RE: Black lives matter protestors block roads in the uk
August 9, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2016 at 1:45 pm by Regina.)
(August 9, 2016 at 10:13 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:I second this, prevalent as fuck in Birmingham where there's a very large number of "brown" people. The P-word is used to smear anyone remotely "brown" ranging from darker-skinned members of my (Maltese) family down to the darkest-skinned Indians. I got told I "sound like a Paki" when I spoke Maltese once, because the language is derived from medieval Arabic.(August 6, 2016 at 3:02 pm)RobertE Wrote: Again, that is ridiculous!! You must be the only person who can actually cannot tell the difference.
What the fuck are you talking about I'm saying racists call anyone remotely brown a "Paki" here in the UK.
Sikhs also regularly get confused as Muslims when Muslims don't even wear turbans (for the most part)
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