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She not only called the police, but she shrieked into the phone to make it seem as though she was at risk of being attacked. To my mind it was little better than an attempted assault/murder by proxy.
You just need to seize the opportunity, work hard, and your achievement is limited only by your ambition.
America defends democracy and freedom across the world, protecting the rights of individuals who might otherwise be subject to tyranny and oppression.
Everyone wants to live in America, it’s the best place in the world.
And that was even before Trump made it great again.
How on earth did it convey its sentiment?
Another important point to recognise is the impact of lifecourse and family, historical racism which prepares parents. The impact of racism is never isolated to the present moment, and to say that society is less racist today therefore why are they moaning doesn't cut the mustard. Even if contemporary measures to mitigate cultural racism such as kick it out, the equality act, and putting systems in place in the workplace to ensure a fair representation of ethnic diversity which gives rise to opportunity, people from black Asian and ethnic minorities are still effected by historical racism and the anger created from that violence. Mother's and father's have expectations which are subtle and social cues children pick up on and the anger caused from racism. The impact of racism as we're seeing so blatantly is an erosion of the self, and sense of being constrained, and that abuse which over time whether it be from a constant background hum of soft racism or overt racist slur can have devastating effects and the impact that has on parents changes the experience of a developing child. A big issue, which is being amplified across society today, which we all have to contend with is the attempts of populists to erode our trust in authority and normal ways we find credible knowledge. For black Asian and ethnic minority groups the background hum of soft racism goes a long way to contributing to trust issues with authority. So in the context of accessing mental health it results in acute admissions rather than preventative care as systemic racism is already taken for granted knowledge and an emotional expectation.
Racism is rife in the UK. It's not difficult to find racist slur online and on message boards, it's there. Racism in the terraces is common. Newspaper columnists in populist newspapers readily discriminate and treat black people differently to white people. Before CV19 you didn't have to go far to listen in on a conversation about brexit down a pub before you heard the term 'them asians' or them 'blacks' even though race supposedly didn't have anything to do with brexit. You don't have to speak to many people of black Asian or other ethnic minority to hear an account of overt and confrontational racism after the EU referendum. In fact on that very day a fellow student on a course I did walked into the seminar room in tears because a couple of young men told her to go home, she is a black British Muslim from Gorton.
One of my former students failed her driving test on three consecutive occasions, even when her driving instructor was a passenger in the last one because he couldn't believe she would fail. Guess what, she had the same examiner on all three occasions and there was no reasonable reason to fail her on any. Thankfully she got a different examiner on her fourth and passed to the delight of her children. She was from Africa.
Racism comes in many forms and from different sections in society and this can culminate into anger, despair and isolation. The impact of racism, like any traumatic experience can have consequences into adult life and families. A cycle of racism feeding the development of people creates systemic and cultural issues so subtle most people don't even recognize it. But then we see much higher incidences of black Asian and minority ethnic groups getting sectioned, institutionalised, put in prison, live in greater levels of deprivation and are proportionately more likely to be in low paid and precarious work and health inequalities. So all the signs of a subjugated group are there, just open your eyes.
BAME men skip any sort of intermediate steps and go straight into acute care? All of them? Every time?
There will always be poor people, life will always be unfair, it is just about making it less unfair for those that have taken the brunt of it for a long time I guess.
Don't forget though, there is black on blank racism too (as well as black on asian, asian on black, etc.). Racism isn't just white on black, or in fact, just a white thing, and I think that is the danger. It is like the comment above about football terraces. It is no good saying "don't make racist chants", because then people chant about something else (Munich, WW2, homosexuality, whatever). The aim should be to just make all the hate and nonsense unacceptable, not just funnel it into other directions. If your focus is too narrow, it is too easy to dismiss it.
I observe with the “benefit” of spending my teenage years in the 70s. Racism then was “rife”. It wasn’t necessarily vindictive, it just was. “Those people” were still sufficiently non-integrated to be seen as being different, and, equally, they were (in large part) still sufficiently unintegrated to be seen as part of a separate culture.
Over the intervening 40-odd years, the cultural barriers have become - largely - indistinct and are maintained - largely - by the BAME groups in the interests of protecting or maintaining their heritage.
I’d suggest that racism in the UK is hugely reduced since the 70s. Sexism is reduced, since the turn of the century. Whatever -ism is used to define sexual orientation and identity is similarly reduced since the 80s and probsbly last decade, respectively. I’d also suggest that the UK has made way more progress than some other countries (incl the US).
Perfect? Unlikely. But that works both ways.
Still, on the upside, #blacklivesmatter (disappointingly racist) has displaced #metoo (disappointingly sexist) and we’d get a new virtue signalling theme at the Oscars if they’re not cancelled.