dutchcherry
First Team
You'd think white people born in the 50s have had it hard if you listened to all their whinging. Truth is no group of people have ever, or probably will ever, have it easier than them.
You'd think white people born in the 50s have had it hard if you listened to all their whinging. Truth is no group of people have ever, or probably will ever, have it easier than them.
Boasting on behalf of previous generations again Bill? People born in the 50s was the point.
They did have to eat spam and Black Forest gateaux and watch ‘it ain’t half hot mum’ so it wasn’t all a walk in the park
There was Health and Efficiency too I recall.Oh and by the way, all we had was Playboy magazine. That's it. If you wanted to see a t$%te, you had National Geographic in the library, if your Dad didn't get it.
See, its all about quality of life.
Black people are just as much racists towards whites. Maybe worse.
Hyperbole tends to dilute arguments and SDD and I have slipped into that a bit, I fear. KC, perhaps too, although I suspect he has better local knowledge than most.Mmmm...
Yes, every race has racists, of course, but in light of the West's history with industrial scale global slavery and subsequent attitudes to other races post-slavery (right up to today), I'm calling bullshit on that statement.
Black people are just as much racists towards whites. Maybe worse.
You English people were always ahead of us! No, we didn't have those. Now we did have the Sears catalog!Woo Hoo!There was Health and Efficiency too I recall.
So that makes it ok??
If you're really justifying a position because "well they do it" that's a pretty weak position. Also, assuming you're in Kenya, you're in a situation where you are no longer a beneficiary of privilege. Strange that whilst not being part of the "elite" you'd still choose to punch down rather than up
...The racial polarization here...
Tbf, I am using my US experience. In Canada, we are exposed to many of the same arguments, but on a much smaller scale. French-English tensions were a much more serious issue years ago, for reasons discussed in my two-part thread For the Love of Your Team, in June 2019. We do have a federal election coming, and there is a whiff of the populist thinking on display. But notwithstanding our geographic, cultural and economic ties with our neighbors south of the border, our histories are not at all similar.Canada or the USA?
Whites are still considered elites in most of sub Saharan Africa based on the perception of most locals that we sh*t golden eggs and dollar bills .
...The racial polarization here is stoked by media on either side. It's certainly not Mississippi in the 1960's, but the distrust is undeniable. You blame "the West" .... and yet it is the same West that is expected to open its doors and take on the economic consequences, all the while being culturally vilified by some of those same people.
OK, whatever part the media does or doesn't play, the reality is that the USA is racist.
Lynchings and the KKK may not be en vogue these days but you surely don't need me to list the obvious current inequalities and examples of racism in the USA.
As for 'blaming the west'... I didn't 'blame' anybody. I referenced the past 400 years of history to point out that the claim black people are more racist than whites is complete and utter bullshit.
I may have missed something....who said black people are more racist than whites??
Black people are just as much racists towards whites. Maybe worse.