The Dinosaurs, The Dodo, The African-Caribbean community???
WARNING: THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN IN TYPICAL A TYPICAL WEST INDIAN RUM SHOP MANNER! NO BULLSHIT, NO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, IT IS NOT WRITTEN TO OFFEND, NOR DOES IT INTEND MALICE, IT SIMPLY AN ARTICLE OF OPINION!!!!!!
Stop the press!! A study commissioned by Equality and Human Rights Commission has reported that my beloved African caribbean community is set to vanish. I read the headline with great alarm in the Sunday Times yesterday. The cause is apparently good news for the state of multicultralism. it means that white people are just more accepting of interracial relationships, the African caribbean community dies out by default of not having enough people to sustain itself in the face of such rapid absorption. thus we die out leaving only the notting hill carnival to atest to our presence.
This is not really a surprise though, it’s an unplesant thing but all in all we knew we would arrive at this predicament, with the way that things are in the dating market. Allow me to illustrate to you our rates of interracial out-dating the study show that 50% of all black African-Caribbean men have a partner of a different race, 20% of black African men have partners of a different race,10% of indian men and women have partners of a different race. 40% of chinese women have a partner of a different race, the pakistani community (of both sexes) has an percentage of 4%.
when looking at the figures you will notice that largely black women are invisible, we are not note worthy, i know of 3 black women who are married to white men but i doubt that they alone make up 1% of the African-Caribbean community.
What it does make me wonder is why is my community up front and centre on this trend? we are the smallest minority (surely) in the country (england).
Well we could argue that our heritage is one that is one that leans heavily to anglicisation, we HAD to assimilate to get by and get jobs, our cultral values while not exactley the same are very similiar, our countries were part of Britain well up into the 1980’s and we largely are Christian.
we could also Argue that there may be a tenuous colonial thing going on here? Franz Fanon legendary author (and arsehole) of martinque (french speaking caribbean) said “there is only on destiny of the black man, and that is white”. calypso’s (popular topical music of the caribbean) of the early to mid 20th century often rhapsodised that the ideal woman was rich, white and stupid.(i don’t know if that is more racist or sexist but it sucks all around). The white woman has a special position in the Caribbean, she is rare, coveted and protected, so when you have chance of having your very own white woman aren’t you going to celebrate and grab that opportunity as soon as you can.
Or the third arguement is the sappiest pile of crap i have ever been forced to swallow, “Black women are just too difficult to please”, well excuse us for exepecting not to be crapped on. Like those arses have never bumped into a white woman who is less than courteous.
The truth as i see it, is that Black men from my community like white women, just accept it. the fact that they can get their hands on white women renders me and other women who share my background obselete.
In the dating world, we are the dregs, Asian women are feted as beautiful,seductive innocents. White women are the rulers of the western world they have the media are their backs, playboy, hustler,loaded,maxim,FHM,nuts etcetera. Latina’s have a reputation of passionate lovers and sultry loaded looks that set loins afire.
What about us black women what do we have, a reputation as being little more than beasts of burden oh and Robert di nero and Robin thicke…. that is some team there!
Arse on a bike…. i should immigrate back to the caribbean at least the weather is nice, if i am doomed at least i could do it in the warm.
ps to all those idiots who thing that having a very mixed society obliterates racism please take a look at brazil….
ps i may just hev been a little bit sacastic at times in this post, it’s just the way i’m feeling.
My two pence- Prince Henry and other BS!
I think the british media has done a fabulous job of sweeping the trouble under the proverbial carpet; however it’s total bullshit! If they are trying to tell me that the royal family is soooo insulated from the british public at large that they haven’t graped the fact that the word paki, is as insulting as the term nigger and is just not the done thing for a person with more than two brain cells, then the royal family has no place in modern britain!
