To all those that welcome/encourage the small boat migrants.

[Harry Bloomfield]

I actually thought he meant a chimney sweep with his face covered in soot.

The first I saw, was a passenger on a bus, when with my mother - I must have been maybe four. I commented rather loudly, 'mam, that misters face is black'. She told me to hush.

 

[motorbiking]

I don't think most people particularly care about skin colour. It's cultural integration that is key. Making it about skin colour plays in to a "racism" trap, that isn't there for many.

Its not racist to be against religious based laws, it's not racist, to want people to show their faces, shake hands when they great etc. treat women equally etc.

 

[aveatry]

Only way to deal with these savages

There is no way they should of tazered him.




Just there because he may have damaged that car on the way down to meet the floor with his face.

 

[aveatry]

This is only tangentially related. But when we were little kids and we asked where Mum was, Dad would say "she's run away with a black man". I've just been Googling and apparently it was very common. Does anyone else remember that?

Nope it was just your Mum

 

[Mottie]

This is only tangentially related. But when we were little kids and we asked where Mum was, Dad would say "she's run away with a black man". I've just been Googling and apparently it was very common. Does anyone else remember that?

I’ve never heard that saying before!

 

[motorbiking]

There is no way they should of tazered him.




Just there because he may have damaged that car on the way down to meet the floor with his face.

I'm shocked at the behaviour... But not as shocked as he was.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Only way to deal with these savages

Well deserved!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I’ve never heard that saying before!

Maybe a Northern thing?

 

[MNW67]

Nope it was just your Mum

 

[MNW67]

I’ve never heard that saying before!

Dad would say it if Mum had gone to the shops etc. and we asked where she was.

 

[Highway Man]

Dad would say it if Mum had gone to the shops etc. and we asked where she was.

Perhaps your dad was just being honest with you.

 

[pete01]

This is only tangentially related. But when we were little kids and we asked where Mum was, Dad would say "she's run away with a black man". I've just been Googling and apparently it was very common. Does anyone else remember that?

Yes i remember that well, my Dad was so upset

 

[Scally-Ho]

Remembering old sayings, my Nan used to say to me when I caught a finger in a door that it would come up like a 'black man's pinch'.

 

[Lirefighter]

This is only tangentially related. But when we were little kids and we asked where Mum was, Dad would say "she's run away with a black man". I've just been Googling and apparently it was very common. Does anyone else remember that?

I remember my dad saying that a few times. It must be a northern thing as he was a geordie.
There was one black lad in my primary school, we were friends but he was never around that much.
I remember smacking him in the chops with a golf club though.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Yes was a very common saying, I was such a good looking child that if anyone asked where I was, they would say a black man has run away with him.

Were you a child model? I can imagine if, back in the day, M&S had a huge picture of you in their stores in the child clothes area, sales would sky rocket. They would probably sell out in minutes.

None of us on here, anywhere, can ever expect to reach your levels of perfection. However we can dream ...