Jamie Foxx's comments about Michael Jackson...

[max_tranmere]

Lots more interesting comments there.

To continue with what I've been saying about how people see colour as more than just skin-deep, and how they would cry 'racist, racist' if others were to do the same - step forward Keith Vaz MP! This man is a Brit, demands to be seen as a Brit, is a member of the British government and lobbies and sets policy on the British government's behalf, but all of a sudden remembers he is Asian when it suits him!

Do you remember how he befriended Shilpa Shetty after the racism controversy in Celebrity Big Brother a few years ago? Vaz met her, took her on a tour of Parliament and so on. Would he have done that if she had been a Japanese or Argentinian actress who had suffered alleged racism in the BB house? Was the fact he and Shetty are the same ethnicity, have their routes in the same place, and they are the same colour, a total co-incidence? I think not. He sees her as someone he wanted to befriend solely because of those similarities, which imply that if she wasn't those things he would have less interest in wanting to befriend her. Pure racism in other words.

This week Vaz and Gordon Brown unveiled a statue to Mahatma Gandi in Leiciester. Vaz and Brown were decked out in all the clobber, that folk in India wear, when unveiling that statue (notice how this only happens with ethnic minority things - would Brown arrive at a St George's Day festival dressed as a morris dancer? I don't think so. Would Brown even care
about St George's Day or even be aware that a festival might be taking place? Again, I doubt it). Would Vaz show up somewhere to commenorate all the Australians that died at Gallipolli in World War One (and be dressed as an Aussie bush ranger whilst doing so)? Or pay homage to all the West Indians who died in World War II, at a statue in London (and Vaz dress as a West Indian Reggae singer for the day)? I somehow don't think he would attend, or even care.

This man is a pure racist, as all the things I've outlined confirm, yet he would hate anyone else for feeling a close allegiance to people of their own kith and kin, or seeing common ground with another person based on them both being of the same colour, religion, or having a heritage from the same part of the world. People like Vaz, and Jamie Foxx too, and also that Kwame Kwei-Armah guy, try to point out to people on an almost daily basis that colour, creed, relgion, and so on, are identifying factors that make people want to know other people more if their credentials are the same. Even though the race relations lobby have been trying to say otherwise for 50 years. The more people like this behave like that, the more the members of what is often called the 'majority community' might start seeing those things as distinctions too.

[Lossieboy]

You have to remember we gave Andy Murray to the world...He came from us lol

[max_tranmere]

Reggie, I think you've gone mad. I'm pointing out the racism in others, and the hypocrisy and contradictory behaviour in these people. How can that make the observer a racist? I see everyone as the same and what I find so ridiculous is how people who demand others regard people as the same, irrespective of colour or whatever, dont themselves! It's certainly worth pointing out.

[max_tranmere]

JR, who does? Me or Reginald?