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Steve Voltage
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Is the Google theme for today Mischief

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Report Dr Crippen • October 25, 2016 3:04 PM BST
Will they never stop bellyaching about discrimination and getting a raw deal?
Report Ramruma • October 25, 2016 3:17 PM BST
Who? Google?
Report lfc1971 • October 25, 2016 3:21 PM BST
Grin that's not very nice from Dr Crippen, but might it be a good thing if someone was to say this?, I don't know
Report donny osmond • October 25, 2016 3:26 PM BST
shirley its to show folk the positive contibutions and give
everyone more of a steak in post brexit britain
Report Ramruma • October 25, 2016 3:44 PM BST
In America they have Black History Month, and I think what happened is someone saw this and decided we should also have one.
Report Ron-Russian • October 25, 2016 7:00 PM BST
not even a mention of the broadwater farm riot Confused
Report Coachbuster • October 25, 2016 7:37 PM BST
why have any colour history ?  - this is racist surely  !

just call it History .  I don't care  about the colour of the guy who invented the telephone etc.   

I read somewhere that if it wasn't for the cleverest 1% /or inventors   we would  still be living in caves . Not sure how true that might be .
Report Coachbuster • October 25, 2016 7:39 PM BST
and if you are going to have a black surely have a brown , yellow ,beige and red British history month  and any other colors people come in Cool
Report Ron-Russian • October 25, 2016 7:43 PM BST
we all know what they're playing at - quite pathetic really.

it wouldn't surprise if they try rewriting history to make it more PC
Report Ramruma • October 26, 2016 7:37 AM BST
They're rewriting Poldark to make it more PC.
Report saddo • October 26, 2016 11:21 AM BST
Coachbuster    25 Oct 16 19:37 
why have any colour history ?  - this is racist surely  !



Not possible for the luvvies to see themselves as racist, so they call this kind of thing 'positive discrimination'
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 12:31 PM BST
any room for an old english whitey?
Report rogerthebutler • October 26, 2016 12:34 PM BST
Wouldn't it be great if the REAL Brexit social legacy was our collective ability to see people as individual contributors and judge their worth on that basis?

I mean as opposed to pretend hate crimes, bedwetting remoaners and emboldened racists

....and an end to this kind of sectarian bo11ocks?
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 12:37 PM BST
me am a saxon heritage englander and proud of it

I don't want millions of foreigners here.
I don't want lots of foreigners changing my town or village.
I don't want foreign cults, culture and laws telling me what to do.

hope this helps
Report Breedingmad • October 26, 2016 12:43 PM BST
Saxons were immigrants from Germany hate to spoil your identityWink
Report rogerthebutler • October 26, 2016 1:24 PM BST

Oct 26, 2016 -- 6:37AM, mobo wrote:


me am a saxon heritage englander and proud of itI don't want millions of foreigners here.I don't want lots of foreigners changing my town or village.I don't want foreign cults, culture and laws telling me what to do.hope this helps


I'm a white bloke, neither proud or ashamed of my cultures history - but fckd if I'm going to indulge in cultural relativism and keep apologising for it.

I love democracy, grafters, people with a story, people who obey the law, punk rock, have a vague belief in a superior deity but am not going to get into any arguments about it, am aware of my spirituality but more aware we live in a secular world. I like sport, music, porn, booze and gambling. I can't stand people who want something for nothing, who expects everyone else to look after them but do nothing to help themselves and anyone with an exaggerated sense of entitlement - and I believe relying on anyone else to do anything for me is not an option.

I like being surrounded by anyone else who agrees with me, irrespective of age, politics, race, country of birth, origin, gender or where they like to stick it.

hope this helps

Report mobo • October 26, 2016 2:51 PM BST
breeding why do you and the rest of the excusnics refer back to something 1500 hundred years ago in response to a silly poke

get a life you are far too serious
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 2:52 PM BST
oh sorry  yes I see the hate

why do you hate this country?

