Showing posts with label racist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racist. Show all posts

Monday, 2 April 2012

SCUM : English Defence League member found guilty of threatening Muslim taxi driver because of his religion

CHARLES DICKIE of TENNYSON ROAD, DAVENTRY - RACIST SCUM

English Defence League member found guilty of threatening Muslim taxi driver because of his religion


A MAN who claims to be a member of the English Defence League has been found guilty of threatening a Muslim taxi driver because of his religion, after “refusing” to attend court to mount a defence to the charge.
Charles Dickie, aged 23, was due to appear before magistrates in Northampton yesterday to stand trial over an incident in Daventry earlier this month, but he would not get into a prison van to transport him to the hearing, the court heard.
After hearing the case in his absence, chair of the bench, Mabel Lilley, found the case against Dickie proved, and said the magistrates were minded to impose a 20-week prison sentence when Dickie could be brought before the court.
Taxi driver Sultan Ahmed said he had worked in Daventry for the past three-and-a-half years. He said that on Friday, March 2, he had been waiting for a customer in Brook Street at about 4.30pm when he was approached by Dickie.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “He said we are here, all over this place, in this country, and you are not welcome here.”
Dickie then sang a song insulting both Islam and Mr Ahmed and uttered expletives, before moving in closer and pointing to his genitals.
Mr Ahmed said: “He looked very angry and aggressive. He looked as if he was about to fight with me.”
Giovanni D’Alessandro, prosecuting, said Dickie had told police officers when arrested: “I’m not racist. I don’t like Muslims.”
He also talked continuously about the EDL and made threats towards a planned mosque in Daventry, the court was told.
Magistrates heard Dickie, of Tennyson Road, in Daventry, was previously convicted of making racially-aggravated threats in 2007, and they were shown evidence from his Facebook site to support the prosecution case.
Sentencing, Mrs Lilley said: “We feel this was a particularly nasty incident directed towards Mr Ahmed.
“There was a certain amount of planning on Mr Dickie’s part. He deliberately insulted Mr Ahmed and used abusive and insulting words towards him.”
In a statement to the court, Mr Ahmed said he had been “deeply upset and hurt” by Dickie’s actions, adding: “I can’t understand why Mr Dickie felt the way he did, to voice such hatred.”
Magistrates revoked a community order previously imposed against Dickie for an assault in Blackpool in May last year and for failure to surrender to bail.
Mrs Lilley said she was minded to sentence Dickie to four weeks in prison for the assault and two weeks for the bail offence, along with the 20 weeks for the religiously-aggravated offence against Mr Ahmed.
However, sentencing was adjourned to a date yet to be set.

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

'Why wasn't The Hunger Games cast as I imagined in my racist reading?!'


People upset by the casting of Rue, Thresh and Cinna in the Hunger Games film may want to take a look at themselves
2012, THE HUNGER GAMES
Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) and Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in The Hunger Games. Photograph: Allstar/Lionsgate/Sportsphoto
"Why does rue have to be black, not gonna lie kind ruined the movie"

"I was pumped about the Hunger Games. Until I learned a black girl was playing Rue"

"Totally not expecting Thresh to be some big black guy"

"Why did the producer make all the good characters black"

" … I don't think he will be able to re-enact Cinna's calm temper and quiet personality … " 

