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Should Such A Virtually Unknow Person Have Been Honoured In Such A Way?
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Many have criticised the fact that Baroness Thatcher is to receive a Military Procession funeral, I wonder what the reaction would have been if she had also been further honoured by having her image on a postage stamp, at least she would have been more fitting alongside other British famous faces, than a Mr John Archer?
Many have criticised the fact that Baroness Thatcher is to receive a Military Procession funeral, I wonder what the reaction would have been if she had also been further honoured by having her image on a postage stamp, at least she would have been more fitting alongside other British famous faces, than a Mr John Archer?
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If you wish to read about the stamps without all the Daily Mail twaddle, the Royal Mail website is far more informative.
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I confess I had not heard of this gentle. Neither did I recognise some woman who wrote a cookbook 70 years ago, or the archealogist. The rational for this odd collection is that they are British people who have an anniversary in 2013. So they all fit, even if some are less recognisable than others.
I wonder why AOG chose the Afro Caribean gentleman as the odd one out?
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I confess I had not heard of this gentle. Neither did I recognise some woman who wrote a cookbook 70 years ago, or the archealogist. The rational for this odd collection is that they are British people who have an anniversary in 2013. So they all fit, even if some are less recognisable than others.
I wonder why AOG chose the Afro Caribean gentleman as the odd one out?
I think it's a bit insulting to black people.
It almost smacks of "including the token black". They haven't included him because of what he achieved (he was just another mayor of a London borough). They have included him because he was black.
It seems terribly patronising to the black population. It's like patting them on the head, and saying Well done little black people, one of you became a mayor.
It seems all wrong to me.
It almost smacks of "including the token black". They haven't included him because of what he achieved (he was just another mayor of a London borough). They have included him because he was black.
It seems terribly patronising to the black population. It's like patting them on the head, and saying Well done little black people, one of you became a mayor.
It seems all wrong to me.
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/// Well, it's educational, aog. As a pioneer at a time when few of his colour were notable for achieving anything in this country, what's wrong with bringing him to wider notice? ///
He may well have been the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be elected into public office, but wasn't Margaret Thatcher the first British Female Prime Minister.
No this is just another piece of PC nonsense.
/// Well, it's educational, aog. As a pioneer at a time when few of his colour were notable for achieving anything in this country, what's wrong with bringing him to wider notice? ///
He may well have been the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be elected into public office, but wasn't Margaret Thatcher the first British Female Prime Minister.
No this is just another piece of PC nonsense.
Would he have been included if he was white?
No.
So he is being treated differently because of his colour.
And the word for treating someone differently because of their colour is ... ?
Why are people so insecure that they feel the need to demonstrate their cultural diversity ostentatiously? Is it some subconscious, suppressed racist tendency?
No.
So he is being treated differently because of his colour.
And the word for treating someone differently because of their colour is ... ?
Why are people so insecure that they feel the need to demonstrate their cultural diversity ostentatiously? Is it some subconscious, suppressed racist tendency?
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