I am a 1500 hundred year old Saxon - right I get it
Report scandanavian_haven • October 26, 2016 3:10 PM BST
a saxon englanderLaugh

You're not one of these tragic people that gets kitted out in the full saxon clobber, shields and spears n' all, re-enacting the Battle of Hastings on some muddy field in the pissing rain once a year are you?


Reminds me of Nick Griffin on Question Time trying to explain what the indigenous population is and what they look like.

Ironic your username is mobo = music of black origin ?
Report lfc1971 • October 26, 2016 3:20 PM BST
^ he`ll be telling us he doesn't like football or cricket next, what a pillock.
Report lfc1971 • October 26, 2016 3:23 PM BST
nobody gets stabbed at the battle of hastings, I like muddy fields and pouring rain in England.
Report donny osmond • October 26, 2016 3:37 PM BST
A students' union has apologised for using the faces of Zayn Malik and Sadiq Khan -
who both have Pakistani roots - to mark Black History Month.

Neither the former One Direction singer nor the mayor of London are black, and have
no African or Caribbean heritage.

Other public figures chosen by Kent Union, which represents students from the University
of Kent, include Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Trevor McDonald.

Union president Rory Murray has apologised for "not getting it right".



bbc.co.uk
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:44 PM BST
my best mate was created a member of the ethnic group circa 1988 by a high court junction Gypsies etc.

A proper romani gypsy and he boasted about it over several pints.  Being somewhat stunned, I told him to fk off and if he didn't, then as a saxon, I would get my silly horned hat and my axe.
Coz I is a real Saxon - now the rest of you do the same and disappear or else.  Do not upset a member of an ethnic group
It is against the law.
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:45 PM BST
Donny - would that include the 'first black president' who isn't?
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:46 PM BST
mobo - yet another racist construct.
Like I said earlier.  Any room for an old whitey?
Report lfc1971 • October 26, 2016 3:50 PM BST
Grin it is wonderful to celebrate the great history of England, no other country has such a rich and glorious history, and some countries do not have any history at all.
who would deny that?
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:50 PM BST
junction?????  injunction haha
Report donny osmond • October 26, 2016 3:52 PM BST
mobo

i've no idea, it would seem being black is not a skin colour but a birthright !

its all very odd if we take the " out of africa" theory then we is all black !
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:55 PM BST
when is someone going to drag out the Normans and then the huguenots.
Report lfc1971 • October 26, 2016 3:57 PM BST
at the Battle of Hastings death leaps out unbelievably fast. these victims include generals, doctors, teachers, policemen, soldiers and ministers.
not one of them dies a peaceful death.
on those muddy English fields, they die and then come back to life.
Report scandanavian_haven • October 26, 2016 3:58 PM BST
I don't like Cricket, but then again neither does 90% of the population, maybe more. Can't imagine there being more than 6 or so million cricket lovers? what are the viewing figures for a top international game? half?
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 3:58 PM BST
I was talking to a so called 'black' friend yesterday. He is BROWN. I know two whose family originate from an african country, although very dark, they are not BLACK.  It is a stupid categorisation anyway.      I know.     We use it all the time.
Report donny osmond • October 26, 2016 4:00 PM BST
we white folk are brown too
Report scandanavian_haven • October 26, 2016 4:02 PM BST
Mixed raced people refer to themselves as being black and being from the black community, they don't call themselves brown or coloured folk either, only tired old white racists do that.
Report lfc1971 • October 26, 2016 4:02 PM BST
not everyone in England likes cricket, or music. music is the sweetest thing but not everyone has the facility to love it.
I am glad that people in England love their history, not everyone does.
perhaps they don't understand its greatness.
Report mememe • October 26, 2016 4:14 PM BST
Only asking like ...

"Mixed raced people refer to themselves as being black and being from the black community, they don't call themselves brown or coloured folk either, only tired old white racists do that."

So if you've got a white mum and black dad, like Obama, you're black, then.

If you've got a black mum and white dad, like I don't know who, you're black, then?

What if your maternal grandparents are white, your mum's white (obv) but your paternal grandfather is black and your paternal grandmother is white.

