Interracial Relationships

Hagar · 09-03-2010 05:36PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath got a lot of racial abuse growing up in Dublin also.

Not sure if that's 100% true. I heard Phil being interviewed about growing up in Dublin and was asked if he got grief for being coloured. His response was "When I was a kid in Crumlin if you were black you were black and if youi had big ears you had big ears. It wasn't a big deal".

Another journalist asked him what it felt like being black and Irish?

“Kinda like a pint a Guinness.”

fontanalis · 09-03-2010 05:38PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

Your opinion was terrible to be fair.

Wazdakka · 09-03-2010 05:40PM

I've always wanted to nail a black chick actually...
Is there any particular club or anything where they hang out?
I haven't seen any black girls in ages when I'm on the piss.

Go for it OP..
Give her a good hoofing on behalf of the anons in AH.

DrumSteve · 09-03-2010 05:41PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

who says i asked you for pics it was a joke reference to the OP post.

also could you please explain to me the reason why you think we should stick to our own kind?

TheZohanS · 09-03-2010 05:41PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Interesting.

Can you please elaborate?

JCDUB · 09-03-2010 05:43PM

69 wrote: »

coloured

I thought this expression was no longer cool these days??

I'm not giving out btw.I dunno, it changes every few weeks..

I couldn't care less what two strangers get up to, more power to them if they're having a fun relationship no matter what colour, creed or sex they are.

There are hot chicks in every race in the world, and if a guy is fortunate enough to find one then fair play to him.

Joey the lips · 09-03-2010 05:43PM

There will always be small minded bastards who for no reason will find a reason to hate someone who looks happy. Its not necessarilary the street gang hanging around the corner. It can be the fat swine of a couch potato who thinks the world owes them a favor.

I have no problem in interracial relationships. However weather the person is black white yellow or blue its natural for a person to develop an inbuilt bias to someone. I imagine as a parent I will be biased towards anyone who dates my sons or daughters.

However like any parent my ultimate dream is to see my kids happy and if s/he is happy in there relationship then I will embrace whom ever they hook up with...

btw the word halfcast is totally contra to the look of the person for example no matter how half cast thadia newton is I would not last long with her, She is seriously hot...

bigeasyeah · 09-03-2010 05:44PM

To me people are just people-some good, some bad, some sexy.
The problem here is that there is too much empathisis put on race and colour,probably because its the current taboo subject.
Drawing such attention to such trivial differences, no matter with what intentions,will only strengthen divide.

OutlawPete · 09-03-2010 05:44PM

69 wrote: »

Not sure if that's 100% true. I heard Phil being interviewed about growing up in Dublin and was asked if he got grief for being coloured. His response was "When I was a kid in Crumlin if you were black you were black and if youi had big ears you had big ears. It wasn't a big deal".

Another journalist asked him what it felt like being black and Irish?

“Kinda like a pint a Guinness.”

I was going by what his mother said after he died. She said he got regualr racial abuse and hid it and that there were people on the streets who would shout things out and it made him feel low.

He was a sound guy and not the type to go on TV and complain, it just wasn't him.

Paul McGrath grew up in a similar area and had it very tough. Even spent time in St Pats with depression. Football saved him he said.

Fallen Buckshot · 09-03-2010 05:44PM

ok interracial is ok but hows about say.. Interracial and homosexual .. is that too taboo ? :P

alwaysadub · 09-03-2010 05:46PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

btw the word halfcast is totally contra to the look of the person for example no matter how half cast thadia newton is I would not last long with her, She is seriously hot...

Nope you definitely wouldn't last long with her considering her name is Thandie:D

Hagar · 09-03-2010 05:48PM

He wouldn't even last with Jessica Tandy.

aDeener · 09-03-2010 05:50PM

Hazys wrote: »

Lol black women strutting their stuff on the street(s) of Buttevant!

Haha Buttevant is some sh1thole, made my life hell for a year travelling from Cork to Galway. I love the racist country view point btw

aye because ive only ever been to buttevant :rolleyes:

how is what i have said racist? :rolleyes: i did not tar all black women with the one brush, i said "from what i have seen". that is liable to change

Jessica-Rabbit · 09-03-2010 06:00PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

if you don't mind me asking what century are you from

Jessica-Rabbit · 09-03-2010 06:01PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

+1 DrumSteve:)

09-03-2010 06:07PM

Black people in general get quite a lot of abuse (or at least attention) in Ireland, as do most foreign looking people. I hear so many white people say racism isn't a problem in Ireland - well of course it isn't, if you're white! It isn't until they start going out with or hanging around with someone of a different race that they notice how much of a problem it is. I got quite a lot of hassle in Dublin and I'm white, just very tanned. My ex got a lot of ' where did ya meet the foreign bird' comments, a lot of them were positive, but nevertheless we attracted attention, and I have an Irish accent. I was out with black friends on a few occasions and they got surprising amounts of hassle getting into places and stuff like that. I wouldn't feel overly comfortable being in an interracial relationship with a black guy in Dublin, tbh. Not that it'd stop me, but I'd always feel self conscious and wary walking down the street etc.

pickarooney · 09-03-2010 06:10PM

Is the OP not in Leicester (not that it changes the discussion that much)?

ejmaztec · 09-03-2010 06:16PM

Jessica-Rabbit wrote: »

if you don't mind me asking what century are you from

He's probably really KKK Fitzgerald.

ejmaztec · 09-03-2010 06:18PM

Sums up my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYrz_3pfgs

Hagar · 09-03-2010 06:18PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is the OP not in Leicester (not that it changes the discussion that much)?

