Racist Britain

[dangermows]

I use to use it all the time. At one point there were three shops in our street so it was just an indicator of which shop you were off to. Now there is just one , so it's just called 'the shop'.

And if there were still three?

 

[SAFCOldie]

And if there were still three?

That's a good question As I'm chummy with owner now it would just be 'I'm off to Pinders'

 

[dangermows]

It’s a different thing imho. In places like Bradford there is a resentment due to the numbers and white people feeling they are being marginalised. Up here it’s still a novelty to see a black person in the pub, and people seem happy to use racist words without any actual malice.

 

[Aituk7]

What a strange bump

 

[forzamilansafc]

I very rarely see black people in pubs up here mind, although I’m not really taking much notice of it either

 

[MackneyHackem]

55% mistaken for an employee rather than a customer in shops

I did this to a fella in Tesco.

 

[dangermows]

I very rarely see black people in pubs up here mind, although I’m not really taking much notice of it either

They tend frequent places they can bust slick moves and clean up with the ladies. The cool fuckers.

Is it because the smb seems to exist in a weird parallel universe where racism is seen as a thing of the past, and people will respond with scorn and ridicule when you point out that the north east is still a hotbed of institutional racism?

That's disappointing.

What a strange bump

Nope. Falls in with Daves crack about it also being unusual to see gay people in the North East

 

[Aituk7]

I did this to a fella in Tesco.

When a staff member confuses a colleague for a customer. That's when you know you have problems

 

[Mrjardine]

They tend frequent places they can bust slick moves and clean up with the ladies. The cool

Wheres this
Used to see them in Chase on R&B nights on getting knocked back right left and centre. Always in a group together getting fuck all

 

[dangermows]

Wheres this
Used to see them in Chase on R&B nights on getting knocked back right left and centre. Always in a group together getting fuck all

Jealous he hasn't got the moves ^

 

[pillars of hercules]

I did this a few years ago, it was absolutely mortifying.

In my defence though the Tesco manager was an asian fella in a navy blue suit who had been standing there seconds before, as was the bloke who I mistook for the Tesco manager.

Tbf I asked Gary Pallister if I worked in the store when I was in the Yarm Aldi

Tbf I asked Gary Pallister if I worked in the store when I was in the Yarm Aldi

If he worked in the store

 

[S.S.R..]

Makes me wonder how many people would be smuggling themselves in trucks and coming over in little dinghies if we were nice.

 

[Jon Dough]

They don't come for the weather,as a country we aren't even in the racist tables,nowhere near.

There are 1.2 million illegal immigrants in the UK - a quarter of the entire total in Europe

Britain has up to 1.

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[the boot]

A thousand apologies needed.

 

[Bob Gurney's Ghost]

A survey for the Guardian revealed

43% of ethnic minorities were overlooked for promotion in a manner that felt unfair (more than twice the proportion of white people)

37% were stopped by the police without good reason

55% mistaken for an employee rather than a customer in shops

34% asked to leave a club, bar or restaurant for no good reason (three times as likely as a white person)

62% reported being stopped going through airport security or customs

The poll also found comprehensive evidence to suggest unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of Britain's 8.5m people from minority backgrounds that is not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

38% had been wrongly suspected of shop lifting (14% of white people)

55% had been treated differently due to their hair or clothes (29% of white people)

Minorities were also twice as likely to have suffered abuse or rudeness from a stranger.

Didn't realise the problem was so bad tbh.

Whilst I believe over racism has risen significantly in the UK since we got permission from Trump and the New Right to make it so, the survey 'results' are a bit of an insult to everyone's intelligence really. The terms of reference of the research, context, nature of the sample and exact questions plus a dozen other facts would need to be known to give this any creedence whatsoever. It looks childish as it is.

 

[Horatio Pugwash]

Of course Britain is racist. You can see racism everywhere if you try really hard everywhere you go.

 

[dangermows]

Just look at the thread about gay people at the swimming pool. People reckon they nudge each other and whisper if they see a black person ffs

 

[Horatio Pugwash]

Just look at the thread about gay people at the swimming pool. People reckon they nudge each other and whisper if they see a black person ffs

People? Or @Dave Herbal ?

 

[dangermows]

People? Or @Dave Herbal ?

Well Gilly reckoned its normal to do that, and compared Sunderland to remote parts of Nigeria.

 

[bernardbresslaw]

Of course Britain is racist. You can see racism everywhere if you try really hard everywhere you go.

If you've got to try really hard it can't be as bad as people are trying to make out.
We've come a long way and there is certainly a way to go but when the current older generation (60's/70's/80's) die out we'll be a lot closer to driving it out of society all together. You can't learn an old dog new tricks.