse. And the official consensus is there is no clear knowledge around the naming of these pubs. But because there now exists a perception, well, the rest you know.
Greene King are worried the name has “racist connotations “ so it’s going to be renamed The Shinfield Arms.
What next, Black Beauty?
blackboards?
The use of the term black sheep ?
Black balled. ?

[SydneyRover]

I wasn't implying you were excusing racism, but I can see how you might have thought that.

[SydneyRover]

Funny old thread this….
I’m white late 50s ex military, …… I mention that I was racially abused every day for 3 years and 4 months ….every single day!!
and nobody bats an eyelid?…funny old topic is racism and abuse!
So seems as we are only really bothered about blacks and monkey chants, let me put some meat on this particular bone…….

I had 4 Saudi ex military working under me at a military installation, and every day a copy of the Quran was placed in my rucksack, and every day I returned it with a small bow and no words…..I wasn’t the only white-eye that received this drip fed life threatening abuse….and that’s why I knew how to deal with it,( throw away or destroy a Quran is very punishable by death)…

I handed in my resignation and left half way through my Al Salam contract…..

I believe now have a greater understanding of what it feels like to go to work knowing one wrong word or action could potentially land me in a bad place…..

Carry on! …lol

You should not have to have suffered this, I'll take a knee for you.

Can I ask you how it feels to have someone else decide how to deal with your pain shaggy?

Added: for 3 years 4 months you were tormented with a book, imagine how you would feel if your forebears were mentally abused and tortured for the whole of their lives, if they managed to see their whole lives through that is and then you came along and you got some of the same treatment and were ignored for decades in a so called civilised democracy where someone that abused people became PM?