What a hero.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....2-trapped-inside.html

After reading numerous reports of stabbings, gun crime, and gang warfare, etc, among young blacks, it is so refreshing to read this report of a very brave black lad who burst into a burning house to rescue this infant.

Well done Nelson

[youngmafbog]

Whilst it is probably true that such crimes are higher amongst the young black community they are still very much a minority. There are far many more young 'non white' people who are good citizens, and indeed as this case show an outstanding and brave one two so I don't think it is surprising news.

What is surprising is that the newspapers have reported it. Papers of all persuasions seem hell bent on publishing bad news rather than good and that makes all of us get a warped perspective of the reality.

[friedgreentomato]

AOG I find your thread and comments quite insulting!

[ELVIS68]

Well worded AOG very sincere.

Do you write obituaries for a living?

[ummmm]

You think black people wouldn't help anyone in danger?

Must inform them to not waste their efforts, in future.

[flip_flop]

AOG is highlighting an act of bravery - why the sarcasm?

friedgreentomato - I assume you are a black male teenager given that you feel insulted.

[ludwig]

// AOG is highlighting an act of bravery //

Not in a very nice way in my opinion. He seems to be saying, 'Look!, black people do good things as well as stabbing and mugging people - what a surprise'.

[youngmafbog]

Ludwig. Depends how you read it and how you want to interpret it. You could interpret it as you have or you could interpret it as a go at the papers/media.

Read again (without bigoted blinkers) and see what I mean.

[friedgreentomato]

Flip flop what does the colour of my skin or my sex have to do with anything?

[ludwig]

Yep, still looks the same. I can't really seeing AOG making a point about how it's refreshing for the Mail (his favourite source that I've never seen him criticise yet) to write positive stories about black people for a change.

[sp1814]

AOG

I understand your good intentions with this post, but the phrasing just seems a little wrong, and I can't put my finger on why. I've re-read it a few times, and...and...I think it might be down to the adjective 'refreshing'.

Actually no - forget it. You've highlighted a positive story, and that's a good thing.

[Baldric]

Black lad, not very PC is it aog?

[ludwig]

// You've highlighted a positive story //

Now that is refreshing.

[bazwillrun]

"Read again (without bigoted blinkers) and see what I mean"

wasting your breath on these people.

they examine every word to see if they can put some sort of PC racist slant to it.

Theyre on a mission, they dont have lives they spend their time on here twisting and distorting posts, it gives them something to do and to justify their non stop self righteous indignation at every turn.

Laughable

[flip_flop]

"Flip flop what does the colour of my skin or my sex have to do with anything?"

As you feel insulted I assumed you are black. Am I wrong in thinking you feel you have been insulted by AOG? If you are, in fact, white, why would AOG's thread insult you?

I can sort of understand where people are coming from concerning the nature of AOG's post and the language he has used (although I fail to see how using the work 'black', baldric, is un-pc), but surely the thing to celebrate is the act of bravery shown in the link rather than using it as a way to sneer at AOG?

[Baldric]

aog has said in previous threads that Coloured is in his opinion not very PC, why would Black be any different?

[ummmm]

Why mention colour though? Why can't he just mention it's brave what this 'lad' did?

This post screams of 'I'm not racist, I can post positive things about black people.

Nothing more, nothing less...

[anotheoldgit]

Amazing, absolutely amazing, to those with very large bricks on their shoulders I say this, I need not have entered this story, and seeing by the response I have got for daring to do so, describes more about you lot than it does about me.

Have we come to point on AnswerBank, for the need to somehow pass one's words through the over sensitive PC Brigade's sieve before it becomes acceptable to post?

Incidentally Baldric has there been yet another alteration in the 'Big Book Of Political Correctness', is it now no longer acceptable to say 'Black Lad'? You will be criticising me next for daring to be so forward as to be calling him by his first name.

I do hope that the Editor reads through this and makes some comment, I know for sure that I will be copying and pasting this for future reference and proof of who the main instigators are.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1173991.html

Just recalling your response @ 11:57 in this thread, does it not count when you say it?

[anotheoldgit]

What is happening to this site?

I enter a perfectly lawful thread, and it attracts snide comments, insults and other criticisms, and only 2 persons stood up for me, one so true in his description of the abuse I had received, that I chose to award it the Best Answer.

And yet I now see that not only has his thread been removed but it has also been removed from the Best Answer slot.

Can whoever removed this answer please tell me what was wrong with the wording, because as far as I remember it contained nothing against the rules, only condemnation of those who's answers should have been removed in the first place.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

If I remember it was you who used the word 'coloured' and I pointed out that this was not PC.

/// Because you appear to have an obsession with all things Gay, Coloured, Sexual and Racist imho. ///

Had I had used that word you would have been amongst many to point this out to me.