To say it's mainly a 'white voice' on this forum?

[Wonderingg]

I have been on the site for a few weeks now. I have noticed that it is possibly dominated by white women. If I am wrong please let me know, however I personally do not hear any black or asian voices. Or anything relating to those communities whether it be food, culture, clothing, traditions or issues specifically found in those communities.

I can't see how you can tell anything from a screen.

My DC go to school with British children, they have the a white voice, they follow our customs. But each one of my DC has one of their best friends that is not white.

I always think white is such a strange way to describe a person as is black, as really we are all just various shades of peach/beige/brown!

Am not black or asian but am not "white british" either.
There are lots of us of all shades in between from the far africa, the Americas, or who have lived extensively overseas or are immigrants in the UK, naturalized etc.....

We may sound that eay to you but its because we are civil, posting on a british website and with common ground related to our ties to Britain.

You are f

Oops...

You have probably not been here long enough to see.

I am an English/Irish/French/Polish/Catholic/Jewish/CofE/Atheist by birth.

I do wonder what colour my voice is, I'm hoping for green. I like green.

Is it random freds and night?

I have some potato bread in the cupboard, what does that make me

I go to synagogue, I eat bacon and I celebrate Eid - what does that make me?!

MRSTERRY ur first thought paul macartney mine stevie wonder

oh no update OP? what a jeffing surprise...

If OP is trying to prove some kind of point, perhaps that he/she is "inclusive", then they have failed miserably, and only served to show that he/she is interested in labelling and stereotypes.

I'm American. Can't you tell by my writing accent?

As other posters note, the UK is predominantly white. If 14â?? or better of posters are taking part in MN, then that's good isn't it?

14 per cent.

Btw my dd best 3 friends are white, Malay, and African Muslim. I did not encourage or discourage these relationships. My daughter simply finds common ground with them. Who gives a fig?

Funny how the OP has disappeared.

My DH's g grandfather was a Red Indian chief, one of the last of his tribe to leave their lands. He married an Irish woman, the other side of DH's family are Welsh and British.

My mothers family are Londoners through and through, but my DFs side is English, Swedish and French.

So ... our DD, due just after xmas, will be a wonderful mix

(just thought i'd share)

Ah man it would be so cool to be a red Indian chief

You imagine if he came on here. Within 5 minutes there would be troll hinting.
Mumsnetters cant cope with anyone too out of the ordinary.

Have you noticed the OP hasn't come back? Way to stir it up and bugger off...

If the OP ever does return here's a tip, turn most of your statements into questions and you will find most of those who have contributed so far would have responded in a very different way.

fluffyraggles did he look anything like the actors they hired to portray First Nations characters in cowboys and westerns? Because my mother's entire claim about the significance of my square face is based upon those!

And frankly, no there aren't many personal experience threads that debate about children growing up with racism, increasingly absent fathers, drugs and violence that may be problems in the black community. Again I dont know why. There is nothing that is stopping posters from sharing anything that may be unique to their ethnicity

So absent fathers, violence and drugs are unique to my ethnicity.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I'll chose the latter

Well said lovecat

This was never going to end well.....but I think I know where OP is coming from but would rather have it all mixed up than have a minority board, or "British Asian" section....the topics covered are more general than just for one race....kids from all cultures play up, men from all ethnicities can let us down....all Mums regarding of colouring can get knackered and need an anonymous moan- I'm judged elsewhere for the colour of my skin....but on MN...I am just me!

(Thumbs up) pandeen

MN - United Colours of Per Una

''And frankly, no there aren't many personal experience threads that debate about children growing up with racism, increasingly absent fathers, drugs and violence that may be problems in the black community.''

racism, such as the quotation above, is very much tolerated on mumsnet.

this post and the others by the poster should have been deleted but here they still are. the poster writes about 'African Americans' and has statistics that show that they are failures cf white people on a british website. why is that? are we all the same? why don't we analyse the crimes of the African/Asian and white communities in this country?

are there no absent fathers in the other communities, no drug takers, no violence?

which black community are you speaking about?