General Chat

to night the door bell went
and when i answered it
it was a Pakistani young man about 24
he was doing a survey i invited him in
and we had the most wonderful conversation between the questions

and our worlds were a million miles
from each other but not so different
we well sorted the world out
and before he left
he took my hand and said
i will be praying for you and your family joy at the mosque

i though how sweet it that

don't be fooled into thinking that racism is the province of the under-educated. It most certainly is not.

My daughter is married to a Zambian. They both studied at Durham University, where they both gained doctorates. When they walked through "leafy Durham" together they were often heckled - not by hoody-wearing degenerates, but by Durham Uni students. I won't repeat what was verbally flung at them by the so-called intellegensia - progeny of the British upper-middle classes.

Ignorance knows no class boundaries.

Sue x

I am not a racist and I do not condone the policies of the BNP. However I have to admit that Nick Griffin raises pertinent points that the other parties ignore. He was criticised today for using wartime images of spitfires and soldiers to highlight the BNP and the interviewer also said he was wrong to wear a poppy. Griffin replied that the poppy was a symbol of remembrance and that he had the right to wear it. He then said that the very people criticising him for wearing it were not against charging legless servicemen in Selly Oak hospital, both white and black, to watch the TV or make telephone calls to their loved ones. He went on to say that when that matter was redressed he would take his poppy off.

He has a point.

Oh that B******* !!!!!!!!!!!.I know who it is now

The leader of the BNP Jane.

Who is Nick Griffin Rose? Sorry if I sound a bit thick lol

I know one thing Jane, if Nick Griffin moved into my street...I'd move out !

I watched most of the programme and found it really upsetting.I was so angry .The young lad Sonny was shocking.....but where does he learn that behaviour from? His parents?I noticed the word Paki was used an awful lot.That was used way back in the 60's I think
I remember my maths teacher at senior school(who I had liked) saying that if a 'coloured family moved into his street he would move out as it would lower the tone and the prices of the houses.I was so disgusted ,I never spoke to him again.

There are nice people there too of course..... I just hate them as well today lol

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Hi Uggers , good that... I am not quite so optimistic though, have just joined another site and the percentage of idiots is depressing lol
;)) (ignore me it's grey and wet and I am a miserable s** today )
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Still, I have to say society is looking up - I've seen that the Press Complaints Commission has received 21, 000 complaints about an article written about the death of Stephen Gateley by the Daily Mail's Jan Moir:)))

I think you are right Rambling Rose. Self esteem is poor in some of these thugs and it is a way they can feel 'big'. No excuse for their behaviour, but the problem will grow unless unless there are improvements in bad upbringing from parents with the same attitude and improvements in the disgraceful behaviour in our schools.

Ann, I strongly suspect that a lot of those who start with animal cruelty 'work their way up' to harming people. They have to have a target to hate it seems, those who are 'different', those who are old or vulnerable...even just those who dress differently or support a rival football team .

I worked with people who would not speak to some of their own kind outside work if they were for example of a different caste. There is prejudice within races as well as across them, but I often wonder if the same kind of thugs who threaten and harm other races also threaten and harm elderly people. Too many people are living in fear in this country and there should be zero tolerance of any of this kind of behaviour to anyone.

People will demonstrate for more pay, about animal cruelty, fox hunting or to save a tree or building, but not these kinds of things. Says a lot about our society today and the way some young people are being raised.

but is that colour based or class or just culture based Joy?

I mean I live in an area where there is a real mix....but I would rather live next door to someone of any colour that looked after the place and was polite and (for want of a better phrase) well bred...than a scuzzy oik who trashed his home and garden, shouted abuse and I was afraid to talk to in case I got a brick in the face...albeit he 'looked like me'....,

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i dont agree with threatening or harming anybody
but i would favor my family or friends or neighbours
who are all my type or similar

oh I don't know Joy lol.... the people on there that were 'my own type' ( poor , working class, white) I didn't favour at all .

but favouring ones own and threatening to kill someone 'different' are poles apart .

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not that i am for racism
but its the most normal thing in the world

to favor people of your own type

Thanks Muffy , I was up my tree for the first half of it:)

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They were pretending to have limited English Rose.......I watched it all the way through........

it WAS disgusting behaviour........I was appalled. People filmed tonight ought to be locked up for a long time xx