(August 18, 2016 at 10:57 pm)RobertE Wrote:(August 18, 2016 at 6:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ...Perhaps we don't, but perhaps a very big reason for the structural racism in America is simply down to being civil to one another. In the UK, we are considered civilised to others, we are more welcoming to others, and we have black communities who are and have been integrated into a white community for over 3-4 generations. So, be more civilised towards those who are of different races and maybe, just maybe the USA will finally drag itself into the 21st century.
What you say matters. But you, and RobertE, don't know jack-shit about the structural racism in America, to judge from your posts, but still parrot the same lines as racists here do.
As a white American member of a multiracial family, I'll never know what racism feels like, but I goddamned well know what it sounds like.
If you're not racist, perhaps you could drop the talking-points approach to a problem you know only from reportage and, you know, listen to those who live with it daily ... before you chase them off, as you have one already.
Your post is very feel-good and casts a warm, soft glow over the civilized British, well done. I'm glad you feel so good about your heritage and native country and that you can confidently look down your nose at the US - I wonder - have you even been to the US for anything more than a holiday.
I've lived in the UK and I've been to impoverished black communities there - one was Brixton in London although perhaps it's been gentrified in the years since I left. I wonder why you feel the need to make yourself look good by boasting about how incredibly civilized and welcoming "we are" (to blacks who have been in the UK "for over 3-4 generations").
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