UPDATE
So the BNP scaremongering continues well into election season...I came across this article by Loanna Morrison who is prospective candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southark in London...I was disgusted by her obvious pandering to racist discourse, especially as she's black herself.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2010/02/loanna-morrison-it-is-labours-failure-to-control-immigration-and-its-obsession-with-promoting-multic.htmlSo,
Nick 'slimey' Griffin is on Question Time this evening. It's beyond ridiculous that the word 'debate' is used in the same sentence as the bnp. Part of me thinks the BBC is using this to get ratings. I know loads of people that never watch question time who are now going to be switching on.. let's hope the public give ol' Nick a bit more of a grilling than some of the lazy ass BBC radio 'journalists' did...
Thursday 22 October 2009
Thursday 1 October 2009
The 'Wright' Stuff
After watching a segment on The Wright Stuff, I think I was the most hopping mad I've been in a long while..the subject was 'should teachers who are bnp members be sacked and should there be a law for this?' The analogies used were ludicrous..bnp teacher apparently equates green party teacher...since when has green politics led to psychological trauma?
This is the letter I sent to The Wright Stuff...
Dear Matthew, I am writing in response to today's programme segment discussing teachers who are bnp members.I was absolutely disgusted with the way the panel was flippantly discussing an issue that for so many people from a non white background is hugely important. I grew up in Brent in the 1980s and went to a really good school. As a female, Asian muslim girl, I had no real experience of 'racism' until I was in sixth form and a teacher led a discussion on 'terrorism'. The paper the teacher handed out had only examples of terrorist acts by Arabs/Muslims...and when I was the only one who challenged him in class regarding his one sided presentation, he completely ignored me. I felt angry that this person, who was supposed to be a teacher could use his position to promote a completely one sided view of a serious topic. The following year he had the same piece of paper and the same discussion with the lower sixth group, only one of the boys was a bit more vocal than I had been and complained to the head teacher. Once I found out about this, I approached the head teacher to say this had happened in my class the previous year. After a meeting with concerned parents, the teacher was made to apologise for not presenting a more balanced view and not taking into account how biased his class had been. The reason I am telling you this, is that as a young person it isn't always easy to stand up for yourself, especially if you are the only person in class that is doing so. I was once kicked out of class for telling the teacher how to say a new girl's name properly...so I was mindful of this when challenging another teacher years later.
I was extremely angry that Ann Diamond and the rest of the panel thought this is only an issue of the teacher doesn't propogate his/her agenda. You don't have to live with racism in its many forms, so you'll never experience what it feels like to have someone tell you that because you have more melanin in your skin, you have no right to be in Britain. This is not the same as having a green party member teacher who talks about recycling. This is about a teacher that believes that brown people should be deported, and a teacher that is part of a party that has proven links to fascist organisations in Europe and America. Racism has a huge psychological impact on children, and comes in a variety of forms..not all overt, so hearing you all talk about the bnp's 'democratic' right to hold their views, well that's fine...but where they are in a position of influence and 'power' then they should not be allowed to be near people whose lives they can harm through the many levels of racist behaviour there is."
This is the letter I sent to The Wright Stuff...
Dear Matthew, I am writing in response to today's programme segment discussing teachers who are bnp members.I was absolutely disgusted with the way the panel was flippantly discussing an issue that for so many people from a non white background is hugely important. I grew up in Brent in the 1980s and went to a really good school. As a female, Asian muslim girl, I had no real experience of 'racism' until I was in sixth form and a teacher led a discussion on 'terrorism'. The paper the teacher handed out had only examples of terrorist acts by Arabs/Muslims...and when I was the only one who challenged him in class regarding his one sided presentation, he completely ignored me. I felt angry that this person, who was supposed to be a teacher could use his position to promote a completely one sided view of a serious topic. The following year he had the same piece of paper and the same discussion with the lower sixth group, only one of the boys was a bit more vocal than I had been and complained to the head teacher. Once I found out about this, I approached the head teacher to say this had happened in my class the previous year. After a meeting with concerned parents, the teacher was made to apologise for not presenting a more balanced view and not taking into account how biased his class had been. The reason I am telling you this, is that as a young person it isn't always easy to stand up for yourself, especially if you are the only person in class that is doing so. I was once kicked out of class for telling the teacher how to say a new girl's name properly...so I was mindful of this when challenging another teacher years later.
I was extremely angry that Ann Diamond and the rest of the panel thought this is only an issue of the teacher doesn't propogate his/her agenda. You don't have to live with racism in its many forms, so you'll never experience what it feels like to have someone tell you that because you have more melanin in your skin, you have no right to be in Britain. This is not the same as having a green party member teacher who talks about recycling. This is about a teacher that believes that brown people should be deported, and a teacher that is part of a party that has proven links to fascist organisations in Europe and America. Racism has a huge psychological impact on children, and comes in a variety of forms..not all overt, so hearing you all talk about the bnp's 'democratic' right to hold their views, well that's fine...but where they are in a position of influence and 'power' then they should not be allowed to be near people whose lives they can harm through the many levels of racist behaviour there is."
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