[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Indeed

I am 'mixed race' and grew up in a northern 'working class' relatively deprived area in an era when no other 'coloured' families were there, and neither then, nor as I matured, have I EVER encountered any form of racism or colour prejudice from anyone I have ever met -- and that includes most locations throughout the United Kingdom over decades.

I was treated so equally by my kind and decent 'white' neighbours and all the other people I encountered as a child, that I actually lost sight of the fact that I was coloured and sometimes looking in the mirror surprised me.

I do not claim that there are not now white 'racists' in the UK, but they are definitely in a small minority, and the same racism is equally as prevalent in a minority of black people and other races.

I will NEVER do Britain or the British people down, because it is their charity and decency which afforded my mother (and me) a life here.

There are worse people and worse countries.