Thread: Black Lives Matter
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Old 16-06-2020, 13:06   #476
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Re: Black Lives Matter
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Totally agree - all this fuss over one statue...

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That’s not what the U.K. BLM movement’s about, no matter how many times you say it...
My support is for the US BLM. The British version was meant to be about discrimination by British police.

The statue wreckers are the anarchists who are just looking for aggro.

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Originally Posted by Russ View Post
Admittedly I've not read much of this thread but here's something that often vexes me. To the best of my knowledge I've not displayed racial attitudes to anyone. True, the Indian woman I was with for 10 years, I cannot stand the very fabric of her being but that's for a number of reasons, none of which are anywhere connected to her race. In fact we have a mixed race son together but that's all going off the point I'm making.

This could be down to my own perception, I accept that's a possibility but recently it has felt as if I (and other whites) ought to feel some sort of shame or embarrassment etc due to the racist attitudes and actions of some of my forefathers who may (or may not, I don't know much about them) have been racist, kept slaves etc. All of which would be abhorrent behaviour but is not something I feel I ought to apologise for, or display shame etc.

It wasn't me, and had I been around in those days I cannot imagine myself treating another human so disgustingly purely based on their race.
I agree, Russ. I think people are running out of ideas on what to protest about! It's all getting rather tiresome.
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