Quote I think you’ve pretty much answered your own question there. Unless you’re saying that discrimination only becomes an issue when it is absolute and all opportunities are denied.
I like ‘equality’ in inverted commas, and ‘justice’ later on. Obviously, it’d be childish of me to start doing it with another abstract concept, such as ‘sovereignty’, and, equally obviously, that won’t be stopping me. Gammons want ‘sovereignty’, yes? So tell me, what challenges faced a gammon that aren’t there following our departure from the EU? I don’t deny that membership of the EU meant some pooling of ‘sovereignty’ but did it remove all our political, economic and legal independence?'"
Another false equivalence. Leaving the EU wasn't a matter of overcoming 'challenges' but preferences. I simply preferred not to be ruled by an undemocratic body in another country, and disagree with the concept and ideology of the EU and its leaders.
A young black kid has access to free education until the age of 18. They have access to apprenticeships and training. They have all the tools at their disposal for a good start in life into a career. Racism does not deny them any of that. The challenges they might face come down more to home life, peer pressure, aptitude and the community he/she steps into each morning, which includes a higher rate of single parent households than any other ethnicity. That's before we even talk about culture. None of this is due to racism.
Quote Are you suggesting that all black people carry knives or are involved in drugs and casual criminality, or that only those that are, are harassed by the police? In which case it wouldn’t really be harassment, in fairness. If you’re saying it is a skin colour thing and innocent black people have to expect harassment or discrimination because of what black criminals do, that seems strange to me. I think it’d be unfair, and frankly ridiculous, for me to be judged based on the worst actions of other white people or be racially profiled, for example, as the sort of person who associates political protest with lager.'"
That's a very 'Cathy Newman' response, I expect better from you.
Rightly or wrongly, it's a fact blacks are more likely to be carrying knives or committing crime in London. That's indisputable. The arrest rate of blacks (35 per 1,000) is 3.5 x whites (10 per 1,000) in England/Wales. It's pretty simple: if you're a copper working in a black community in which there are daily stabbings and other criminality committed by mainly young black males, you are going to keep an eye on and check young black males. Yes, innocents will get caught up in this, but what is the alternative?
Perhaps we could copy the US? 'Autonomous Zones' popping up in cities where police are not permitted to enter. It's going REALLY, REALLY well.
Regardless, the point is it doesn't really matter how much virtue signalling is going on - you can only achieve change by raising black communities out of poverty, changing racist minds and by removing the culture of casual criminality, drugs and the lure of a gangster lifestyle over a pretty dull 'normal' working life. Telling every white in the UK just how racist we all are over and over and over and tearing down our history and attacking our police, threatening to "kill all whites" and posting dozens of videos of attacks on lone whites is only creating massive division.