What troubles me is that people are trying to excuse it by explaining that Prince harry is just a hoory henry in the sense of bertie wooster of pg.woodhouse. A nice but dim character. so that is totally harmless? No the only way it is excusable is if he had tourettes, he does not thus he is just a ignoramus.
some people have tried to excuse it by saying well the Asian in question hasn’t complained, well have they ever considered that maybe that dignified silence is an displeased one. that young man is living in ( not only working in) an enviroment that is very hierachical and a system to which he has to fight for the hooray henry’s grandmother! so maybe he isn’t complaining because of strategic reasons.
Now there is another theory i am willing to give a chance, it’s a little controversial and maybe will give hope to the BNP but her it goes, Maybe ,just maybe most Indigenous white people of the british isles are only paying lip servive to multiculturalism, and actually do not want ethnic minorities around and don’t give a shit!
But maybe thats a little far fetched! what worries me is the wonderful legacy that Princess Diana left behind is being wrecked by this beligerant twat! Princess diana was a global campaigner towards the end of her life, she was hardly mother thresa but she did do quite a bit more than the current duchess of cornwall! but that is not even a fair comparison.
The royal family are fairly insulated bunch, they serve in the army so that the public won’t complain, that they have easy lives. they pass their Art A levels with the aid of their teachers ( Harry) even if other students would get kicked out for that. They cant get away with going to “natives and colonials balls” (yes the still use the term Natives).
well they dont fool me, they are benefit scrongers, just like the ones on jerry springer (they are inbred too!!! Queenie and Prince Phillip are cousins as were several generations of royal couples). they just happen to be filthy rich, incredibly indifferent to repubilcan sentiments and lazy. they sit around on the wages from the tax payers and moan about duties such as travel around the world, shaking peoples hands and talking about the lack of privacy! well never mind that there are people working 10+ hours a day in construction and do you hear then bitching??? (nope) I have to do substaincial saving to have the priveilge of traveling the world, and leaving this rain soaked freezing arse cold country! but never mind that huh!!! Want to talk about lack of privacy , want to try my west indian family, who regulaly grill my male friends if they have ever fancied me, if not why not, then proceed to tell me “if you fixed up your appearance/ stopped talking in that voice / hanging out with those people /was a little less choosy/ more choosy and all of that crap. they have it nice all they have to do is act nicely and the status quo remains.
so in conclusion Prince harry is a twat! and can you say cover UP? this issue has me fired up!
Is the single life really that bad??
I am absolutely serious! what is so horrendous about it? I know that everyone has inside them a NEED to feel loved and desired, but as disasterous as 2009 looks, i woke up this morning really happy and grateful and guess what? My “sometime” on again -off again boyfriend hasn’t called to wish me happy new year…. and i do not give a crap!!! That guy i really like and have done since 2003 appears to be a confirmed homosexual….. good for him and mankind!! I am nearly mid twenties and no where near a marriage and well , it doesn’t make me scared or worried.
Why the societal pressure ? is being single really that much of a curse?? nah, it never was and really never will be. we contribute to the world. yes i want children and maybe a hubby to go with the package, but supposing that isn’t part of my future…. it will not make the world fall apart.
I have loving family, i am attractive and i know that i am desired ( big-headed i know) and very desirable, so i know that if i have life of coupledom ahead i should enjoy this single life now while it’s here, the parties, the flirting, the dancing, the dating,suspense and anticipation. In life we have so many troubles that put such simple superficial things in perspective, if you have every been hungry and gone to sleep that way, being single isn’t a hardship. If you’ve ever gone to atm to withdraw money for shopping or transport costs and seem red letters or minus signs staring back at you and had to think twice about your plans, being single is not a problem. If you grew up without things your kids consider nessecities being single is not a problem.
Now the economy is going tits up and floating down river, and so many of us will be realising that obsessions like relationship status, are important but not all consuming. Lets hope someone tells relatives attending family functions, i never want to hear ” So have you found a nice young man yet…. hurry up girl you are getting old!” again!!!!