To Think This Is A Racist Comment, even for the DM?

[RubyFakeNails]

A friend alerted me to this article in the DM.

This section I think is particularly crass, with one sentence being racist.

"The highlight was undoubtedly an hilarious sketch featuring the Queen and James Bond which saw her Majesty ?parachute? into the stadium.

But it was the absurdly unrealistic scene ? and indeed one that would spring from the kind of nonsensical targets and equality quotas we see in the NHS - showing a mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home, which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.

This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.
Almost, if not every, shot in the next sequence included an ethnic minority performer. The BBC presenter Hazel Irvine gushed about the importance of grime music (a form of awful electronic music popular among black youths) to east London.

This multicultural equality agenda was so staged it was painful to watch.
And Conservative MP Aidan Burley was right to point out on Twitter that it was a load of 'leftie multicultural c**p'. Yet predictably he has been castigated by Twitter's Guadianista brigade.

Unfortunately the kind of politically driven multiculturalism we saw last night is the kind of social engineering we have come to expect."

I'm really offended by this as I can't see what evidence they have to make that comment, and as a white educated middle-aged woman living with an equally educated black man in a happy family set-up, maybe I am biased. Would like some opinions.

AIBU to make a complaint about this?

Is that the statistic MrBojangles? I knew I had heard it somewhere, I didn't realise it was London specific.

Also maybe he is just a blogger but the DM twitter was publicising the article (thankfully they have experienced angry responses).

Do you know, I read that piece with a sick feeling in my stomach. That rag and its writers get depressingly worse and worse. It really is a sick piece of shite.

Daily Filth. I'm going to complain too.

MrBojangles I'm in a mixed-race family and live in little old suburbia. It's fine- honest!
But I know what you mean, I get the same reservations about travelling into the deepest parts of the countryside. Although I'm sure people there are just fine too!

just at that article, what a load of bollocks

They've edited it!!!! Completely changed that paragraph! Won't let me copy and paste off the Mail site on my iPad, but check it out!

edit

Still a crap article. Should have deleted the whole thing IMO.

I knew they would do that, I took a screenshot and attached it as part of my complaint.

Well done Ruby. Fuckers.

Nice one Ruby, wish I'd thought to do that. Just quoted it in mine, but it's had so much prominence on Twitter etc, I'm guessing the PCC will be aware of it's original incarnation.

Bastards.

Haven't read the thread yet, but just jumping in to say (a) yes, it is racist, and (b) where does he LIVE? Even speaking from the sleepy suburbs, I can count in my close friendship circle the following mixed race couples:

two barristers
a hospital consultant and a chef
two professors
a venture capitalist and a City lawyer
a photographer and an Oxbridge professor
a civil servant and a writer

One of those couples is me and my dp. All of us are tediously respectable, mortgaged, getting on with raising our children like everyone else.

However, I do think his prejudice is very common. When I had my first child - white, like me - I became aware of a low key but definite shift in how strangers treated me - a definite rise in the social approbation I got, the smiles, the doors held open etc. When I had my second child - black - that changed. Some people make a point of smiling at me MORE, but overall I think I get less of that social approbation. And when I'm out with both children, I get less still. I truly think that this is, although I am obviously middle aged and middle class, for some it puts a definite question mark over my morals.

Oh, and my (white) gran was married to her (black) dh for 50 years.

So obviously being a thick slag runs in the blood

Back again, just to say that to me, a lifelong Londoner, last night's show reflected my reality more than any other state-sponsored jamboree I've ever seen.

It wasn't flawless, by any means, that it was exciting and moving and a beautiful portrayal of modern Britishness.

Good grief. "it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family" is clearly, starkly racist. Well done Ruby for grabbing that screen shot.

Miserable Mail, so desperate to smear the NHS they don't mind resorting to racism in the attempt.

It's sad but typical dm,, who buys it anyway?

Out here in Worcestershire plenty of mixed race families, so fukin what?

circulation 1.7m, readership 4.2m so quite a lot of people actually. Which means it's important to challenge anything they get wrong.

Devora I can't really comment about the difference as I've only ever had a black child, however I do think, particularly when my older children were younger, there was an assumption I was a single mother and that my children had different fathers, but this even came from my West Indian midwives.

I run my own business which is a creative company and dh works in corporate law, so while it is not our background, we are now very middle class and boring. We're also lifelong Londoners (apart from DHs stint in Jamaica) and it didn't even nether my head that it didn't represent reality.

White
Middle aged
Married to a black man
Live 20 mins from the stadium
Almost have my degree.
Does that mske me some weird anomaly in the eyes of the Dzm?
Jolly good.

DP is one of the mildest, unshockable, chaps I know. I asked him to read the offending paragraph and he wobbled back out of the room boggle eyed. He couldn't believe I'd not pulled up an edition of the Alabama Times. Circa 1953.

Hello to Ruby and Kingbeat in Hackney. I'm just over the border the other side of Old Street in Finsbury, so incredibly multi-racial as well.

YUK

I don't know any mixed race couples. Strangely enough one of the people sat watching it with me commented on how they were 'overdoing it a bit with this multicultural stuff'. As someone said up thread, the scenes in the event are truly representative of London life and culture however it's clear it isn't for other parts of the country. Hence why backward articles like this come about.

Its not just London thats abit multicultural where I live im a odd one out.

So not going to open that link and give it any more attention BUT just wanted to say that I went to senior school with a girl who was mixed race - white mum, black Dad, both professional, well-educated, middle class suburbia-dwellers. They would have got married in the 1960s, me being fairly Old and all - so in reality it's hardly a new situation.

Can't believe the Daily Shite still allows this bollocks space in its rag - just reminds me over and over how awful the attitudes are in the small-minded, and in the people who believe all the crap they write. :(

Dh and I just find it upsetting that people make judgments about us just based on being of different skin colours.

I understand London is highly multicultural but whenever I head out and about round the uk I see multiculturalism, I think all uk cities are very multicultural I can only imagine its rural areas that aren't but they are going to have lots of points different to London and I imagine it's only a matter of time that they have people of other cultures integrating.

It depends where you go. Not far from me there is an area which is say 90% Asian/Muslim. The neighbouring district is mainly white. So, you can call it multicultural, diverse or whatever you want but both communities do not mix, not in the way they would have it portrayed on the tv.
Then you see other areas where there is a fabulous fusion of race and cultures. Some people think that being multicultural means we all blend together and mix but that's not the reality IMO.