Very good point, he might be the only whitey around.

prinz · 09-03-2010 06:20PM

[quote=[Deleted User];64831037]Black people in general get quite a lot of abuse (or at least attention) in Ireland, as do most foreign looking people. I hear so many white people say racism isn't a problem in Ireland - well of course it isn't, if you're white![/QUOTE]

Oh it's a problem alright, white or not. My wife has been at the butt end of it a number of times and she's German. We've lost count of the amount of comments and problems she's had over being Polish/Latvian/Romanian.. immigrant.. etc. Right here in friendly happy Ireland.

DrumSteve · 09-03-2010 06:22PM

Jessica-Rabbit wrote: »

+1 DrumSteve:)

cant see him explaining this one away for some reason.

ejmaztec · 09-03-2010 06:24PM

prinz wrote: »

Oh it's a problem alright, white or not. My wife has been at the butt end of it a number of times and she's German. We've lost count of the amount of comments and problems she's had over being Polish/Latvian/Romanian.. immigrant.. etc. Right here in friendly happy Ireland.

The hundred thousand welcomes got used up a long time ago.:eek:

09-03-2010 06:27PM

I'd be interested to know how many people really are afraid about the 'races mixing' and all that. It's one argument I've never understood. So what if the races mix? Why would it be such a terrible thing if the 'white race' (and what is white anyway, a Portuguese person is hardly the same colour as a Swede) died out? Why would it be so awful if everyone was light brown? It's just skin colour. In a couple of generations, the black people in Ireland will be as fully integrated as anyone else. What is the obsession with white people needing to remain pasty skinned and blue eyed? I hear this 'we don't want whites to die out' stuff from many people who wouldn't consider themselves racist. It just smacks to me of Aryan types considering themselves as pure breeds who don't want their descendants to be mongrels. I just don't really get it. My parents and even my English grandparents, who are quite anti-foreigners in terms of asylum seekers and such, would not bad an eyelid if their grandchildren were half black. Who cares?

fontanalis · 09-03-2010 06:30PM

[quote=[Deleted User];64831429]I'd be interested to know how many people really are afraid about the 'races mixing' and all that. It's one argument I've never understood. So what if the races mix? Why would it be such a terrible thing if the 'white race' (and what is white anyway, a Portuguese person is hardly the same colour as a Swede) died out? Why would it be so awful if everyone was light brown? It's just skin colour. In a couple of generations, the black people in Ireland will be as fully integrated as anyone else. What is the obsession with white people needing to remain pasty skinned and blue eyed? I hear this 'we don't want whites to die out' stuff from many people who wouldn't consider themselves racist. It just smacks to me of Aryan types considering themselves as pure breeds who don't want their descendants to be mongrels. I just don't really get it. My parents and even my English grandparents, who are quite anti-foreigners in terms of asylum seekers and such, would not bad an eyelid if their grandchildren were half black. Who cares?[/QUOTE]

I remember someone saying how Donegal was great because the women were pure Aryan, had to remind him that the Irish for Donegal meant Fort of the foreigner. It's also amazing how the same people if they had their way sure as hell wouldn't have all "white" people as equal.

Red Alert · 09-03-2010 06:30PM

I've noticed that there are more black guy / white girl and white guy / asian girl relationships in general than the other way round.

Never dated anyone of a different race - wouldn't have a problem with it at all though.

IrishManSaipan · 09-03-2010 06:36PM

[quote=[Deleted User];64831429] Why would it be such a terrible thing if the 'white race' (and what is white anyway, a Portuguese person is hardly the same colour as a Swede) died out? [/QUOTE]

Wooooo. Nice choice of words there, "die out".

Who cares if the great whale dies out, eh?

I thought one of the great advantages of "diversity" was all the different colours and creeds of humanity. Yet, you want one to die out?

If a poster said "who cares if the black/brown/whatever race died out" there would be uproar. Now, before you start, I couldnt give a flying foook about race mixing. Just a bit peeved at the double standards.

Raekwon · 09-03-2010 06:37PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is the OP not in Leicester (not that it changes the discussion that much)?

Yeah noticed that myself, I'd say the options to pick up a hot black girl over there are about a thousand times greater then over here. The only black women I'd see are 30 something African mothers. Where are all of these ladies? They're about as rare here as hen's teeth unfortunately

I'd actually say it does change the discussion because there are actually not enough black people in Ireland for people to be debating about interracial relationships. Most people don't have first hand experience and are either basing their opinions on second hand experience or making blind racist statements.

dave 27 · 09-03-2010 06:39PM

i think the issue with people is not about black people mixing with white people, its xenophobia, and its very strong in ireland as i guess we dont want to see a change in our culture/society, so peoples natural reaction is to be against it

09-03-2010 06:40PM

fontanalis wrote: »

I remember someone saying how Donegal was great because the women were pure Aryan, had to remind him that the Irish for Donegal meant Fort of the foreigner. It's also amazing how the same people if they had their way sure as hell wouldn't have all "white" people as equal.

Yes, indeed. I'm sure if they had it their way, Italians, Spaniards and Greeks would never be classed as white. I know most Irish people don't consider me white. I always get asked what I write on forms and I always reply 'what the hell else would I write?' Aside from my quarter Italianness, the rest is Irish/English yet that one drop of 'foreign' blood is enough to override the fact I'm 3/4 'Aryan' as they say. It's pretty scary how people think. And I'm officially 100% white so I can only imagine how an actual mixed race person would feel. Sometimes it really does feel like a dog show, the pure breeds sneering at us mongrels with dirty coats. Some of the comments my own friends have come out with have really shocked me.

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