A Poor Role Model For Black Folk?

[eyethenkyew]

The Tory peer Lord Taylor, it has just been announced, has been found guilty of false accounting, i.e. "fiddling expenses".

As one of the very few black peers, what kind of message does this send out to the black community who, we are often told, need positive role models?

[naomi24]

Why is it ugly? Isn't it only people's twisted minds that make words ugly? 'Folks' is just a word. Bugs Bunny uses it all the time.

[boxtops]

Baroness Udin was suspended last year, nobody commented at the time that she was a poor role model for people of Asian origin.

[sandyRoe]

And 'The folks that live on the hill,' is a nice song. When a racist talks of 'black folks' or 'coloured folks' you know it's used in a derogatory way.

[naomi24]

Sandy, So what? I'll bet my boots there aren't many people who haven't been verbally abused, or ridiculed, in some way during the course of their life. So what are we going to do? Ban talk of a nose that's big, or a spotty skin, or an ear that's 'cauliflower', or hair that's ginger, or too blonde - or even of extreme beauty because that isn't exempt? No. People just have to deal with it otherwise we're going to find ourselves climbing up our own bottoms with no visible means of escape because we can't please all of the people all of the time and it's hopeless trying. We're going on that way now, but the reality is we cannot make people like other people. We can legislate to stop them speaking their minds, but without education we cannot change their minds - and that is what political correctness is futilely aiming to do. I detest the utter stupidity of it.

Eddie, nothing is different - but he's black. Big deal!

That's all folks. ;o)

Night.