2006-08-23 06:43:06 · 15 answers · asked by Curiosity 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
I am a black woman born in England I don't think that the UK has failed its Black people. In what way are you saying that. My dad being the eldest of his family came to this country with nothing and with the help of this country was able to send money back to the Caribbean to his mother who used it to help raise his brothers and sisters also with the help of this country has been able to own his house here and build two homes in his home country You only get out what you put in black people today are lucky not like when my dad first came to this country it was hard not knowing what to expect We as black people should not blame the UK for failing us but we are selves we can strive to be what we want to be if we study and put in the work I am not in a posh area or live in a big house but the path that we choose is of our own making
2006-08-23 07:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by jaci 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
During colonial days when Britain (was Great),it plundered entire world including African and Indian communities.Now Britain is a small country depending on leftovers of USA.Now UK is being plundered by all!
2006-08-25 05:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me a section of the community it isn't failing. I live in a very poor, although almost exclusively white area, and believe me the people around here have been let down, betrayed and abandoned time and again by every government I can remember.
2006-08-23 13:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by Nneave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is where the old american phrase "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" seems apt. Illegal immigrants, failed asylum seekers, english workshy benefit fraudsters etc all bleed the system dry in this country and fail to put anything back, and the archaic red tape machines that our government operates on fail to deal with any of them effectively. So instead of bitchin and moaning about what the system thats given just about all it can isnt giving anymore go shop a benefit fraudster! or dob on an illegal immegrant!
2006-08-23 13:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by xx_connor_uk_xx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice one Jaci...to be mixed-race in Norwich in the early-late seventies was surreal, but it was fairly easy to switch off (depending on your determination) and make efforts to succeed. You strive to continue to walk the path you choose - perhaps it was harder in, say, Manchester, Newcastle, or London. I doubt whether people of colour feel sorry for themselves, or wonder why successive governments are not 'giving them what they deserve'. Could be we have been 'short-changed', but hey...grew up with white bairns who have remained on the other side of the tracks no matter what they had done to improve situations - as has been uttered earlier on, we've all been skanked at some stage...but some of us have rose above it.
2006-08-23 15:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In what way?
Or is it just that UK is failing ALL its communities and citizens. So perhaps it should not be taken personally or as any form of racism or hatred!
2006-08-23 13:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by Sally J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the UK isn't much different than the US in social-economic politics:)
2006-08-23 15:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are a product of the UK, your school system has failed you in learning.
2006-08-23 13:49:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bravo, Jaci! That's a sentiment that needs to be echoed world wide; not just in the U.K.
2006-08-23 19:09:27 · answer #9 · answered by cgspitfire 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uk has failed by the look of things, get a life
2006-08-24 06:52:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