For your information, I have never worn a klan uniform.As a matter of fact, I have never seen a so called Klansman. I was under the impression that the klan was disbanded over 50 yrs ago.
I wasn't saying you were a klansman, I said that I'm not saying you are "racist" in the sense of being like a klansman.
The klan is still going, by the way. A few years ago Britain barred entry to two of their top 'wizards'. They pop on on Jerry Springer now and again and have their own website (I believe there are several factions these days).
Yep, call me an idiot, but also consider what I'm writing properly before you do.
I have made no comment about how what you say is wrong in that you know how life is there (and you're right, I've never been to the States), I have just said that your comment that everything was rosy until the Blacks came needs to consider where the Blacks were coming from.
Now, as a matter of fact, I don't agree with a lot of this 'multiculturalism'. It makes me a little angry to go for a job and have to fill in an ethnicity section on a form (particularly when 'English' isn't listed as an ethnicity but Irish is).
You mention Dorset, well I worked in Devon a few years. Until the 1960's there were hardly any Blacks there (I met a woman who was one of the first) and even now there aren't many. However, there is a growing Arab and Middle-Eastern population (probably because of all the language schools) and, I believe, Indian-Asian. however (if it is true) I didn't like hearing that there were plans to import a large group of Africans into the area from London because it was, to me, unnatural migration in that they weren't making their own way there and a new community wasn't developing. The culture shock for residents might be hard to deal with.
Britain has a large Indian population. They have been here well over fifty years and have faced discrimination etc. however, the first generations worked like hell to achieve something and they did. They've enriched britsh culture and they've given a lot (and received a lot). In many cases they've passed their work ethic onto their kids.
Your Blacks were home grown...
What I'm objecting to in many of the posts here is an idea that equality is fine as long as you aren't Black. it's OK for Poles to go somewhere and be immigrants and make successes of themselves... but not Blacks. OK for Poles to become citizens of another country and make something of themselves... but not Blacks. Poles can bleat about poor treatment in UK etc but it's fine for a tax-paying brit in Poland to be refused credit because the Polish government and credit firms can't get their joint act together with id cards.
I was speaking with an Arab who lives in Poland and he was saying although he and his friends are trained doctors (trained in Poland by Polish doctors) they have heard people ask for a Polish doctor on hearing they were Arabs. What bull! If they were hanging over a cliff and it was an 'ethnic' hand which offered to pull them up, would they say they'd rather have a Polish one?
There have been 'ethnic' students in Poland for decades and there is still not a major Black population. But for those citizens of Poland who are Black, or Vietnamese... why should they not be allowed to be represented by a Black politician. More to the point, if WHITE POLES choose him, why should their views not be considered as valid?
You Europeans are too serious about life. We Americans have a broader sense of humor.
Oh come on... you can't even say 'the N-word' in NY now! A US politician dresses as an SS soldier in reenactment and the world turns upside down. Ted Danson blacks up and the halls of hell reverberate.
Miley Cyrus does a slant-eye face and there's law suits flying around.
We live with it.
Our Royalty still uphold it.
By the way, how was the fishing?
