Left out because I’m white

love, please. i get it, you're crying over being discriminated against for the first time but coloured people have had it much worse. i dont blame you though, its nearly impossible that white people will ever understand.

Are you saying because someone is black black people must represent them? Black struggles, like what? Plenty of black people represent me and my views as a white person.

So you obviously started this thread so you can whine and groan about how "white people are so left out" and you wanted others to pity and sympathize with you- talk about how detrimental it is that white people never have a say White people are so ignored
You want a place to rant go on FB with the other Karens.

I mean, unless you can prove otherwise, its undeniably true that on average, white people have an easier time in the UK than non-white people.

The point of my post, which seemed to fly right over your head, is that a large part of white privileged is majority-bias not racism. Majority bias is a really real and very hard thing to combat - people stick with what's similar to them and the largest group of 'similar' gains advantages over the smaller groups through favoring their own. What your finding is that now you have moved into an enviroment where your not the majority, the majority-bias is working aginst you, not for you, and that's causing you problems.

Which is pretty much exactly what minorities deal with in the majority of the UK.

Excuse me that’s not why I made it. I want to know why it’s okay for people to constantly ignore and and make jokes about me because I’m not black or Muslim

No that's not what I'm saying. It's more to do with demand, there's no demand from this black Muslim community to be represented by a white non Muslim, they want someone like them. What's wrong with that?

Black struggles:facing discrimination, ancestors being used as slaves and general black culture is different from white culture. Its hard for a white person to understand the issues they face.

I disagree with that bit about white people intimidated because they assume weaponry, we hear about crime for example in London and when we see examples the ones we see are often black crime therefore people are on edge around black people, that alone isn't racism as such but people don't want to take the risk. I grew up in a white ghetto and experienced all the stereotypes you see in the media about non white people, stopped on the street just because you happened to be walking around, stopped and intimidated by the police as they claim "you matched a description of a criminal" Police coming round to our door because as a poor person they assumed we were first suspects in a case (as in we had working neighbours and they NEVER went round to their homes) I remember parents complaining to Police about how the Police broke the law/rules and be told "complain and be arrested" we are white! I am just old enough to remember the days before the internet was around and the older people complained about people the next town over as people "complain" about migrants and non white people now i.e talk about how they steal jobs, they are inbred, criminals etc. So to me its not about racism its people just want something and someone to blame.

My parents have a migrant black friend who moved from Scotland to London for work, within days people tried getting her son into gangs this was her own words so she moved back to Scotland pretty much straight away.

When I had my arm broken the nurse that looked after me was German, he told me he originally moved to London but moved to Scotland because the most abuse he got was down there and from non white people, basically it wasn't just his race but as he was from another country they saw him as an outsider.

Where I live for example Asians are just and no more the main minority, then Eastern Europeans so I have said I'd rather see a local Asian or even a Eastern European white person to represent my area than say a black Londoner, it annoys me when on tv they show middle class black Londoners as "representation" They don't represent my social class, don't represent Asian, latina/o, or even my part of the UK.

Lol what are the jokes

i do actually agree with you there, the media always shows the black crime and makes it seem like london is the hub of young black people. but, i didn't say they all get intimidated but most white people definitely do. i can assume OP feels intimidated surrounded by BAME people

people are definitely uncomfortable with anything out of the norm. a lot of white people would feel intimidated to walk past a group of young, black people which is unacceptable as they would be making false assumptions. yes, if they seemed like they had weaponry with them, it is fair to feel intimidated. likewise, a group of young, white people would not be judged even if they did have weapons with them. its ridiculous!

Ripping off the i had a dream speech to nominate themselves, if a white person did that they’d get kicked out of the uni, saying allah wants them to be the rep, and some others.

Thank you

Please don’t call me that it’s patronising. I’ve been bullied all my life, and now being white is another thing I have against me. It’s like unless I’m black then I can’t ever be accepted in London.

Ever heard of the white slave trade? But I didn’t make this to fight race I made it for help with my course. And the representative is for the course not for their tucking skin colour. Who cares about skin colour?! I don’t and I don’t get why people use it for hate.

It's for the course? Why didn't you mention this in your op post it sounded like you wanted to be student rep of the black Muslim community

Excuse me that’s not why I made it. I want to know why it’s okay for people to constantly ignore and and make jokes about me because I’m not black or Muslim

oh im so sorry, your case is upsetting and im sorry that you're going through this but please remember that not being white makes me feel like i'll never be accepted in the whole of the UK. i'm sure other non-whites can agree

So now you are telling us how white people think and feel, false and racist assumptions.

Yeah why the hell would a white person rip off the "I had a dream speech"
Why wouldn't a black person use that? Whats wrong with that?

Will you stop patronising me it’s very rude