Afternoon.
Was on Wikipedia trying to find Slim22's definition of 'an average caucasion'. Didn't have much time but was expecting it next to the 'Dulux Race Colour Chart For Those In Generalisation Frame Of Mind'.
It was a really light hearted post, one in which MTH deliberately didn't say what her race/colouring is. Because the title mentioned colour, the PCers kick started their Tall Steeds and immediately leapt to the defence of all of the poor black people that were offended. Erm. None. It was about bad hair. MTH knew, or havily suspected this would happen, and even said on the OP that it was a bored Friday thing. There's more than a little intelligence and mischief at work there. But if you didn't get it then don't worry, it's a lot less important than a bad 'do'.
Slim22, you said the post was, sick, and there was nothing funny about it at all. You have rather splendidly changed your tune, and I'm sure all of the 'average Caucaisions' will be over the moon, along with the 'averagely obese', 'averagely brown', 'averagely disabled', and the 'averagely gay'.
I made a comment about America, and again, as is so usual here, everyone, inc you MTH, has taken residence down my throat. I'm talking about a nation that had widespread slavery mainly from black nations, abolished it totally by 1860, and has gone from black citizens becoming free from slavery, to being 1st or second in the race to the White House (iront anyone?). I'd hate to suggest that anyone in America had said "Right, um, how do we get some popularity? I know, lets do what them Brits did and put up either a Woman or a Black. That'll show how forward we are, forget who is best for the job". As MTH said, if you haven't spent more than two weeks there being entertained by a great big (black) mouse, then probably best to leave off tht horse for the moment.
The ignorant cry I got on here before was "What about Katrina, hey?". Well, yes, what about Katrina ? I was in Florida in the aftermath, and in St Louis by the Misssissippi last year, both areas which suffered greatly. I think most people think that Katrina hit a small area in a sports stadium somewhere and specifically just blew the hair about of the whites whilst whipping up all the military guns and shooting the blacks. Get a grip. Here is todays lesson. Yes there were many things wrong with the local, county, state, and government responses, but none of them were specifically aimed at anyone of any colour. That's just simply sensationalist nonsense, and largely made credible by Kanye West in ain impromptu speech. This, he admitted had only just occurred to him and he;d been shoppoing a lot before he'd thought about a contribution.
In the figures for the New Orleans area, you'll see that the proportion of Black citizens that died was 49%, which is against the overall ethnic split of the area, which is 60%. In all of the areas I was in, all of the citizens were working together to make anything they could give work. All hotels were offering accomodation for anyone that was displaced. I didn't WITNESS any signs of racial divide, rather a community working together to get over a disaster. If your frame of reference is John Craven's Newsround, then a bit of that nice BBC, then again, I suggest you get a grip. As I've said earlier, the media wants to sell papers and web space. The headlines about people being re-housed after a hurricane aren't enough. If you can throw in a fooball stadium that re-housed people where people had a hard time too, then a bit of racial divide, then bingo. The PCers are ready to boost your sales tenfold. The fact that a natural disaster went against the ethnic split in favour of the black community may make you think there is a god/divine entity/golden goose with a great Afro.
America is a nation of immigrants by default. There is a large collection of varied races, some speak louder than others, some just get on with it. In a day to day way there is no active demonstraion anywhere of racism. No segregation, no obvious class system, no seperate restaurants anymore. The only peoplpe I hear from are the Disny fans that read the Guardian on this issue. Mainly, they care about their community, which I applaud. They don't spend all of their lives lamenting something from 150 years ago, they get on with it. And the only colour that counts in America is the colour of your money.
In the UK, if you are Black, or a Woman, they want to legislate to get you more jobs because you just can't make it on your own. How does that make you feel if you fall into those categories ? How does it make you feel if you are Asian, and can't get any help because you are the wrong shade.
I'm for total equality, and unbiased reporting. Anyone see the news and how disappointed they were last year when there was another massive earthquake in Indonesia, but no Tsunami. You could see the reporters visibly disapponted that only a few hundred people had been killed.
I'm glad some of what I[ve said has helped some of you. Slim, you're not doing it for me i'm afraid. I'm on the cusp of being offended if any of you are assuming my colour, race, sex, size of do, ability to walk/talk/read unbiased papers/ Please don't, it doesn't make any difference.
As it happens my hair is like a bunch of hedgehogs pubes on a moist summers day and I have to keep it short otherwise I look like a 70's Carry On character.