Stevo985 Posted December 22, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2019 20 minutes ago, PompeyVillan said: I have to say, I admire Gary Neville for having the courage to talk candidly about racism on Sky. They'll be looking to drop him now. They basically gave a disclaimer immediately after he said what he said today, presumably fearing they'd offended actual racists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 10 hours ago, Stevo985 said: They basically gave a disclaimer immediately after he said what he said today, presumably fearing they'd offended actual racists. I think it was more the political point he was making...despite it being factually accurate that the glorious leader of the nation has said numerous racist things, refused to apologise and has thereby given license to every bigotted rocket polisher in the land to say and do as they please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Aye. And some of them choose to give Sky about a thousand pounds a year so you know, let's just throw Gary under the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 23, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 23, 2019 I do wish Americans would stop referring to black British people as 'African American'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 39 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I do wish Americans would stop referring to black British people as 'African American'. But it's techically correct. They have African heritage, and we're all American subjects, aren't we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Fair play to the taxi driver for handling it like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted June 3, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2020 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 3, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: #alllivesmatter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 11 hours ago, KentVillan said: Fair play to the taxi driver for handling it like that. Saw that last night The amazing thing is the drivers composure, the sad thing is that composure is likely to be the result of previous abuse Also saw people trying to defend it and suggest that it's not the uk because he says dollar, or that its not their part of the UK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 On 23/12/2019 at 23:04, mjmooney said: I do wish Americans would stop referring to black British people as 'African American'. Have to be honest the entire term is weird to me. Why can't you just call them US citizens, north Americans or even Americans. If colour is needed to highlight wouldn't black even be better? You don't run around saying British Americans or British Australian? If so I've at least never heard it. Shit, you could argue Norwegian British should be a term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Have to be honest the entire term is weird to me. Why can't you just call them US citizens, north Americans or even Americans. If colour is needed to highlight wouldn't black even be better? You don't run around saying British Americans or British Australian? If so I've at least never heard it. Shit, you could argue Norwegian British should be a term. British Asians. It happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 7 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Have to be honest the entire term is weird to me. Why can't you just call them US citizens, north Americans or even Americans. If colour is needed to highlight wouldn't black even be better? You don't run around saying British Americans or British Australian? If so I've at least never heard it. Shit, you could argue Norwegian British should be a term. Its not your choice, it’s theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Its not your choice, it’s theirs. Lets ask Jordan Peterson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 16 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Lets ask Jordan Peterson That's a different argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 4 hours ago, villa4europe said: Also saw people trying to defend it and suggest that it's not the uk because he says dollar, did the part where racist man said "this is England" not give those people a clue ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: did the part where racist man said "this is England" not give those people a clue ? And that's he's blatantly from Birmingham. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Add in the mirroring effect from the filming making the steering wheel appear on the wrong side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straggler Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Some stuff I didn't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Interested to hear some views on the below. Studies suggest that for a number of reason ethnic group such as Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Black African suffer from income poverty in this country a lot more than Indians and White. I believe Black Caribbeans are at the lower end too. Why do you think this is? Surely all groups would have suffered from the same racial barriers? I was thinking about this and maybe it’s down to being because those from India and the Caribbean came to the UK when there was a massive labour shortage so were able to earn a good living and pass this on to next generations? Whilst other ethnic groups may have come to the country later whilst it was falling on more difficult times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 7 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Have to be honest the entire term is weird to me. Why can't you just call them US citizens, north Americans or even Americans. If colour is needed to highlight wouldn't black even be better? You don't run around saying British Americans or British Australian? If so I've at least never heard it. Shit, you could argue Norwegian British should be a term. Tbf a lot of people in this country whilst proud to be British are also proud of their heritage. So would prefer to be labelled as terms such as British Indian or British Pakistani rather than just British. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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