sat at my paid job tonight and two young black ladies come in. as they’ve been in before (and are very easy on the eye) i smile and say hello. unlike normal, neither answer, nor do they return my smile. odd.
they continue their shopping. then return to the tills. again ignoring me. nothing unusual in that, but i am whistling along to the radio and one turns, tuts and says summat i can’t quite catch. the conversation that followed shocked me to my core.
i ask if i have done something to upset her and i am told i am a racist. ME!!
i ask her nicely to explain why and she says that every day i have smiled and said hello and they thought i was nice, but the previous night as they were leaving i “stared to whistle a slaves working son”
no, me neither!
i again ask her what she is talking about. again she says summat about my whistling. i tell her i ALWAYS either whistle or sing as it passes the tedium, but i hev never, nor will i ever racially abuse ANYONE let alone a customer. at this point a regular copper walks in, see me talking to two girls and says “stop flirting”… oh boy. talk about oil on flames? the copper looks at me, i shake my head, he asks where the sandwiches are. the girl making the accusation walks away with copper to show him, leaving me with the silent and cuter one of the two. i say to her “look my love, if i did said or whistled anything to offend then it was purely by accident as i am not a racist. ask anyone working here or the customers of many races creeds and colours that i talk to and have a laugh with. and if that doesn’t convince you then here” at which i get out my phone, turn on spotify and show her my extensive playlists. predominantly ska, reggae. i AM a skinhead love, but you have to understand that True skins embrace black culture and love it, we’re not racists. at this point her eyes take on a sparkle and she smiles. “i never heard you say a thing, and to be honest thought you were too nice a person to do such a thing. i don’t know what she’s on about”
her mate comes back. and the girl i’d been talking to grabs her and whispers summat in her ear. when she reurfaces, i say to girl one “ i am so sorry if anything i was whistling was offensive to you, but it was never my intent to cause any upset. i have no idea what the songs you say are slavery based are, and can only apologise again”. she said she believed me and said sorry! they then start to ask about jobs and when i say there are none, they say ok, thanks and start to go. at which point girl no2 just comes right out and asks for my phone number!
of course i decline to give it, as flattered as i was. at which point they leave. and i turn around and kick the nearest thing to me. odd times.
ttfn
sime.
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I have, and will continue to, racially abuse certain people.
Not because of their colour or origins or religious beliefs…I have many friends who are black, brown, Hindu, Sikh and…even..muslim.
However…
I had a major ruck in a shop the other day…some Asian tried to talk ‘over me’ in his own language to the shop keeper as I was being served by said shop keeper.
I said ‘OI!…Get some manners!’ and he retorted ‘Multi cultural!’…that’s all he said. No ‘Sorry mate’ no backing off…he glared at me and said that.
I head butted him and he went down. I paid for my stuff and left wtthout another word.
Now, I agree that head butting him was not exactly a suptle approach – I really must learn to control my temper..I know… – but this IS MY country more than it is his – even if he was born here to be honest.
All I ask is respect for MY country and MY ways and the respect will be returned in spades…oops…can’t use that word eh?..;-)
No respect for ME in MY country then I’ll react….and, no doubt be dubbed racist.
Tough shit.
A war is coming my friend….trust me…I’m from Oldham…I don’t eant it, you don’t want it and, mostly, they don’t ant it…but it’s coming…as sure as eggs are eggs…
4D x