Friday 3 August 2012

What a great story - even if I shouldn't've cut-and-paste from Facebook


Bitches' out here passin out pussy like club flyers
A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said "I cannot sit here next to this black man." The fight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat." After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "Ma'am, there are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class." About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class." Before the woman could say anything, the attendant gestured to the black man and said, "Therefore sir, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person." Passengers in the seats nearby began to applause while some gave a standing ovation. LIKE
If you are against racism....

And my reply:

After a couple (4) drinks in me that nearly made me tear up... when I read the first part I was thinking 'I hope that hasn't since the '70s', but reading the rest of that, I assume it's from the '00s or '10s, but I hope that stupid bitch felt humiliated, and even better, I hope her world felt like it was turned inside outside because she is obviously too ignorant to even consider for one second why the flight attendant AND captain AND passengers would all have a conspiracy against her.

Speaking for myself, having been born in '76, I haven't really seen any overt racism since the '90s (and I left the States by then), and what I did see, luckily, was quite infrequent.  But there's no excuse for it, any time, anywhere.  I feel quite strongly about gay rights as well, and the one thing that is so tough about it is that it's one thing when someone takes the piss out of you/bullies you when it's because of something you've DONE.  When someone bullies you because of the way you were born, whether it's because you are black, brown, gay, have an unusual-looking face because of a birth defect, are missing a limb or stature because of a genetic disease... in that situation when someone bullies you are utterly defenceless.  

Call someone stupid for what they have DONE; never call someone stupid for who they are.

(This is an issue close to my heart, but luckily I've never been treated as badly as some others have.  [Sadly some people have lost their lives at the hands of bullies/thugs for no other reason than being different to the bullies/thugs.])  What a shame that a 16-year-old Nigerian boy, a cello player and basketball player, about to sit 11 GCSEs and get 11 Bs, As and a couple A*s in all 11, gets beaten to death or maimed by a gang of 16- to 21-year-olds, who have 5 GCSEs between the 5 of them, 3 of whom have previous convictions, and this young lad would probably have paid more tax to society and constructively contributed to more lives had he been allowed to live to a natural life span than the whole of the other five, for whom the taxpayer would probably fork out hundreds of thousands, off-and-on, continuously, for decades for their detention at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

What's the real danger?  Immigrants who actually WANT to be part of Britain (I'm not talking about those who abuse or use the system), or those lazy wastes of oxygen who lament a return to a historical point that they can't actually comprehend because they were too stupid to even get a GSCE when their educations were then being funded by taxpayers?  

I don't want to evoke Christian sayings/words/anything, so thank God/thank fuck that plain 'ol common sense is still out there.