Keith Sansum1
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10 October 2010
09:5574412BERN;
I was chair of a community group way back those dreary days when those in authority were getting it badly wrong.
I ended up holding a public meetng in the local community hall to take away some of the tensions.
And our community group meeting the then Home Secretary Jack Straw n Dover to explan concerns.
These type of decisions need to thought out on how they affect others and as has been said the knock on effect.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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10 October 2010
10:0174413Bern, I once watched an edition of a serious talk show when a Muslim councillor from a Northern town declared that he could not possibly be racist because he was black.
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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10 October 2010
10:0374415I understand that comment
Although he probably said a lot more
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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10 October 2010
10:0774417Yes he did, he wanted white families moved out of his ward as they were apparently upsetting the Muslims with their Christian practices.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
10 October 2010
11:5074419Wasn't our own Home Sec once almost thrown out of a British area because he "offended" some of the minorities there. Or was it just one person who felt he should represent the minorities and heckle?
Incidentally, in response to Peter, my comments in no way indicated that it was only white English who were stupid and failed to understand racism - they are just there as a reminder that we have come a long way with a bit more to go. That includes everyone!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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10 October 2010
14:1874423All these guys/girls who are hgh profile tv will pick up on one person, probably the rest were happy at the meeting but good news isnt always news worthy
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11 October 2010
14:0374507The joke always used to be that the Foreign Office were not on 'our side'. Skimming the headlines in the Daily Express today one wonders if the Home Office has not also 'gone native'.
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11 October 2010
16:2674521Bern, with regards to your post 20, I thought of posting this one, which does not reflect something I am trying to explain as right or wrong, but as a fact of society in Britain, from very recent history:
When ex-Empire immigrants started moving to London, they settled in some areas, and became may-be 10-20% of the local population in that area. The British people then started moving out in mass because they didn't want to live there any more because of so many immigrants. The outcome was that within a decade, whole areas of London became inhabited almost entirely by people from Pakistan-India.
Well, this is just a snap-shot of British reality, whether it is racism - let's leave that for the great scientists of human phsychology to determine - but it is simply there, and what do you intend doing about it, Bern, telling the British people off who moved away? Sorry, I was only giving a snap-shot of our very recent history.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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11 October 2010
16:2974522As for the so-called lazy unemployed British people, well, you know what, folks, let's just see whose benefits get cut first, those of the middle working class with children, or those of the unemployed 'lazy' class.
But, somewhere along the line, I think that the two groups understand eachother, and will not be lured into a class-war. The tactic of putting the poor and soon-to-be-poor at war with each-other won't work!
