Is this racist?

up for anything · 27-07-2012 08:06AM

Shame on you all.

Not one person has gone into an angry 'non-racist' rant about Nigerians.

If he'd said that it would be nice to live next to people from home there'd be no thread.

It's natural that people flock together like birds of a feather especially when they don't feel so welcome. There was Kilburn once upon a time. Eventually they fan out and integrate though if someone 'worse' comes along. Otherwise they stay ghetto-ised.

jurahnimoh · 27-07-2012 08:16AM

Shouldn't it be regarded as racist if people are also referred to as white people?

Almaviva · 27-07-2012 08:23AM

Of course its not racist. He is black.
Only white people can be racist.

up for anything · 27-07-2012 08:45AM

Almaviva wrote: »

Only white people can be racist.

And newly embittered.

Pherekydes · 27-07-2012 08:45AM

viztopia wrote: »

Daly Thompson is a perfect example. If some Irish athlete had said a similar remark about a black person there would be uproar.

Daley Thompson said nothing about white people. Why do people keep saying he did? It's getting tiresome at this stage.

sh1tstirrer · 27-07-2012 09:00AM

I was watching the high chaparral last night. It was the episode with the buffalo soldiers they were singing eeny-meeny-miney-moe we finally caught Geronimo. When I was in school we learned that but it wasn't Geronimo we were catching. I suppose if you said what we used to say back then today you could end up in jail.

viztopia · 27-07-2012 09:10AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

viztopia wrote: »

Daly Thompson is a perfect example. If some Irish athlete had said a similar remark about a black person there would be uproar.

Daley Thompson said nothing about white people. Why do people keep saying he did? It's getting tiresome at this stage.

Who said he did? You should feel a little.less tiresome now.

Bad Panda · 27-07-2012 09:12AM

I don't want black neighbours.

I'm assuming the guy in the OP would have no problem with this statement. :rolleyes:

biko · 27-07-2012 09:14AM

Perhaps, but not a big deal. He probably just meant it will nice to be able to yap about Nigeria over the garden fence.

BBDBB · 27-07-2012 09:16AM

Nigerians, a great bunch of lads

Canis Lupus · 27-07-2012 09:21AM

viztopia wrote: »

Who said he did? You should feel a little.less tiresome now.

But... you said he did or rather inferred it strongly.

Plazaman · 27-07-2012 09:27AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Not racist and hardly worthy of a thread or even wondering whether it is racist or not in the first place.

:eek: Not allowing people to put up a thread about Racism.

*points finger

Racist!

rubadub · 27-07-2012 01:39PM

biko wrote: »

Perhaps, but not a big deal. He probably just meant it will nice to be able to yap about Nigeria over the garden fence.

+1, the OP would have to give his definition of racism first. Most people view it as a negative term. I just view it as being prejudiced, and do not think being prejudiced is automatically/necessarily a bad thing, it is often a sensible reasonable thing. Like prejudging that a big angry snarling dog might be dangerous, due to past experience & knowledge.

If my father heard an older couple were moving in next door he might be happy to have somebody to relate to more, and you might describe him as ageist. Prejudging that he might get on better with a 70 year old couple than a gang of students.

Or if my sister worked in an office full of 20 men and heard a woman was coming in you could call her sexist if she was happy to hear it.

B.A._Baracus · 27-07-2012 02:13PM

.... I honestly think there are more people who look for racism than actual racists in this world. :rolleyes:

and the mental thing is, its white people LOOKING for whats racist.

OldNotWIse · 27-07-2012 02:17PM

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

I was watching the high chaparral last night. It was the episode with the buffalo soldiers they were singing eeny-meeny-miney-moe we finally caught Geronimo. When I was in school we learned that but it wasn't Geronimo we were catching. I suppose if you said what we used to say back then today you could end up in jail.

I remember when they changed it to "catch a tigger" by his toe

CruelCoin · 27-07-2012 02:32PM

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

Nope.

My family is dutch. If i found a nice neighbourhood with a few dutch families in it, i'd have it down as a plus.
Nothing wrong with settling into an area you're more comfortable with.

Nodin · 27-07-2012 02:35PM

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

I'll be including this in my next edition of "Believable Stories"

AnonoBoy · 27-07-2012 02:44PM

If you moved to Nigeria and found out that the people renting next door to you were Irish I'd be you'd be furious though, wouldn't you?

"I want to be special and different! I don't want any other Paddy crackers here ruining my specialness!"

cocoshovel · 27-07-2012 03:13PM

Eat da poopoo!

Oranage2 · 27-07-2012 03:13PM

Black people are so racist - someone should educate them that the correct term is 'African American'.

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 03:24PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Black people are so racist - someone should educate them that the correct term is 'African American'.

And when they're not from Africa? :pac:

IrishAm · 27-07-2012 03:28PM

Very common in the UK.

There's a need for flexibility in how discrimination law is applied as some groups are more vulnerable than others, says Penny Anderson, author of the Renter Girl blog. "A landlord saying no to a Muslim woman is wrong. But I think a group of Muslim women turning down a white man is OK."

A woman who placed a "Filipino only" advert in a newsagent in Golders Green, north London, explains: "I'm sorry about that. All the people here are Filipino so we need Filipinos."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18588612

Madame K · 27-07-2012 03:55PM

Pkiernan wrote: »

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

With this level of racism nit-picking, you'd be too desensitized to recognize racism if it walked up, called you [CENSORED] and spit your face.

Madame K · 27-07-2012 03:59PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Black people are so racist - someone should educate them that the correct term is 'African American'.

But what if they are not American born people of African descent?

Pherekydes · 27-07-2012 03:59PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Balbriggan?

No, Lagos. :pac:

Oranage2 · 27-07-2012 04:04PM

Madame K wrote: »

But what if they are not American born people of African descent?

Chinese?

ThunbergsAreGo · 27-07-2012 04:04PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Very common in the UK.

h ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18588612

Racism double standards is something i really dislike and seems to be becoming more prevelant in society

artvanderlay · 27-07-2012 04:49PM

The only solution is to lynch all racists. That'll learn 'em:)

mikemac1 · 27-07-2012 04:52PM

Open a KFC franchise in the town
Sit back and wait
€€€€€€€

Is that racist?

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 04:53PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Open a KFC franchise in the town
Sit back and wait
€€€€€€€

Is that racist?

I saw two blacks outside a chicken place on my road about 6PM

Disgusting.

Wanna know what was disgusting?

They had the same chicken since they opened at 9AM

Is this racist?

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