Are you black?

only asking because I just don't get the fixation with the colour of anybody's skin to describe them

and the logic is fooking stupid.

Why do lefties have to label people based on the colour of their skin?

Racists!!
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 4:15 PM BST
well, I am a fkn saxon so don't you dare say a word - the lot of use bigots.
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 4:17 PM BST
honkeys is finnish - I red it in the garden paper thingy with all those anti english journos
Report mememe • October 26, 2016 4:18 PM BST
mobo,

what colour are you?

lefties need to know, so you can be positively discrimated against/for
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 4:24 PM BST
That is enough - you were warned - I will get my longboat.  Mememe and the rest are finnish.
Report mememe • October 26, 2016 4:41 PM BST
mobo,

don't shoot. I am on your side - I am of Anglo Saxon heritage and I just love vikings and longboats.  I also like lager.
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 4:53 PM BST
We haven't invented guns yet so you are safe!!
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 4:53 PM BST
FOR THE MOMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report mememe • October 26, 2016 4:56 PM BST
No, but you've got fookin bows and arrows and they can take your eye out!

Just be careful.
Report rogerthebutler • October 26, 2016 5:16 PM BST
scandanavian_haven  • October 26, 2016 3:58 PM BST 


I don't like Cricket


Do you like 10cc?
Report Coachbuster • October 26, 2016 7:54 PM BST
when is someone going to drag out the Normans and then the huguenots.
__________________

i was waiting for the Neanderthals
Report Coachbuster • October 26, 2016 8:06 PM BST
By analysing the genomes of 50 people with European ancestry and 70 people with sub-Saharan African ancestry, Beleza’s team could estimate when the three genes – and pale skin – first became widespread in European populations. The result suggested that the three genes associated with paler skin swept through the European population only 11,000 to 19,000 years ago.


https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-europeans-did-not-inherit-pale-skins-from-neanderthals/
Report Ron-Russian • October 26, 2016 9:32 PM BST
A students' union has apologised for using the faces of Zayn Malik and Sadiq Khan - who both have Pakistani roots - to mark Black History Month.
Neither the former One Direction singer nor the mayor of London are black, and have no African or Caribbean heritage.
Other public figures chosen by Kent Union, which represents students from the University of Kent, include Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Trevor McDonald.
Union president Rory Murray has apologised for "not getting it right".
More news from Kent
Social media posts released for the union's Black History Month campaign featuring Mr Malik and Mr Khan were withdrawn on Tuesday night.
The event's official UK organisers tweeted that they were "deeply disappointed at @KentUnion's ill thought and misdirected Black History Month celebrations".
"With Asian Heritage Month being observed by a growing number of countries in May, will Black icons be celebrated by Kent University then?" they asked.


This is all getting a bit silly isn't it, Crazy
Report Ron-Russian • October 26, 2016 9:38 PM BST
i thought race isn't meant to matter in their little experiment,

will we be having white history month i wonder
Report mobo • October 26, 2016 10:02 PM BST
You have a serious case of xylophonebia
Report scandanavian_haven • October 27, 2016 5:42 AM BST

rogerthebutler


Do you like 10cc?




what is that?
Report rogerthebutler • October 27, 2016 8:45 AM BST

Oct 26, 2016 -- 11:42PM, scandanavian_haven wrote:


rogerthebutlerDo you like 10cc?what is that?


The lyrics to 'Dreadlock Holiday'...............by 10cc

Report alun2005 • November 1, 2016 5:21 PM GMT
It's not a new story, but this article nicely illustrates the ludicrous and desperate attempts that the British Left and various deluded 'special interest' groups to find (or invent) Ethnic Minority Heroes from times of yore to 'inspire' and be role models for today's Wannabe Gangster Rapper generation.

.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/01/how-did-mary-seacole-come-to-be-revered-as-a-black-icon/
Report Coachbuster • November 1, 2016 5:56 PM GMT
rogerthebutler


Do you like 10cc?



what is that?
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you got to be joking man !   you got to show some respect
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