tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post110337958391002977..comments2023-10-18T16:25:13.593+01:00Comments on Famous for 15 megapixels: Stef plays the Race CardStefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1103479693388860242004-12-19T18:08:00.000+00:002004-12-19T18:08:00.000+00:00Yes, I have heard of such things but never been th...Yes, I have heard of such things but never been through one myself.<br /><br />There is this curious myth that only people of European extraction are racists. In the UK it is manifest is several ways. My favourite expression is in our crime statistics. Only White on Black crimes are counted as racial assaults. Black and White and Black on Black (say, involving West Africans and Caribbeans) are chalked up as being non racial.<br /><br />The UK admits something like 50-100,000 people per annum as asylum seekers. Yet Japan, which is richer and more populous admits something like 10 asylum seekers per year. Yes, 10.<br /><br />India has a population of c.1bn people and is the largest democracy in the World and operates a rigorous caste system that relegates people of the lowest caste to live more or less like animals.<br /><br />In Rwanda, 800,000 Tutisis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death by their countrymen. God knows how many people are being murdered and starved to death in the Sudan right now.<br /><br />etc etc<br /><br />Yet, for some frickin reason the word racism is never used in reporting these ghastly atrocities. That's because, apparently, only white people are racists.<br /><br />I'm not saying they're not but so is everyone else and it's an outright lie to pretend that this is not so.Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.com