Great post Mick

Great post Mick

Everyone is "racist" to some degree. It is simple human nature to be wary of difference. As people realise that similarities are greater than differences, their wariness begins to fade. Just look at the changes over the past 60 years or so. My gran and grandad's generation had been brought up in the pomp of empire and regarded non-whites (and non-English whites) as at best strange and exotic and at worst inferior beings. My dad came across and worked with lots of black, asian and chinese sailors during his war service in the Navy and this familiarity made him much less racist than my mum who had had a relatively black-free existence back in blighty. By the time the (relatively) large scale black and Asian immigration of the 1960s and 70s started my parent's attitude ranged from a kind of patronising regard for african-carribbean people who they saw as more like "us" and a generalised dislike for Asians (Wogs) who had their own culture and weren't really trusted. My own kids have grown up with black and asian friends and rarely "see" ethnicity. None of this means that my grandparents' generation were "evil scum and the lowest of the low" - it just means they were products of their time.
Fast forward to 2016 where the huge and unprecedented numbers of immigrants both from within and without the EU are creating enormous social changes in our towns and cities. I would be shocked and surprised if there hadn't been a backlash regarding this situation. The electorate have never been asked if they want the current level of immigration which is impacting the poorest most (as we are constantly told by apologists for immigration, the economy [by which they mean the rich] benefits from immigration). What I find really annoying is the patronising crap from the luvvie left who define a genuine concern about levels of immigration as "racism." Being opposed to unlimited immigration is not racist and is not the same as hating immigrants.

My daughter went to work in a remote place in Ghana for one month and she suffered racism there. It can go both ways!

My daughter went to work in a remote place in Ghana for one month and she suffered racism there. It can go both ways!

There is no excuse for being nasty to a person purely because they are of a different race, black or white.

Couldn't agree more....you should have a proper reason to be nasty to anyone, colour or race has nothing to do with it !