Would you say race relations legislation is a failure in this country?

Question

Just interested in what others think

Answer 1

You can't legislate and enforce the way people should feel about one another. Racial harmony needs to be encouraged by other means.

If people hate each other and the government mandates that we love each other, people don't necessarily stop hating, but more likely just begin hating the government as well.

Answer 2

I don't know that it's a failure, but something has worked a change on the country. When I was a little kid, a bi-racial couple would have trouble finding a place to live. Now such a couple would barely turn heads. Maybe legislation caused it, maybe it didn't, but things are better.

I think the major stumbling block to improving race relations going forward is the confusion between "race" and "culture".

Being "black" is a matter of race. "Rap music" is a matter of culture.

As long as whites don't assume that "rap" defines all blacks, and blacks don't assume not liking "rap" makes a white person a racist, we can move forward.

Point being that I don't think legislation can do more than has been done. It's not up to the government anymore, and improvement isn't up to just whites.

Answer 3

Yes they have and it is because both sides have to at least try, but the way I see it is the whites have bent over backwards and the blacks and browns have just gotten worst. It has come to the point to where the black and brown are more bigoted than any white ever was. The blacks have had almost 50 years to improve themselves with every break that the government can give them and have done nothing with the opportunity. A small minority have stepped up made it work but most just took effort as a handout and stood with their hand out for more saying it is not enough. For these people it will never be enough. There is no opportunity in the inner city not because of the white man not trying it is because of the black man not trying. You brown people are on the same fast track so don’t blame the white man. As for the Orientals I think you have done an exceptional job at melting in and at the same time keeping your heritage. To have your children come here and not be able to speak English and within a few years become honor students is admirable. I am a realist. Just step back and take a look at “China Town” verses “The Ghetto”, one is alive and prosperous and the other is dead.

Answer 4

I think the race relations legislation is a joke, and it is all the liberal morons who write stuff like this and shout racist every time something happens are the ones who are actually keeping racism alive!

Take the 'Black' police officers association for example. Why isn't there a white or asian equivalent to adress the balance? Why is there a need to segregate a particular colour as different from everyone else on the force?

It's ridiculous.

Answer 5

That type of legislation is a failure. So is the attempt to de-segregate the schools by force busing the students. Racism, ethnic hatred, and religious hatred is taught at home. We parents, whether directly or indirectly teach our children this. No legislation is going to prevent what children learn at home.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter whether there is legislation or not, 'race relations' will always fail, there is not one example where people of different races live together in total harmony, England is a classic example of that failure with the many different races choosing to self segregate, this will never change however many rules and regulations are brought in.

Answer 7

Depends. If you are black, no. If you are white, yes.

See, if you see the complaints from blacks about racism, you see nooses being hung from trees, police brutality, not being respected in the workplace even if you outperform everyone else... I can't afford college because the Republicans took the funding away.

If you look at it from the white complaints, you find, we can't call them the "n" word. Why is there a BET and not WET? Why is there NAACP? Why do my tax dollars go to helping people that don't help themselves?

The two just don't seem to equal out.

Answer 8

There should be no race related legislation. We are all the same and should be treated as such.

Answer 9

i think its done the job it was intended to do..... its turned the indigenous people of Briton into frightened sheep, scared to say any! thing in case it might be seen as racist. thus enabeling this traiterouse government to flood our country with immigants, with no opposition. its the finest piece of social castration i have ever seen. you hand the people the bricks. and they do it them selves. actualy...read what Black Majic say's. he is right.

Answer 10

like all these types of organisations, when equal status has been achieved, the problems begin, they are no longer happy with that, they suddenly want special rights because they are different