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"Conversation I had with my Father..."

Bit of back-story: we've had the house next to us empty for some time, and various people have been to look, including a middle-aged lesbian couple (not that there's anything wrong with that). But yesterday some people came to view it, and my Dad was livid, for they were...BLACK!!!1174

Him: "You'll probably be worried to hear that some black ones had a look in next door yesterday."
Me: "'Black' whats?" (already knowing where this is heading...)
Him: "Two black people"
Me: "You mean two people?"
Him: "Well you may not realise this but they have a penchant for staying up all night, being loud and playing loud music all day and night"
Me: "So you'll be voting for the BNP in the next election then?"
Him: "I don't even know what you're talking about"
Me: "British National Party"
Him: "Don't talk down to me"

That's more or less word-for-word what he said, only I was probably more macho than the scene suggests. I scuttled off to the study shortly after.

I'm quite shocked actually, at how blatant he was with it. I've seen him make "Ook ook ook" sounds when we've driven past a black person before, but I thought that was his attempt at being funny, not trying to drill massive racism into me.

I have a sickle-cell

Are we playing name interesting cell defects? I have played in a while, I might be rusty.

Yeah, I know about sickle-cell. Stops those damn dirty mozzies, eh?

Stryke wrote:
> I didn't realise that your ethnicity contributed towards the makeup
> of your blood. I should really, seeing as I study Biology.
> Interesting fact, though.


...Sickle cell anaemia?

Stryke wrote:
> I had to tick my ethnicity today when I gave blood. Whiter than the
> driven snow, I put.
>
> I didn't realise that your ethnicity contributed towards the makeup
> of your blood. I should really, seeing as I study Biology.
> Interesting fact, though.
>
> Do you reckon a racist would refuse to take blood from a different
> race if they could have the option of knowing?
>
> Don't really know where I'm going with this. There'll be racists out
> there who have had their lives saved by a donation from the ones they
> hate.

Just reading the topic and saw this one. Reminds me of a MASH episode where there was a racists patient who refused to have coloured blood, so Hawkeye and Trapper played a trick where they used dye to paint his skin, to make him think he was turning into a black. Anyhoo at the end, they told him the story of a certain doctor in the USA who co-descovered (descovered) penicilin (i think) he died in a hospital because they refused to treat him as it was a whites only.

MASH is great, fantastic program.

I don't find that funny at all. My dads black and you can't stereotype people like that. If you moved next door to them and they said. Oh look white people we'll never get to sleep with their paste faces brightening up the street, your dad woulod'nt like it would he?

*Checks to see if anyone has mentioned the Seinfeld reference*

Hahaha, 'some black ones' thats an amusing term.

Sometimes you can get away with using politically incorrect terms - there are ways to construct sentences that sound ironic, or are clearly a joke. In those cases it depends on the response received. In this case it was an unprovoked attack, based on a stereotype, and he wasn't even joking.

It's not meant to be racial and I know I said it is frequently used but only when it's obvious that it's not racist.Me and my mates are not in any way racist so we never intentionally go to far.

Walrus wrote:
> Chippxero wrote:
> I call my friends with brown or black hair 'Darkies', but never in
> public as i wouldn't want someone to over hear it and assume i am
> being racis
>
> I am frequently referred to as a Pakki by my mates and it doesn't
> bother me.

Yeah but the difference is i would never refer to my black friends as 'Darkies' because i wouldn't want to offend them racially.