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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.

My village is almost entirely white.
In my primary school I only ever noticed one black person in the year above me, and I'm pretty sure there's almost none living in the village.
When I go into Newton Mearns though for school, there's loads of black people. I heard that something like 40% of Glasgow's immigrants actually live in East Renfrewshire.

They are clustered though. The vast majority of black or coloured people in Glasgow are asylum seekers and are found in Sighthill or other council areas. The entire West End is almost entirely white, most of the suburbs are almost entirely white, most of the decent schemes are almost entirely white. I don't say decent because they are mostly white I hasten to add, but merely because they have less council houses. In general, it's neds that are the ones who make an area bad.

I don't know where down stays in Glasgow, but unless there is a high rise block of flats or a further education college nearby, it's entirely feasible he's not seen any local black people. Not racism, merely fact.

down wrote:
> Black people are really very rare in Glasgow as well, it's shameful
> that a city is so singularly white.

You having a laugh? Head out towards sighthill and you'll see loads.

down wrote:
> Black people are really very rare in Glasgow as well

You should collect them and sell them on E-bay

Nanashi wrote:
> I love bucking stereotypes.

Me too.

Oh wait - you said "bucking".

Black people are really very rare in Glasgow as well, it's shameful that a city is so singularly white.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> The point of that is, this area is 80% white farmers + white 5
> children council houses, and yes I have worked that out. There's no
> racism here because there's only one race.

Is this Wales or Walden? I've never, ever, ever seen a black person in Walden. Until today when I shared a cab with two, and I organised the sharing too, which makes me extra special. Yar.

We take a lot of flack for being an interacially-married couple with mixed children living in the southern US, but whatever. It's mostly amusing. I love bucking stereotypes. ;)

My step dad is very racist always talking about how the darkies come into your house at night and steal everything and do nothing but do drugs during the day, strangely those views never seem to get any further than our house, probably because we're one of about 3 white families in the area.

I usually just stop paying attention and when i hear the noise has stopped in the background I just give him a routine *of course dad* when he's finished. Wonder what he would have said about my black girlfriend i had over in Seattle. Ah well

My dear, dear old mum has a similar attitude to your dad. Except that, when she actually met a friend of mine who was both black and gay, she absolutely loved her to bits. It was a bit awkward when she asked me in her presence why I hadn't "gotten together with a nice girl like her", but aside from that...

The racism of oldies is so instinctive that it's difficult to tell when there's real malice there.