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Message 60 of 237 (447134)
01-08-2008 8:35 AM
Reply to: Message 56 by Hyroglyphx
01-08-2008 12:57 AM


Re: Race policies
Does the Prime Minister have specific plans for black folk in the UK? Does there need to be a specific plan for black folk when we are one and the same? Isn't singling out black people perpetuating devisiveness?
The wording shouldn't be 'black' folk. It should be about culturally displaced folk and folk with an enslaved heritage. There is no mention of skin colour in that concept. It could apply to any colour. But if it translates to 'black' folk, then that is not the fault of 'black' folk. That is the fault of the people who targetted black folk for enslavement and cultural displacement. It was not black folk who made that into a race issue.
Addressing the impact of slavery and cultural displacement is not singling out black people. That was done hundreds of years ago.

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