[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Having council funded events, such as those seen in the news letter in the first post, which are advertised as being exclusively for 'B.M.E. ladies only' is utterly, 100% wrong.

Morally wrong, and since we have race discrimination laws in this country, lawfully wrong.

Even culturally it doesn't make sense.

At those events there'd be a welcome for a young bride recently arrived from Pakistan, a Chinese British born lesbian, a evangelical Nigerian woman.

But a retired lollipop lady, who happened to be white, would be turned away, because the events are for 'Black & Mixed Ethnic ladies only'.

It's wrong. Period.

Besides it doesn't work, because it causes, and perpetuates a divisive society.

I agree with what Eric hinted at. If there was a group of people, who were disadvantaged because they weren't equal before the law, there could be an argument that there was a need for minority groups to be funded by the state, in order to fight for equality.

Since we have anti-discrimination laws in place in the U.K. to prevent prejudice based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity. There is no conceivable argument that tax payers' money should be spent funding any organisation that openly discriminates against any other group.

Everyone should be treated equally and fairly.

That is the only way we'll have a society where there's cohesion, rather than division.

Integration.

Not separation.

The trouble with this country is, that for many years we have been expected to jump through hoops to accommodate the needs of people moving to these shores, at the expense of things which affect the fabric of our society, things like renaming Christmas so not to offend other religions, the trouble being that usually these other religions weren't complaining it was the do gooders second guessing what these people "MIGHT" be thinking. We have been continually told we are a multicultural society, yet it was the indigenous population who were expected to change to accommodate others. If people from this country move abroad are other nations expected to change to accommodate our needs not a snowball in hells chance, so why does it happen here