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But right now we have living people doing this
In sudan, right now:
Stormzy to the rescue?
Disgusting display of Racism
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But right now we have living people doing this
In sudan, right now:
Stormzy to the rescue?
Yeah you're complaining dead people were mean to other dead people.
Literally human history is all humans are scum.
Nigeria still had black on black slavery into the 1900s (it had it before white people turned up too)
I like this because you think you are being amusing in taking the mickey out of a point or subject that i never even made or commented on.
I've said nothing about whether black people should still hold a grudge against us or hate us for what the country did in the past (i don't think they should as that serves no purpose).
The relevance is you have taken one peice of history and said its on going because of the skin colour of who did what.
Ignoring the other 99% of events that are well ignored and not an issue.
You still use French words for anything "professional" and English words for anything common.
The force used onyour ancestors is still visible today there.
But do you care? Course not you'd be insane for saying anything modern was to blame on the French oppression of the British
NO I'M NOT
Come on surely you guys have better reading comprehension than this? I was responding to the OP which is about someone trying to open up more opportunities to black people (ie social mobility issues), which i pointed out had been stunted due to the way our ancestors had treated them in society in the past.
It is better to focus on the actual issue, rather than just think its all one big grudge match (which you seemingly think it is all about).
I like this because you think you are being amusing in taking the mickey out of a point or subject that i never even made or commented on.
I've said nothing about whether black people should still hold a grudge against us or hate us for what the country did in the past (i don't think they should as that serves no purpose).
Jono, you can't just flick a switch and make everything OK, it will take time, costal communities were ravaged by the Vikings.
I'm fine with what the Vikings did. They were clearly having a LARP.
They put horns on their head and had silly big axes and everything!
If black peoples opportunities to attend university are currently being stunted, as you suggest, why do more black Africans and Caribbeans in the UK attend university than whites based on per capita figures?..
That's a myth that they put horns on their head, you're perhaps too into LARPing...
Because he's just making things up! Lets be realistic he's trying to justify something that can't reasonably be justified and has thrown in some handwaving nonsense about stuff taking time etc..
Is that the case for Cambridge/Oxbridge (ie the topic of this thread)?
I will pose it to you also then -
Is that the case for Cambridge( or Oxbridge etc) -ie the topic of this thread?
Do they discriminate against black people? Do black people not have access to the same UCAS forms?
Irrelevant to the point.
So now we're going to be disengenious now are we?
I think you know that whether or not someone is white is not the most relevant thing here.
If you looked at the people who attend Cambridge/Oxford Universities in an honest fashion you would know that it's dissproprtinally a certain class of people that attend these universities.
Discrimination in favour of non whites doubly penalises already less privellged whites.
They don't have the connections of the higher classes and get punished again by discrimination that ensures that non whites, including those who have already had a better start in life, are preffered for their skin colour alone.
Why?
I'm sorry, how can you be fine with what the Vikings did? The sacking of Lindisfarne was an atrocious display of pagan barbarism.
Also the horned helmet thing is a myth.
Vikings did have axes, iirc. Certainly sticks with axe-head shaped metal on the end which would be used for swinging at people. I'm not sure if that's the same as an axe.
The sad thing about this part of the post, is that if you really read it through and thought about my initial point in this thread, you would have some sort of epiphany.
You are almost there!
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You can't ask simplistic questions to complicated problems.
Why has the rate of black attendance surpassed white attendance since 2006?
Why was black attendance so low in the first place?
Why is white attendance stagnating?
Why do the rates change so much when you only look at Russell Group unis?
I don't know the answer to those questions but it would give you a better idea of what the actual problems are. If people and institutions have been working to increase black attendance then it's not unexpected to see them have the highest growth in numbers/rate. To then take this as proof that there's nothing stunting their attainment is ignoring where they've come from.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures...tion/entry-rates-into-higher-education/latest