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Title: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 02, 2017, 06:40:52 PM
Didn't agree with everything he said but he said it well and was thought provoking


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39473698
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: floo on April 04, 2017, 09:12:40 AM
It worries me that racism appears to becoming much more in evidence again in the last few years.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Harrowby Hall on April 04, 2017, 09:44:09 AM
Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Rhiannon on April 04, 2017, 10:04:56 AM
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on April 04, 2017, 09:44:09 AM
Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.

More worryingly, I've noticed a tendency for some to jump on the bandwagon - people that might not have been overtly racist before. Xenophobia is hip.

I don't think it is just the EU referendum that is to blame. Anti Islam and anti refugee rhetoric has fuelled it too.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: floo on April 04, 2017, 10:37:01 AM
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on April 04, 2017, 09:44:09 AM
Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.

The referendum certainly hasn't helped. Also the rise of the nasty party UKIP has encouraged those with racist tendencies to voice them in a way that they might not have done before.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on April 04, 2017, 03:07:29 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 02, 2017, 06:40:52 PM
Didn't agree with everything he said but he said it well and was thought provoking


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39473698

Agreed. Darcus rather than Louis Farrakhan.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Robbie on April 04, 2017, 06:26:38 PM
I met Darcus Howe when I was very young, late 1970s, & knew a lot about him. I admired him with some reservations.
He hasn't been a well man for a long time so am glad he is no longer suffering. He will be remembered, on the whole, verywell in my opinion.
Title: Re: Darcus Howe dead
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on April 04, 2017, 10:43:53 PM
FWIW I think that Darcus would appreciate the following analogy.

You throws some stones to the left, you throws some stones to the right.

What matters is the right ones mean more than the left.