O/T Well it looks like White Lives don't matter.

[Exiletyke]

The poor blame the rich,. The blacks blame the whites.
labour blame Tory's. The working class blame the upper class. Left blames the right. Barnsley lads blame the chairman.
Roly blames grist.

folk of the world love pointing the finger at anyone and anything. Sad sad sad

Get it right cayton
Barnsley lads blame the owners & so would you if they ran RUFC

[wrinkly]

How is that relevant in the UK though?

Our police aren't routinely armed, they're mostly left-wing and "manage crime" rather than stop it. They're more social workers than a police "force."

And if you look at the stats, white people are more likely to die in custody over here.

What stats?
More white people die in custody than black people - because there are much more of them!
Proportionally black people are twice as likely to die in custody as white people

[great_fire]

What stats?
More white people die in custody than black people - because there are much more of them!
Proportionally black people are twice as likely to die in custody as white people

Wrong.

"Black people in the decade up to 2018-19 made up nine per cent of arrests, but eight per cent of deaths in custody, whereas white people were 79 per cent of arrests and 85 per cent of deaths in custody."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...-lives-matter/

[wrinkly]

Wrong.

"Black people in the decade up to 2018-19 made up nine per cent of arrests, but eight per cent of deaths in custody, whereas white people were 79 per cent of arrests and 85 per cent of deaths in custody."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...-lives-matter/

Or
" Between 2008/09 and 2018/19, 85 percent of deaths in police custody in England and Wales were white people, who make up 86 percent of the UK population. In the same time period, black people accounted for eight percent of the UK deaths in police custody, while only making up three percent of the total population."

[Shark27]

An Irish Catholic said this to me (and, yes, he did have a huge axe to grind).

He told me the arrogence of the English working classes is quite staggering. These were the young people who, over the centuries, were forced into the Army through poverty. They losts their lives fighting battles in far off places to exert Colonial Rule. All they achieved was to keep the blacks in their place, keep the English working classes poor and made the privileged few very very wealthy...yet sing Rule Britania at England games as if they gained some benefit.

Interesting opinion.

Well i'm guessing he's basically saying anyone who sings Rule Britannia is arrogant due to the nature of the song as the rest of the text wouldn't allude to arrogance.

The Irish love to call us arrogant though. So do the Scots and Welsh and some of them sing it too.

[frogmiller]

I sometimes stand by the side of other immigrants and get treat differently until I open my mouth.

Imagine the way you don't look at a European migrant worker until you hear their accent

[Exiletyke]

Well i'm guessing he's basically saying anyone who sings Rule Britannia is arrogant due to the nature of the song as the rest of the text wouldn't allude to arrogance.

The Irish love to call us arrogant though. So do the Scots and Welsh and some of them sing it too.

If they call us arrogant they have plenty of reason to do so & as a Nation we've little to be proud of in this regard
England has oppressed & occupied Ireland,Scotland & Wales over our "illustrious" past
Imagine if we had been oppressed, occupied & ruled by any of these nations how we might feel
It's worth some thought

[rolymiller]

If they call us arrogant they have plenty of reason to do so & as a Nation we've little to be proud of in this regard
England has oppressed & occupied Ireland,Scotland & Wales over our "illustrious" past
Imagine if we had been oppressed, occupied & ruled by any of these nations how we might feel
It's worth some thought

It is indeed. We may be thinking we want a bit of payback time.

Some folks say you can't rewrite history, maybe not, but you can do summat to make amends for it...

[Shark27]

If they call us arrogant they have plenty of reason to do so & as a Nation we've little to be proud of in this regard
England has oppressed & occupied Ireland,Scotland & Wales over our "illustrious" past
Imagine if we had been oppressed, occupied & ruled by any of these nations how we might feel
It's worth some thought

So generalising English people because of this is ok then?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

It is indeed. We may be thinking we want a bit of payback time.

Some folks say you can't rewrite history, maybe not, but you can do summat to make amends for it...

Why?

Do other colonial nations continuously apologise?

Like Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands?

All have dodgy track records.