Are we a nation of passive racists?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-authors-bigotry.html

Well we are according to ex footballer John Barnes, does he suggest that we burn all these classics, such as the Nazis did in the 30s?

These books were written in a different age and reflected the feelings of explorers, colonist etc when they ventured into strange lands and encountered the natives of these lands, some which were proved to be very strange, savage and leading much different lifestyles to their own.

If these peoples also had such authors, they would have most likely have written the same sort of things about the white man.

[Baldric]

And still no answer

[emmie]

i dislike the generalisations going on here.
SP the elderly are not all rampant racists. No more than all football fans will be chucking banana skins at the black players. These are
stupid isolated incidents, which does great disservice to the majority of folk who watch football.

[ummmm]

He's not saying that Em. He's pointing out that each generation are getting less racist.

My grandad was a rampant racist, his kids were 'passive racists', and my generation are not racist.

So we can live in hope that one day we will be judged on the person we are, and not the colour of our skins.

[emmie]

umm, i have come across prejudice on all sides, black, white, brown, and it always seems in the media and on here that it's only white people who are prejudiced, it get on my nerves.

[ummmm]

Of course Em....but it just happens that lots of threads are posted about blacks and Muslims.

[THECORBYLOON]

Anotheoldgit, why is it so hard for you to give a clear answer to a very simple question?

[emmie]

and white people in the BNP, EDL and older people in Britain, Alf Garnett types, and so forth. As i said it gets monotonous.

[jno]

how can you tell a British subject from a British citizen just by looking, Clarion?

[FredPuli43]

Are there any passive racists on AB, do you think, aog, or are some active on the site ?

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

/// Are there any passive racists on AB, do you think, aog, or are some active on the site ? ///

In all my time on this site I have only accounted about two out and out 'white' racists, but even those could have been just wind-up merchants?

It is hard to tell on such sites because there are only words, but in general I have never in all my years personally witnessed any deliberate harmful actions or exclusions because of skin colour.

But what i did witness at last night's football match, was the show of togetherness between the black and the white Chelsea players, especially John Terry who apparently is about to go on trial accused of racial abuse.

[ELVIS68]

The same John Terry who called a fellow player a black c##t a few months ago.

Lovely man

[venator]

The nastiest racist comments I've ever heard are from Asians against other Asians.

Ask a Kashmiri what the thinks about Indians...

[jno]

are Kashmiris a race?

[THECORBYLOON]

I see anotheoldgit is avoiding the question I asked still.

[mike11111]

Just as an aside, the Agatha Christie novel referred to has had no less than three titles to reflect changing attitudes. When it was first published it was called "Ten Little N*****s". Later this was changed to "Ten Little Indians". Its current title is "And Then There Were None".

[anotheoldgit]

mike11111

Yes regarding that book, did you notice it said it was an unabridged version and yet it was re-titled 'Ten Little Indians'?

http://i.dailymail.co...005DC-191_196x280.jpg

[sp1814]

It s absolutely a fact, not an opinion. Older people are more right wing, and grew up in a Britain where you could casually used racist epithets andwhere gays were imprisoned.

Older people veer towards the Conservative party.

A Sunday Times poll recently showed that older people overwhelmingly disagree with marriage equality, whereas younger people overwhelmingly support it.

I know from growing up near Bermondsey just how bigotted some elderly Brits are.

[sp1814]

em10

There are a larger proportion of elderly racists than young racists.

They grew up in a different world and are likely to have very few black friends to temper their ignorance.

A mate of mine is a keen baker. Her grandmother was in a nursing home and on her birthday, she made her a cake and brought it around to her. She cut it up and asked her grandmother if she'd like to share it amongst the other residents.

Her grandmother said, "Of course - but none for that n****r over there".

My friend assumed there'd been some bad blood between them...there hadn't. She was just a rotten person.

Same with inter-racial marriage - I am old enough to remember older people refusing to attend wedding of their children if they dared to marry outside their race.