I have been thinking a lot about racism and prejudice this
week. I still don’t know enough about it to be anywhere near an expert. Still,
I hope what I am about to write makes sense.
The problem as I see it, is there are a lot of people who
have convinced themselves they are not racists because they are fundamentally
decent. They wouldn’t scream racial obscenities like those morons in London
last week; so, in their mind, that means they ...
Old Boris Johnson seems to be making more U Turns than a
knackered SatNav right now. The latest, under pressure from a footballer, being
the extension into the summer that offers food vouchers for the poorest kids in
society.
Sport & Politics
Of course, the government should be happy that a professional
footballer is doing his bit for the Coronavirus. After all, it was footballers
who they told to do more at the beginning of the ...
The term ‘Whataboutism’ is something that came to my attention the other day. I had sort of heard of it, but I didn’t really know it was a tool used as a way of deflecting guilt.
Nazi Germany and the USSR
Apparently, it was well used in Nazi Germany and Cold war Russia.
Germany would defend putting Jews in camps, with other European countries doing
the same thing during the ‘Race to Africa’.
Communist Russia would deflect ...
Born in Bristol in 1636, Colston was an entrepreneur. As his fortune amassed, he gave handsome sums to churches, schools and other good causes and charities. However, Colston’s fortune was made from exploiting roughly 100,000 West Africans. Men, women, and children were taken and thrown on to slave ships heading across the Atlantic.
His statue, until yesterday, represented him as an honourable philanthropist who built Bristol. That is over ...
One of the hardest things to understand as a white person, is
what it is like to be a black person. I think that the events of the last week
should tell us to try harder to find a way of understanding.
There was a chap on the radio earlier today who caught my
attention. He described himself as six foot three and of West Indian descent. He
explained a situation where a woman ploughed into his car. The accident was her
fault but because of his ...
