Racism

I really like Cardiff and wouldn't mind moving there some day :up:

I also love Kenya, best place I have ever visited :up:

I have family of mixed race. This week being Thanksgiving it is a sad situation that the maternal grandfather will not share a meal with us as these kids will be there. The children of my dead niece. 6 and 8. Two beautiful little girls and the daughters of his own daughter. He has two grandsons from a mixed race too. Hispanic/Latin but they are fine because they are mostly white.

His other daughter married a guy from Taiwan (lived here since he was 2) and there is no problem there.

Just because they are half African American. The good 'ole south. Time has stood still for this man. He is only 62 so he can't say he lived through anything.

I find such attitudes completely impossible to comprehend. I mean, his own family?!

Yeah, shocking :(

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Originally Posted by glauistean

I have family of mixed race. This week being Thanksgiving it is a sad situation that the maternal grandfather will not share a meal with us as these kids will be there. ....

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That's really sad, but eveyone's probably better off without him being there if that's his attitude.

However, I think there's a big difference between that and the example in the first post. I wouldn't call that racism, more just plain old stupidity. People are always opening their mouth without engaging their brain, but I don't think it's a good idea to label them because of stupid comments.

I'm a foreigner in the country I live in, so if I get into discussion it often arrives to the "well that may be what you think, but in this country..." I don't think of it as prejudice. People should be allowed a little leeway to be a bit stupid, or else you'll have people getting arrested because of idle comments...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/n...hambers-appeal

My favourite racists - if that's not oxymoronic - are those fat sunburnt English to move to the Costa del Sol, find a bar which shows Sky Sports and serves a full English breakfast, read The Sun, call the waiters "Oi Pedro" and moan about how that had to move out of Britain because of all the bloody foreigners coming over here.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

My favourite racists - if that's not oxymoronic - are those fat sunburnt English to move to the Costa del Sol, find a bar which shows Sky Sports and serves a full English breakfast, read The Sun, call the waiters "Oi Pedro" and moan about how that had to move out of Britain because of all the bloody foreigners coming over here.

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I must admit, when I go to greece and i hear about british tourists on a club 18:30 holiday trashing things in town and being offensive to the locals, it makes me quite embarrassed to be British...

The girl was joking but I'm afraid foreigners can't understand our humour. I reckon it's a bit unusual for you but it used to help us during tough times.

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Originally Posted by race aficionado

Racism sucks.


:s mokin:

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Yea but it can e funny.

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

I overheard a couple last evening, standing in line to get a table at a restaurant. I'm guessing brother and sister, because she was asking the guy about his time studying in the UK etc. Didn't seem like a couple, anyway the conversation went like this:

Guy: So, on one of the off days, it was 2 Swedish guys, and us two Romanians, and 4 Kenyan guys, we went for a trip to Cardiff.

Girl: Oh, 4 Kenyan guys. Ha ha, so each one of you got a slave each, ha ha. Did you have the leash on them?

Guy: That's not funny.

Girl: Oh come on, you know you're laughing.

Guy: Still not funny.
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Is it still 2010 or did I just time travel back some 100 odd years? :confused:

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You think that's bad?

The weekend just gone I walked past a conversation which involved a guy who finished work covered in grime and said: "I need to go home and wash myself, I look like a n***** blackie"