Racism on the Tram!!! Appalling!

racist. don't tell people to leave just because they moved to the UK after the British destroyed their own country. you don't own this land - and you can't dictate what I say and do - this isn't the colonial age anymore despite your wishes to dictate to the brown and blacks how we should behave.

Yeah I can't possibly understand your perception of England thanks to my "internalized habitus". I'll tell you what dickhead. My great-grandparents and grandparents fought for "mother england" in two world wars against other Europeans. They arrived in this country and suffered horrid levels of abuse over the fact that they had black skin. They arrived to the UK into a country on it's knees thanks to the bombs of the German Air Force and an acute labour shortage caused by the second world war. They worked like dogs rebuilding this shattered country in the rubble of Bristol and London - my granddad suffered loads of crap when he arrived. He spent his childhood being told how Britain is the best country in the world and his adult life was spent fighting for the United Kingdom in a military conflict and working crappy jobs on a rubbish wage rebuilding the East End of London and parts of Bristol. I speak English and feel at home in the United Kingdom. I have no other country to go to. I apologise if my black face upsets you but this is my country as much as yours, having a certain phenotype doesn't give you the right to dictate how I should and do feel about my nationality and identity. It doesn't really get to me anymore that, despite my families physical and emotional investment in the UK, sections of society won't really accept me as a fellow Brit, haters gonna hate and all that.

This is also the reason why a foreign person who moves here as an adult might assimilate, yet they will always lack that internalized habitus that makes a British person British, they will always to an extent have the habitus of their own parent culture and will never truly be British.

lol typical racist. africans only started starving when europeans arrived on the scene.

we aren't reliant on you. quite the opposite. if you stopped your colonialist & racist ways the world would be better.

Did you even read my post mad black kid before writing that block of rage?



Cool story, tell it again.

What about the Muslims colonies of Europe?

THIS IS BEFORE WHITE COLONIES IN AFRICA ETC

typical UK.

Forget the colonies, what about the Muslim slave trade which began before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, affected more people, was more brutal and still continues even today?

I don't think it can be called the Muslim slave trade when it was initiated and upheld by Arabs.

True, but you conveniently missed out the fact that we made a lot of our money through exploitation of certain countries as well.

Some of our money was made fairly and squarely. But a fair amount of it was not.

Oh how easy it is to phrase these things in a certain way which places bias. You need to tell the whole story.

They're more than happy to claim the Islamic Golden Age as being such, despite the fact that some Muslim peoples seemed to be contributing far more than others (that and the fact that Jews also contributed and some of the acheivements were actually Indian anyway).

Yeah that's true, but I suppose if Islam wasn't so comfortable with the idea of slavery, it may have died out by now.

Islam doesn't prohibit slavery, I'm not sure if it encourages it though.

If it even so much as allows it, it is a danger; humans have selfish desires, but they also have a sense of morality. If you believe a book which says that human understanding of right and wrong is worthless, as only God decides such things, you have a free pass to ignore you own sense of compassion, as the big guy says that acting in an inhumane way is ok, and you are nobody to disagree.

Did you even read my post mad black kid before writing that block of rage?



Cool story, tell it again.

My grandparents moved here as adults. You have no right to tell them they are/aren't British.

They might have served the country well and assimilated which is great, but they aren't British. I don't understand why this is such a shocking concept?

One of my grandparents was Irish, like yours he served in the war in the Yorkshire Rifles, after the war he built the motorways working as a navvy, he was treated with contempt for being Irish and eventually he died here.

But after this big sob story is my grandfather British? No, he was Irish and died Irish.

(Although technically Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom when my grandfather was born but I am just trying to illustrate a point).

Who gave you the position of deciding who is or is not "British"?