To think this comment is racist

[Jackfruitburger]

Speculating on a black family on a tv show, someone said 'I just want to know where they've got their money from, the dad doesn't look like he does a job that pays really well.' He was a black man, relaxing in his garden, with a baseball cap on.
This is modern racism, it's not name calling, it's not signs on boarding house windows. It's not even a conscious thing for many people, I honestly don't believe that the woman who said this really even thought about her ludicrous idea of 'what wealth looks like.'
God the world is depressing sometimes.

Jackfruitburger
No it was the 24 year olds dad, so a middle aged man!

Now you POV makes sense.

TBF if it was Teen Mom then it could be that it was a class issue. If some of the people from Jeremy Kyle lived in a mansion then I'd think the same.

You are not going to get nearly 500 years of prejudice out of the white community in a couple of generations.

In America especially, white racists have called the police on black individuals just for being black. Black students are approached on uni campus, black men are blocked from entering their apartments, black women have been accosted in nice neighbourhood areas, all of them because, being black equates to them being out of place in areas of wealth and learning and similar. It's REAL.

You are not going to get nearly 500 years of prejudice out of the white community in a couple of generations.

Exactly. Generations and generations of historic racial social conditioning is still felt today and will be felt for a long time to come.

We often wonder where the money is coming from on Locationx3, two very young people looking for million pound houses!
There's a real attitude that anything negative said about a non-white person is racist, it is an attempt to close down a conversation and occupy the moral high ground.

Of course it's real, but that doesn't mean it applies in every situation.

I get what you're saying, OP, but, surely you can dislike a black person without it being racist? There are plenty of white and black 'celebrities' that I think are vile. Nothing to do with skin colour, more to do with no talent.

Take the cheeky girls, they are (in my opinion) ridiculous. Is that because they are white? Nope. They may be lovely in real life.

There's also something I can put my finger on about megan markle. I find her really false. Is that because she's part black? Nope. She may be lovely in real life.

I dislike all this "you must like a black person, or you're racist".

That said, we all have our preconceived pigeonholes we want to stuff people in, based on a lot of factors.

Depressing. People can’t say a thing now without being accused of being prejudiced / racist. Or something else horrible. Best just to say nothing. Very sad.

People can’t say a thing now without being accused of being prejudiced / racist
No.
People can’t say anything racist without being accused of being racist.

How is that possibly racist? I'd think the same about a white man lounging around wearing a baseball cap

This.

Every time this man saw a black man driving in a really nice and expensive make car, (in London, so loads of times) he was adamant the black guy bought it with illegal dealings, or that he stole it, drug money - you name it.

Years ago, a black guy I knew told me that he was regularly stopped by police while driving his 7-series Beemer. They always asked him for proof of ID, and were almost always rude.

He thoroughly enjoyed seeing their attitude change when he got out his driving licence, showing that he lived in a nice part of Putney, and his business card, showing that he was a barrister with chambers in Fountain Court.

I can't believe people still think that way 30 years on.

A male (black) friend of mine was driving in his Bentley last week and a white man in a white Van was driving towards him on a narrow road. Friend has to pull in to let white van past and the guy said (they both had their windows open) "looks like drug dealing pays well then..."

Yes, these remarks are racism. Simple. Denying they aren't is perpetuating racism