This maybe cutting near the mark. Was based on one of the bands sisters getting duffed up by a black (is that this weeks term??) Obviously this was 80s. How would you feel today if this was your sister? Should go down like a lead balloon.
I'm happy to be truthful. Wouldn't care and find it odd that anyone would. There's plenty of things that would bother me (a waster, a drug-addict, a cheat, a braggard, etc) but all based on some genuine thing about the person which warranted dislike. I can always find something if I look hard enough
When I was a teenager growing up in Newcastle probably but I spent all my 20's in Leicester and half the weddings I've been to were mixed race and it doesn't have anything unusual about it. The shock factor would just be if they were pregnant unexpectedly and had no plans - that would warrant some sort of questioning.
Not for me, now that you mention it my sister is married to a South African bloke who is halfway between white and black and this is the first time I've ever thought about it. I had friends at my primary school who were Indian and black and I never noticed anything different about them, apart from that the black lad was **** hot at football.
Well gypsy-townie relationships are received fine as a rule. But the moment there would be a fair bit of concern if ya sister got with a gypsy round my way because they're absolutely knocking **** out of each other at the moment. Full on Gypsy family wars. Seriously, They've been driving lorries into each others houses, robbing each others graves claiming the remains as trophies, petrol bombing each other the lot. Way more then a usual fistycuff gypsy conflicts. I think most people round here would be concerned if their sis was getting serious with a Traveler at this moment in time. Been quiet the last year or two though with a lot of trouble happening else where in the country. That's the only minority group that would raise concern I reckon.
That ship has sailed. Wasn't many black lads in Jarrow growing up, apart from the shopkeepers. When I was 9 a kid from London came to my school, he was black and we hit it off straightaway. I realised from a very early age that we are all the same so I've never had any hate in me for skin colour. It will have been fear of the unknown for many people around here, at first. No excuses now, though. We all live amongst each other.
See. That right there is the difference.. I never have. Nor ever will hide my predjudices when young. I also will never demy deep down that they are still there. To a much lesser extent. If that makes me bad. So be it. Ive been round the world. Got a half asian kid. Tjhink ive adjusted pretty well. Maybe not 100%. But pretty good
