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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
I am not sure about the 'maybe not as much as the UK' suggestion, especially not where I am from. If anything I would think it would be worse in Ireland as there are no black people there. Here there are a lot.
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Fair point. I don't live in the UK. But what I see on the telly does seem to point towards black people there getting more harassed than other races, but you're certainly in a better position to confirm or challenge that than I am. I think the point still stands though; along with the Jews, blacks appear to be one of longest-oppressed races, would that be fair?
Either way, when we think of prejudice and racism these days, other than muslims or Islamic countries, we tend to think I believe about black people. There aren't too many threads complaining about the treatment Asians, Kurds or any other race or ethnic group is receiving.
Maybe I'm just looking at it through a lens filtered by decades of watching the news and too many movies (
Mississippi Burning!) but that's how it appears to me.