“Dinna Bring an Arab Hame Tae Me”

[offshore_arab83]

Scottish footballs no different from anywhere else G, we've had oot fair share, even the famous tartan army was shamed when bananas were thrown at Neymar

[Shedboy1971]

the mark walters thing was shocking from hearts. didnt see the rangers thing. walters was a ****ing saint the way he acted - how must he have felt?

[Jim_Jam]

Where my brother worked. The people they were asking for interview were chosen on their CV. However the candidates religion, skin colour and age was removed beforehand. So candidates who were chosen then had to do well or not at the interview. At least it gave everyone an unbiased chance of getting to the interview. That was 20 years ago btw.

[offshore_arab83]

To this day i still will not put on my CV that i attended the johnnys as i've seen far too much of that happening in my industry, true story.

[stokearab]

It's been good to see threads like this being allowed to run during lockdown and it's good for everyone to let off a bit of steam.

Just wanted to add a couple of things.
First off, the statues thing is a bit of a red herring in all this because the BLM marchers/ demonstrators are not that bothered about statues. What they want is equality in the (English) system. They don't want positive discrimination they just want to be treated equally. The positive discrimination in a kind of misplaced stupid white guilt trip.

The demonstrations in America and here have been attended by a lot of ordinary white people too who can see the inequality that black people have to put up with. But as always in these things a protest has been infiltrated by anarchists and we shouldn't let the stuff that the anarchists are doing detract from the message.

Same with the looting in the US, the vast majority of demonstrations were peaceful and both black and white marching together.

Reference Arabdownsouth, I agree with his comments about England. Growing up in Scotland I never saw any real problems, moved to England, whole different ball game.
It's a very racist country.

The Met police in London was and is well known for having a lot of racist officers. A hell of a lot of people have died in police custody but not one officer has been convicted since 1969.To the guys asking why there's BLM marches in England after George Floyd was killed the answer is that black guys have died at the hands of the police in England too.

Luckily Scottish people are mostly open and welcoming and Scottish institutions aren't as badly affected by racism as what you find in England. We have a different problem.

[Shedboy1971]

So banks went for anonymous cvs that were to take clear indication of any race etc out of it - total neutral. Many issues with that but after a year or so we got two lots of cvs from HR. the candidates and the ones chosen by a junior unqualified HR person that had to interviewed. There was no debate. I am not sure if its a coincidence but that list was a list of female applicants. I then had to explain why a female didnt get a job - every time to a panel. The time spent was rediculous. Discrimination or senior management trying to meet their quotas and therefore bonus? when i knew i was leaving (or making my plans) i stopped fighting it and just played ball. Jesus ive left some mess i bet

[Shedboy1971]

To this day i still will not put on my CV that i attended the johnnys as i've seen far too much of that happening in my industry, true story.

i often dont put my time in bell street on my cv as i reckon some PC do gooder would take exception to my multiple incarcerations. Worlds gone PC mad

[japanarab]

To this day i still will not put on my CV that i attended the johnnys as i've seen far too much of that happening in my industry, true story.

Went for a job in DC Thompson years ago (1991?) and the first question they asked was what school I went to (which was the johnnys). Needless to say didn’t get it.

[Jim_Jam]

In the 1960s my classmate's dad was foreman at a woodyard. He said his dad was proud to admit that he threw every catholic's application in the bin.