Mixed Race Relationships And Bigots

[sp1814]

Do you think that this kind of abuse has died out?

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/it-was-big-open-and-ignorant-dawn-french-recalls-horrific-racist-abuse-during-marriage-to-lenny-a3697781.html

Would they have received the same attention if they had got married in 2017 rather than 1984?

Perhaps one of the upsides of political correctness is that these kinds of attacks are now frowned upon (at least, from most of us).

[murraymints]

not up here I don't think,although I am not aware of many such relationships

[emmie]

no it hasn't died out, more's the pity. i was in a mixed race relationship way back and encountered some opposition, not least from my mothers partner, who was old school and didn't think i should be going out with a black man.

[Old_Geezer]

Freudian slip AOG ?

[mikey4444]

Imagine the outcry if Lenny had been both black and Muslim !

[mikey4444]

AOG....in the course of my work, I meet many mothers left alone with young children, and they are overwhelmingly white.

[Islay]

AOG do you have figures to back up your claims?
Black men are in minority to white men therefore it may appear more walk out on their families.
Can i see the stats please?

[anotheoldgit]

/// A quarter of all youngsters live in one-parent families – treble the proportion in 1972, according to the Office for National Statistics. ///

/// The biggest percentage of lone-parent households is among black ethnic groups. Forty-eight per cent of black Caribbean families have one parent, as do 36 per cent of black African households. ///

/// Single-parent families are less common among Indians (ten per cent), Bangladeshis (12 per cent), Pakistanis (13 per cent), Chinese (15 per cent) and whites (22 per cent). ///

[RATTER15]

My daughter dated and had a black child by him, I had no problem with the situation, they have however now split up. I don't there were any racially aggravated issues with them where they lived in North Devon.
I just find it amazing that in this day and age, people still judge people by the colour of their skin. Pathetic really.

[RATTER15]

"My daughter dated a black guy and had a black child by him"

[Mamyalynne]

As long as prejudices are handed down from generation to generation it will never fully die.

The responsibility to quash it lies with all of us.

[mccfluff]

how does a black man marr a daughter?

[pixie374]

I did wonder, fluff... I think he meant "marrying"

[anotheoldgit]

RATTER15

The colour of one's skin bears no significance, it is all about culture.

There the different races are all different in character and life styles.

[dannyk13]

AOG, I don't think that applies to those born here.

[sp1814]

AOG

Are your figures based on mixed relationships?

If not, then they are moot.

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13
Of course it does, culture is inbuilt, one would not expect a white
person born to white British parents in South Africa to behave the same as the natives of South Africa.

The same could apply to different foreign white countries.

[dannyk13]

// one would not expect a white
person born to white British parents in South Africa to behave the same as the natives of South Africa//
No he would behave like a white South African, as someone born here would adopt the local culture.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Not so SP unless of course you believe that all black couples are more likely to separate than if they are married to white partners.

[anotheoldgit]

/// No he would behave like a white South African, as someone born here would adopt the local culture. ///

Yes a white South African maybe, but not a true indigenous South African.

[dannyk13]

AOG, now you are contradicting yourself.