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Why So Few Black And Asian People At Glastonbury?
Lenny Henry, that stalwart champion of 'diversity', says he is “always surprised” by the lack of black and brown people at Glastonbury, as he called for better representation of ethnic minorities in all facets of British society.
Are they prevented from buying tickets - or is it that they just don't fancy living for several days in a tent in a muddy field?
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Are they prevented from buying tickets - or is it that they just don't fancy living for several days in a tent in a muddy field?
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Much like Diane Abbott (who is a racist), David Lammy and a few others, Lenny Henry sees racism in pretty much everything, but to crowbar a racist slant into black people choosing not to attend Glastonbury is absurd.
10:36 Sun 19th Jun 2022
Something else I’ve just thought of khandro - adverts almost never ever reflect ‘real life’.
Think about your average car ad…you never see the new BMW struggling through a tailback on the M3; or people dealing with hangovers in adverts for Guinness…and in the Waitrose Christmas ads, all the food is perfectly cooked and no family member is throwing a strop.
Television ads are ads, not documentaries.
Think about your average car ad…you never see the new BMW struggling through a tailback on the M3; or people dealing with hangovers in adverts for Guinness…and in the Waitrose Christmas ads, all the food is perfectly cooked and no family member is throwing a strop.
Television ads are ads, not documentaries.
Spicerack
The NAACP was founded in 1909 when the word ‘coloured’ was the accepted word to use for African Americans.
The reason I said I’d not heard that term since the 70s is because for people my age and younger, the phrase has pretty much fallen out of existence.
I think it’s generally used by older people.
The NAACP was founded in 1909 when the word ‘coloured’ was the accepted word to use for African Americans.
The reason I said I’d not heard that term since the 70s is because for people my age and younger, the phrase has pretty much fallen out of existence.
I think it’s generally used by older people.
//‘he liked living where he does now because of all the white faces’.
So do I. So what?//
Precisely, spicey.
I imagine there are large numbers of black folk in Brixton and Lewisham who love it there because they are among their own kind. It’s not racist - it’s the way people are. And so to this:
//Let's face it, how many white folks would you see at a heavy reggae gig?//
I lived for many years in North London. There was a club at Dalston Junction called the Four Aces. It was a black music venue. In fact it is described as “…a pioneering music and recreational space in the 1960s and 1970s the club became one of the first venues to play black music in the United Kingdom.” It was frequented exclusively by black people. White people simply did not go there. Nobody thought anything of it. Its output just did not appeal to white people and nobody hassled the club to present itself as more “inclusive”, “representative” or any other such nonsense.
This country (or those who see it as their duty to take offence on behalf of others, usually where none exists) needs to realise that different people like different things and those likes are often split along racial lines.
So do I. So what?//
Precisely, spicey.
I imagine there are large numbers of black folk in Brixton and Lewisham who love it there because they are among their own kind. It’s not racist - it’s the way people are. And so to this:
//Let's face it, how many white folks would you see at a heavy reggae gig?//
I lived for many years in North London. There was a club at Dalston Junction called the Four Aces. It was a black music venue. In fact it is described as “…a pioneering music and recreational space in the 1960s and 1970s the club became one of the first venues to play black music in the United Kingdom.” It was frequented exclusively by black people. White people simply did not go there. Nobody thought anything of it. Its output just did not appeal to white people and nobody hassled the club to present itself as more “inclusive”, “representative” or any other such nonsense.
This country (or those who see it as their duty to take offence on behalf of others, usually where none exists) needs to realise that different people like different things and those likes are often split along racial lines.
//I imagine there are large numbers of black folk in Brixton and Lewisham who love it there because they are among their own kind. It’s not racist - it’s the way people are.//
You admit to imagining which is just as well because you don’t really know what you’re talking about. I grew up in Southwark and Brixton and know for a fact that those areas of London are actually very diverse. Brixton and Lewisham are NOT exclusively black. There are white, black and Muslim families living side by side
You admit to imagining which is just as well because you don’t really know what you’re talking about. I grew up in Southwark and Brixton and know for a fact that those areas of London are actually very diverse. Brixton and Lewisham are NOT exclusively black. There are white, black and Muslim families living side by side
//Brixton and Lewisham are NOT exclusively black.//
I didn't say they were. I have also lived in Brixton - just off Brixton Hill behind the prison and I also have the misfortune of having to pass through that area quite regularly. So it's not entirely true to say I don't know what I'm talking about. If you wander round Brixton Market, Electric Avenue and the Acre Lane area, particularly at night, you will not see much of the diversity you mention and those out and about will most certainly not be reflective of the published ethnic make up of the borough as a whole. That's why many black people feel comfortable there.
I didn't say they were. I have also lived in Brixton - just off Brixton Hill behind the prison and I also have the misfortune of having to pass through that area quite regularly. So it's not entirely true to say I don't know what I'm talking about. If you wander round Brixton Market, Electric Avenue and the Acre Lane area, particularly at night, you will not see much of the diversity you mention and those out and about will most certainly not be reflective of the published ethnic make up of the borough as a whole. That's why many black people feel comfortable there.
NJ
You still don’t know what you’re talking about. Empirical evidence is just that.
Lambeth:
Black people make up a quarter of the population (25%). Lambeth's largest non-white ethnic group is black African (11.5%), followed by black Caribbean (9.8%). Lambeth has the second largest proportion of black Caribbean people in London (9.5%) after Lewisham (11%).
Brixton:
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You still don’t know what you’re talking about. Empirical evidence is just that.
Lambeth:
Black people make up a quarter of the population (25%). Lambeth's largest non-white ethnic group is black African (11.5%), followed by black Caribbean (9.8%). Lambeth has the second largest proportion of black Caribbean people in London (9.5%) after Lewisham (11%).
Brixton:
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Their own kind statement can be challenged because there are many factors which determine someone’s housing preferences:
1. Affordability
2. Work demands
3. Family connections
4. Access to preferred schools
5. Closeness to friends
To argue that community adhesion is based simply on race is overly simplistic.
Imagine saying that white people like to stick together to the exclusion of others. That would be an insult.
Surely few people are THAT backward in 2022!
1. Affordability
2. Work demands
3. Family connections
4. Access to preferred schools
5. Closeness to friends
To argue that community adhesion is based simply on race is overly simplistic.
Imagine saying that white people like to stick together to the exclusion of others. That would be an insult.
Surely few people are THAT backward in 2022!
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