Even limping with Pegida (here the English Defence League) one doesn't find much outright racism. People are concerned about their own economic situation, fears of Asian mobbing and actually disgusting practices in child abuse, female castration, forced marriages, honour killings, kids not being able to move into their own housing, cooking smells, noise, crime, not feeling at home in their own streets and the swamping of school, welfare and health services. The lack of jobs, depression of wages and much more is on people's minds. These people may be right of wrong. For years, they have been considered wrong and racist, though in the main, they are the people I've found actually living with these problems and with other cultures at their doorstep.
We are told that immigration is good for us and that high-level skills are imported. 440 Germans died to a man at Waterloo after emigrating here, the NHS is staffed by Asian and other 'third world' staff trained abroad. All this stuff has hidden content, not least on how it is we can't train our own people, even to run corner shops, drive taxis and run fast food businesses - and how third world countries don't need the doctors and nurses. People who would never dream of open racist comment attend church and do almost anything not to have their white kids attend predominately ethnic schools. Faith schools are built, so keen are some to integrate. Politicians of the right have sensed the dissatisfaction and have moved to UKIP. No one remembers, but the UK had a major civil war over 'race' (religion) in Northern Ireland based on many of these factors between the privileged Proddies and exploited Provos. This scales up on a per capita basis to 100,000 mainland deaths or half-a-million in the USA. Idi Amin exiled 80,000 Asians and Fiji had a military coup. Israel has chronic apartheid. Black people are unhappy in various ghettos and often in prison in the US. I've seen far more racism abroad than in the West. We haven't done enough to get rid of it. Yet we seem to assume this is a white on others matter and it is not. The problems in my view are deeply economic and ideological. They are so deep I doubt we can eat a tin of tuna or make a mobile phone call without being involved in this 'racism'. And very deep in this 'racism' quickly re-emerges in peoples who have lived peacefully side by side for years. On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:36:32 AM UTC, archytas wrote: > > Martin Luther King is in our thoughts at this time of year. I've never > been able to hack racism, yet feel there is little honest discussion of the > matter. It is still in place all over the world, though in the UK it is > not as obvious as in my youth and there have been improvements. I have two > problems in mind: > > 1. The situation is rarely viewed from the perspective of poor indigenous > people suffering housing problems, work and wage pressures - now including > many ethnic minorities > 2. The meritocracy system we have is based on a flawed concept and is > easily cheated by educational advantages, inheritance and class-based > networking. > > Few here are now openly race prejudiced, yet it remains easy to see many > problems remain. I won't be watching either of the next two soccer world > cups because they are in profoundly racist countries, but most don't care > enough to boycott such. Any views out there? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
