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Post by roddy byers on Mar 17, 2008 21:42:06 GMT
If yer friends a racist he aint no friend.
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Post by gofeet4 on Mar 17, 2008 21:45:09 GMT
Had friends who are racist. They are still racist but they ain't friends no more.
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Post by gofeet4 on Mar 17, 2008 21:47:15 GMT
I feel a song coming on!
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 17, 2008 21:48:10 GMT
Sing up gofeet4 !!
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Post by gofeet4 on Mar 17, 2008 22:00:09 GMT
On a more serious note, Roddy, do you think that the message of racial harmony that The Specials and 2 Tone were promoting way back when has been realised?
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Post by Hugh on Mar 17, 2008 22:13:22 GMT
Good question, but sadly no.
Racists learn not to spray their bile in my direction. I certainly don't have any as friends. This old one told me in the local awhile ago that I was ignorant, and I heard afterward that he was stunned by my respose. He's rather quiet and polite when we occasionally cross paths, and I don't speak with him whatsoever as he's invisible to me now.
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 17, 2008 22:31:04 GMT
I think we changed a few minds back in the day and hopefully they passed on the message to their children, but sadly today we need a hundred thousand bands like the Specials just to scratch the suface of racism.
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Post by gofeet4 on Mar 17, 2008 22:45:38 GMT
I've been watching a programme on T.V recently called 'WHITE' and if that programme is any reflection on todays society then I am truly saddened that you are probably right.
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Post by gofeet4 on Mar 17, 2008 22:52:52 GMT
I think we changed a few minds back in the day and hopefully they passed on the message to their children, but sadly today we need a hundred thousand bands like the Specials just to scratch the suface of racism. Just one band EXACTLY like The Specials would be a start! Come on you know you want to!!!!!!!
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 18, 2008 9:08:31 GMT
Want to what?
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 18, 2008 10:30:24 GMT
Baby Skab wrote: <<I prefer this forum because it's far more sensible, don't you know!>>
I agree with you Baby Skab....so now we've all dealt with our racist atStrawberry Sauceudes, perhaps we can look at the sexist question! 2-tone was not just about fighting racism. it was about fighting sexism. women are just asking for a bit of respect and should not be attacked as 'Missus Indignant' if a debate is opened about the quality of some of the posts on thespecials.com site. as far as i can recollect 9 female musicians were involved in the first vanguard of 2-tone bands: the bodysnatchers, the selecter and the swinging cats. so in their memory show a bit of respect.
e.g. while discussing the 'Be Good Tanyas'( a very good all female band) on the specials website, which was a thread begun by Hugh, somebody called Paul Willo posted this:
<<Question is.........
what do they look like naked? >>
which was replied to by hrdraper (Hugh if i'm not mistaken!) as follows:
<<I'll see if I can get their panties for Dell to wear on his head. _________________ There's still nothing wrong with it!>>
This is just one example of many, in your quest to be 'just havin' a laugh'. Personally, I'm sick of hearing about how you know a racist, but you don't speak to him.....big deal......go to the top of the class.......i'm surprised that you only know one!! Your fight against the one racist, is of course, commendable, but stop being hypocrites on the sexist front, otherwise i will continue being a 'Little Lassie's Mother & She Was Bad'!!!! _________________
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 18, 2008 13:15:52 GMT
Yes all these blokes need their girl friends or wives to give them a good ear bashing. That is if they are man enough to even have a girl friend or wife.
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 18, 2008 14:35:59 GMT
don't remember writing <<'Little Lassie's Mother & She Was Bad'!!!!>> Now that is funny!!!! and well said Sir Skab of Skabbington, although I would recommend a good spanking to all those errant husbands and boyfriends......always good for the soul or should that read ****sole! sorry....just havin' a laugh!
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 18, 2008 15:21:50 GMT
Tis a pity but those likely lads would enjoy a good spanking too much im affraid.
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 18, 2008 17:30:38 GMT
'nuff said'......although the term 'likely lads' is gilding the lily a bit.....middle-aged hypocrites is a more accurate term!
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