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Originally Posted by Tuftus
Rubbish. Here is my take on the whole debacle, in the most PC way I can put it without offending a whole bunch of people.
Some hoodie who just happens to be coloured got shot because he was carrying an illegal firearm in public. Peaceful protest / shrine follows.
The other 'gangsta' masses rise up and create havoc. They get free TV's and trainers. They create a bandwagon. More and more 'gangsta' types see that they can do the same by seeing this bandwagon, they jump on it. The bandwagon goes postal...
Now, I said that I would be as PC as possible, is it just me that when i was watching the footage that the vast majority of the looters / rioters / bandwagon jumpers were coloured? Yet, they are the first ones to whinge that they are 'stop and searched'. I find it laughable.
You will probably call me out to be a racist etc, but that's what I saw and yes i have coloured friends etc etc etc
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Not having a go, but you might want to get out of the habit of calling black people coloured..
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"It's wrong," says Toyin Agbetu of Ligali, an African-British human rights organisation. "Because it strips me of my identity and reduces me to the most superficial physical identifier, as opposed to my African ethnicity."
The term was common parlance in the 1960s, but its origins are the problem, says Mr Agbetu. It comes from the ideology of racism, that white people are white, and everyone else is somehow other coloured. It fails to recognise that everyone has an ethnicity and is an inadequate "one-size-fits all" description.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6132672.stm
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When I was younger, describing someone of African origin as coloured was a respectful step up from the more common descriptions used in this country, but the world has moved on since then.. For now being called black or white seems to be acceptable, but for how long is anyone's guess. I suppose it's something that isn't perfect, and will just keep evolving until there's no such distinction, but by then we'll have found something else we don't like about each other to pick on.
Anyways.. topic for another thread..