In my youth when I was still learning about life, and being a daft wee teenager who thought he was a lot smarter than he actually was, I had a few run ins with the boys in blue, and giving one of these clowns my name, had the amazing effect of turning molehills into mountains, what are they like eh?Like yourself and plenty of others B I've experienced both anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholic bigotry, both subtly and overtly, from Police, employers, work colleagues and others.
Our names and where we went to school are immediate giveaways to any anti-Irish racist or anti-Catholic bigot who would want to discriminate against us either subtly or otherwise. I have no doubt it has been the reason why I have been singled out from my mates by certain polis and why I didn't get certain jobs I was more than qualified for and I've no doubt there have been others who have suffered far worse injustices than that but as fundamentally wrong, unjust and disgusting as that has been I would never compare my experiences of racism and sectarianism in Scotland to that of black men, women and children in the USA because the scale, the levels of injustice, the fear, the threat to life and the impunity in which the perpetrators of that racism operate with are just not even close to being comparable so to demand the same levels of attention just misses the whole point of what is actually taking place in America right now.
HH B
Michael know what's missing from that picture is a white sheet and a burning crucifix then that would be the truth.
This is what I meantMichael know what's missing from that picture is a white sheet and a burning crucifix then that would be the truth.
But that thing know's nothing of truth his life is all lies .
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Sevco fans show their TRUE feelings on a since deleted tweet, absolutely shocking, shameful.......
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In my youth when I was still learning about life, and being a daft wee teenager who thought he was a lot smarter than he actually was, I had a few run ins with the boys in blue, and giving one of these clowns my name, had the amazing effect of turning molehills into mountains, what are they like eh?
I wasn't making a comparison regarding the number of instances, but i'll tell you what, if you were to work out statistically the percentage between a nation of 4.5 million and one of 350 million in a time span of say 1860 to now, we'd be right up there. Fuckssake we have it stuck down our throats annually with full government and police compliance! They don't get that in America.I'm sorry mate and I say this as someone of Irish descent raised as a Catholic in Glasgow but are you seriously comparing what's going on in the States to what's happening here in Scotland?
None of us on here are in any doubt that anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment is an ingrained and shamefully ignored problem in Scotland or that it insidiously pervades through so many of our institutions but conflating our situation with what we're seeing in the US right now does a huge disservice to the struggle of black men, women and children in the USA.
Those poor people are being routinely murdered, beaten, wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned on a massive scale and on a daily basis by an institutionally racist law enforcement that are completely out of control and who seem to act with impunity, so while I agree with you that Scotland undoubtedly has it's problems with racism and sectarianism, especially anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholic bigotry, it is not even close to being on the same level.
If you had compared the struggle of Black Americans to the struggle of Irish Catholics on the Island of Ireland then you would've had a point but comparing it to Scotland.....nah sorry, they are not the same!
I wasn't making a comparison regarding the number of instances, but i'll tell you what, if you were to work out statistically the percentage between a nation of 4.5 million and one of 350 million in a time span of say 1860 to now, we'd be right up there. Fuckssake we have it stuck down our throats annually with full government and police compliance! They don't get that in America.
Fair points, well put mate.
'Alleged extremist'Ah'm sayin nuthin,ah'm an extremist!