by lakes10 » Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:16 pm
Ok so I have been putting off posting in this thread, as I am sure I am going to word this the wrong way.
As most of you know my job is to do with anger and confidence and stuff like that.
I teach all over the place, from prison to schools.
What I am going to say is not going to go down well.
The sad fact is that over the last 3 years MOST people that I have on my courses have the same views as this woman.
Now we are talking around 3000 people.
What tends to happen some one on the course will say something like "it was once all white around here" to start with no one says any thing, them some one will add to the other persons point and before long the how class is turning into a race war.
I do fear that what this women has shown is what a lot of white British people think but will never say.
The only way I tend to shut them up on my courses is to point out our own (white British) history and how we took over others lands and killed or made them slaves in the past.
In my own area there are very few ethnic minority groups, by move 5 miles down the road and white British is the minority group. And there’s hell of a lot of anger building about that.
Thers a school not far from me (10 miles) where a white child was told by the school that he might be better finding another school to go to as he was the only white kid in that school.
That has made the whole of that area full of anger.
I fear that something is building and what we saw last summer was only the start of this.
I spent a lot of time in hackney dealing with gangs involved the postcode wars at the start of the year, black on black gangs. Mixed gangs v mixed gangs.
What I am starting to see is black and white gangs meeting up to take on Chinese gangs and Muslim gangs.
This is moving fast over London and Bradford.
How do we change the white British minds that they are not having their land and history taken away from them...I have tried and I just don’t seem to be able to change their minds.
So in short my view is that this women is saying just that a lot of others feel but never say.
Is it wrong in what she said...god yes, is there a better way of saying what she had to say...no. Its wrong what ever way you say it, can you change this persons view? I don’t think so.
Are we in danger of more of this? Yes very much so.
Look I hope I have put this in the right way (bet I have not), I don’t wish to upset anyone, I work in anger management and there’s a lot of it about right now.
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lakes10 on Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.