Post by Dave on Mar 15, 2011 18:56:02 GMT
I have long held the viewpoint that we so often end up seeing colour where we never saw it before, due to everything nearly always ending up being labelled as something that was racist.
In this country right now over 40,000 cases of racism are reported in our schools every year. Unbelabiable but true, primary school pupils and toddlers in nurseries are being punished for making racist insults, even if they don’t understand the terms they use. Teachers are being treated like counter staff in police stations as they have to fill in forms detailing name-calling and jokes. Meanwhile diversity “missionaries” are said to be increasing the divide between white and black children by forcing them to see everything through the prism of race.
I’m not suggesting for one second that no race crimes never go on in our schools, but I do feel its far to easy just to stick the rasict label on when children of different backgrounds fight as it’s not always a race issue, but when it becomes recorded as such it “causes racism” because the children feel they have been treated unfairly.
This is what I mean when I say we can end up seeing colour where we never saw it before and todays news that the producer of the popular TV program Midsomer Murders has been suspended by ITV, once again highlights the problem as far as I’m concerned.
I do feel that all he is guilty of is not really saying what he really meant and has said what he did all wrong so it can be made to look a racist issue. I have been watching the program as often as I have been able to for the last 14 years since it first appeared on the TV.
You know what? I have never noticed the cast has only ever been all white and why should I, nor would I have no more noticed if a black man or lady had been in the cast and why should I? The reason I have not noticed was because I don’t see people’s colours, just the people. I had to laugh when it was suggested that Midsomer Murders is watched by so many people who are white, just because the program has an all white cast and no black people at all. I watch it because I just happen to love it full stop.
I would imagine it was the way the questions were worded that got the answers they did and I fully understand where the producer was coming from and really don’t feel he was in any way being racist.
So what did he say?
The show "wouldn't work" if there were any non-white people in the cast.
"We just don't have ethnic minorities involved. Because it wouldn't be the English village with them. It just wouldn't work,"
I firmly believe all he was saying was that most English villages only have white people living in them and the program reflects that.
Historian and thriller writer Guy Walters — himself a resident of a "typical, exclusively white" English village — said that while True-May's description of monocultural villages was not inaccurate, "the problem with his words is it looks like he is saying that is a desirable state of affairs."
Yes that is the problem and I’m sure not what he meant or felt himself, but it is a fact that so many villages only have white people living in them. On the J.Vine show today some black people who do live in villages said they were very much a part of the community and not treated in anyway different from anyone else living in the village.
So I don’t buy the argument that people living in villages made up of mostly white people, would hound out or do all they could to stop any black person from living in the village. We are after all these days a cosmopolitan society in this country, even if we do not live in areas where they are many other races living together side by side.
I know now that every time the program comes on my TV, I will be thinking straight away about the fact there are no black people in it and could even end up feeling guilty watching it as I fear I might end up as being seen only to enjoy it, as I’m white and the program only has white people in it.
Being made to see colour where I never saw it before.
In this country right now over 40,000 cases of racism are reported in our schools every year. Unbelabiable but true, primary school pupils and toddlers in nurseries are being punished for making racist insults, even if they don’t understand the terms they use. Teachers are being treated like counter staff in police stations as they have to fill in forms detailing name-calling and jokes. Meanwhile diversity “missionaries” are said to be increasing the divide between white and black children by forcing them to see everything through the prism of race.
I’m not suggesting for one second that no race crimes never go on in our schools, but I do feel its far to easy just to stick the rasict label on when children of different backgrounds fight as it’s not always a race issue, but when it becomes recorded as such it “causes racism” because the children feel they have been treated unfairly.
This is what I mean when I say we can end up seeing colour where we never saw it before and todays news that the producer of the popular TV program Midsomer Murders has been suspended by ITV, once again highlights the problem as far as I’m concerned.
I do feel that all he is guilty of is not really saying what he really meant and has said what he did all wrong so it can be made to look a racist issue. I have been watching the program as often as I have been able to for the last 14 years since it first appeared on the TV.
You know what? I have never noticed the cast has only ever been all white and why should I, nor would I have no more noticed if a black man or lady had been in the cast and why should I? The reason I have not noticed was because I don’t see people’s colours, just the people. I had to laugh when it was suggested that Midsomer Murders is watched by so many people who are white, just because the program has an all white cast and no black people at all. I watch it because I just happen to love it full stop.
I would imagine it was the way the questions were worded that got the answers they did and I fully understand where the producer was coming from and really don’t feel he was in any way being racist.
So what did he say?
The show "wouldn't work" if there were any non-white people in the cast.
"We just don't have ethnic minorities involved. Because it wouldn't be the English village with them. It just wouldn't work,"
I firmly believe all he was saying was that most English villages only have white people living in them and the program reflects that.
Historian and thriller writer Guy Walters — himself a resident of a "typical, exclusively white" English village — said that while True-May's description of monocultural villages was not inaccurate, "the problem with his words is it looks like he is saying that is a desirable state of affairs."
Yes that is the problem and I’m sure not what he meant or felt himself, but it is a fact that so many villages only have white people living in them. On the J.Vine show today some black people who do live in villages said they were very much a part of the community and not treated in anyway different from anyone else living in the village.
So I don’t buy the argument that people living in villages made up of mostly white people, would hound out or do all they could to stop any black person from living in the village. We are after all these days a cosmopolitan society in this country, even if we do not live in areas where they are many other races living together side by side.
I know now that every time the program comes on my TV, I will be thinking straight away about the fact there are no black people in it and could even end up feeling guilty watching it as I fear I might end up as being seen only to enjoy it, as I’m white and the program only has white people in it.
Being made to see colour where I never saw it before.
