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Originally Posted by Wildcat!

Picking up from where I left off, I would like to now compare the two societies I have lived in USA and the UK. Both societies, where Black is a minority.

They both have their problems of racism, and inequalities, but the difference is, the steps taken to rectify or help the situation. I have lived in both places, and I can tell you this, I feel a lot more welcome, and integrated in the US, than in the UK! Black people mix a lot more with other races in the US than they do here. I am not saying they dont have racism and stuff there, they do, very much so. But the point is, they have taken the steps to make a change. I have always felt like Black people in the UK were not oppressed, but suppressed. Like a lot of them dont feel like they should have the same opportunities as the white people. Affirmative action was used in teh US, to help minorities get more jobs, and it actually worked. It gets a lot of criticism, but it worked. a black person growing up in the us know that if they get an education, they have a great chance of belonging to the elite in the society. Not so much here. Of course, its still a work in progress, but the point is, the steps were taken. I feel like the UK is at the same point as the US was back in the 80s, during the LA riots. I could never see something like that ever happening again, because people dont feel that desperate anymore.

The point of this post is that, it seems like people in this country do not want to see anything change. They are happy with the status quo. And I dont see the Black people themselves doing anything to change that. Again, probably because they dont feel entitled.

So to me a big problem is, in the UK, people dont want to hear it! Period.

Seriously? I mean, I've never lived there of course, but racial divisions in the USA seem far more prominent than here in the UK. Those figures I quoted up above were about the USA from here http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/...sheet-erm.aspx and it really doesn't look to me like the US is some beacon of racial progressiveness

And the South. There's so much racism in the South, they even still have the Confederacy flag flying above the Louisiana State Courthouse