AIBU to cut off friend who thinks I am racist?

[Screamanger]

Her reasoning being that my grandfather worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanzania. Apparently this means I directly profited from racism.

I don’t believe I have profited, and I am proud of my family.

Beesandcheese
I'd equate that with the catholics then and original sin. Of course the catholics do a great line in perpetuating sin and harm. Maybe that's why they are so obsessed by it.

Can't even figure out what you mean by that. I was brought up Catholic - don't believe in anything since age sixteen or so - but one of the very good things about it was the ability to get rid of guilt Confess and your sins are forgiven You certainly wouldn't be hanging on to guilt for what your or someone else's gr gr gr grandfather did.

This is all a bit like Munroe Bergdorf's (sp?) claim that everyone white is racist.

Looking at British society from the outside, I've always felt that the British working classes had the absolute worst of all possible worlds. You (British generally) have all grown up in the society so you may not be as aware how class-ridden it is compared to other countries (cue people lining up to demonstrate every other country in the world is more class-conscious).

Looking at my own country, Ireland, and my own family in the last century, once the British left it made a huge difference to working class people, who were able to become upwardly mobile. The infrastructure was left, police, courts, civil service, education system, so the transition was fairly smooth, and the upper classes moved back to Britain. Because it was a rural economy the politicians were almost always drawn from the farming communities, so not from the landed gentry, who had ceased to exist once we had independence. The British working classes have never had that shake-up to allow a levelling-out.

Not trying to offend, by the way

Sorry for third post in a row, but the odd thought just struck me that Britain is the only colony that the upper classes have left Everyone else got rid of them, but the British are stuck with them.

she doesn't sound like she was ever a friend :(

@edgeofheaven......you said "Paper on how colonialism had a negative impact on health services in Tanzania.". That is then not in the report you quote. Colonialism brought in health services in the first place. Men moved from one place to another for work. I don't think they were forced to do that on some sort of chain gang. Yes, that had a negative impact on their families health, but then the health service and infrastructure would have then caught up with that.