Are Blacks Trigger Happy?

I was present at a university discussion today about racism and ethnic identity in Britain. There were a lot of black contributors there, and I was struck by how shallow their view of racism is.

As part of a presentation, one black girl showed a slide showing a Tory advertising slogan: "It's not racist to put controls on immigration". She went on to say, "Well, actually it is". There was no further explanation of this broad and baseless statement.

Elsewhere, another black contributor accused the media of fostering racist attitudes. His example was that of the recent London gang shootings, where he claimed that the media was wrong to associate such crimes with blacks (not that they ever did; in fact they studiously avoided making such deliberate connections in the name of sensitivity) because one of the victims was not black but half-Chinese. So? That does not address all the other black people involved, and it makes no attempt to get to the roots of where this gun culture starts.

The most telling comment came from a white girl who said that she grew up in an area where whites were the minority group, and yet she never felt as if she was being held back or being denied chances in life because of her minority status. She just got on with it. To me, this affirms the idea that too many black people lazily play the race card instead of actually working hard and being good moral citizens. That's not to say there aren't those who don't follow this pattern, but I think some people need to examine more deeply the roots and development of black culture and I think they would see that such culture DOES have it's problems. Denying this fact doesn't help anyone and only leads to expansion and more of the same.

Overall, it was an interesting afternoon, and it was a shame there weren't more people there to give an alternative view to some the rather incomplete viewpoints I heard uttered.