"Omg thought he was white crying omg wtf this movie will suck"
  1. The Hunger Games
  2. Production year: 2012
  3. Country: USA
  4. Cert (UK): 12A
  5. Runtime: 142 mins
  6. Directors: Gary Ross
  7. Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hucherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Woody Harrelson
  8. More on this film
Many of us will have seen the racist tweets ofThe Hunger Games fandom over the last few days. At the risk of sounding like the veteran with the thousand-yard stare, I wasn't surprised. Some of the comments above were posted last November, after the character posters were revealed. At the time, I tweeted about the obvious and not-so-obvious racism on display – in these people's minds all fictional characters, but especially those set in "non-modern" scenarios, are white. The expectation even extends into genres outside of sci-fi and cult series, and anything that threatens this notion is labelled as "PC gone mad".
I am a woman of colour with a deep – almost unhealthy – love of popular culture. It is a love that is sorely tested in the face of such prejudice when I am told, loudly and with few qualms, that the stories of people who look like me just aren't viable in a specific universe. It is often explicitly stated by my co-fans that I am not – ever – what they picture when they read these books or hear about these movies. The language may be coded: "She's not how I imagined" or, in the case of interracial couple Sam and Mercedes on TV's Glee, slightly more explicit: "They don't look right together, like, they don't … fit." But the message is clear. We get to be supporting characters – the redshirts – or the villains. But heroes? Um, no. That would make things too … ethnic.
I am a huge fan of The Hunger Games and read the trilogy in great greedy gulps. And as several people have pointed out, author Suzanne Collins made it very clear indeed that Rue was dark-skinned (black, as opposed to the more ambiguous description of Katniss as "olive-skinned"), as was her co-tribute from District 11, Thresh. So it comes to this: if the casting of RueThresh and Cinna has left you bewildered and upset, consider two things. One: you may be a racist – congrats! Two: you definitely lack basic reading comprehension. Mazel tov!
martha jonesFreema Agyeman, who played Martha Jones, Doctor Who's assistant. Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Of course, fandom has a way of getting upset about non-white casting all the time. In recent years, there has been varying levels of dissent around the casting of Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) as the Doctor's companion, a blackQueen Guinevere (Angel Coulby) in BBC's Merlin, and Idris Elba's casting as Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's Thor. Every so often there's uproar about the (still-yet-to-happen) possibility of a black Bond. And of course there was the infamous #Donald4Spidermanhashtag of 2010. Whenever these issues flare up, I like to think about Elba's comments to upset fanboys after his casting was revealed: "Can a black man play a Nordic character? Hang about, Thor's mythical, right? Thor has a hammer that flies to him when he clicks his fingers. That's OK, but the colour of my skin is wrong?" Echoed by one Tumblr commenter: "Dragons, sure. But black people? Sir, you go too far!"
Meanwhile, the whitewashing of characters rarely gets more than a cursory glance. That's changing slowly: there was a rightful fuss over the casting in M Night Shyamalan's 2008 film, The Last Airbender, in which three of the four leads were cast as white, even though the source material has them as East Asian or Native American. Last year, George Takei spoke out against the casting of the new Akira film, in which Warner Bros has cast white actors as the two leads (they apparently retain their Japanese names).
I recall reading Enid Blyton's boarding school books as a child and knowing that none of the girls in those books looked anything like me. Years later, I went to boarding school in Nigeria and enjoyed many a midnight feast and eluded many a strict teacher, just as the Malory Towers girls did. I don't recall ever looking around my dormitory of young brown-faced girls and thinking that we weren't "right". We didn't look like Darrell, Sally, Mavis or Gwendolyn. But that's okay. We were real too.
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Monday, 26 March 2012

Rivals (a review) : Documentary on the continued rivalry and hostility between Celtic and Rangers supporters






Good film documenting the rivalry and politics of the Old Firm following. Now, this is much better than I expected it to be. The premise of the English lad who made this is that essentially both sides, Celtic or Rangers, are essentially the same, just divided by an old tribal rivalry based upon religion, expressed through football. And whilst from a sociological point of view he may have a point, that is also the case between the loyalist and the republican communities in the 6 counties too. But that in itself tells you nothing. It is politics that is key here - as in most things. And the different politics of the two supports shines through here.

So, are they all the same? Judge for yourself. But when it comes to wrapping yourself in the iconoography of Royalty, Orange supremacy and Empire or the symbolism of Irish Republicanism, ant-fascism and Che Guevara, well, where do you think I'm going to stand?

Incidentally, the film maker says he and his crew were attacked by Rangers supporters whilst trying film - for being English - but then whoever said loyalist bigotry and racism was logical? And the footage shows they were clearly intimidated and harrassed by supporters of this team pretty much throughout their filming. Whereas the Celtic supporters shown appear to have welcomed them into their pubs and clubs warmly - albeit boisterously! That in itself I believe speaks volumes about the politics and culture of the respective support.

And you know, I dont beleive every Rangers supporter is a fascist. Well, not until there is a match on. Ive met plenty of Rangers fans who were self defining socialists, scottish nationalists, anti-racists etc. But get a few pints inthem on match day, and they will be belting out 'Billy Boy' with the best off them, drunkenly singing of how they are "up to their knees in fenian blood" and lauding the exploits of the fascist gang leader Billy Fullerton. 90 minute bigtos they may be, but a hell of a lot of damage can be done in those 90 minutes. Doesn't even take 90 seconds to cut a young boys throat.

There are those, particularly within the SNP, who claim Rangers is a part of Scotland, a part of our tradition and culture and for that it should be saved. And it may be all those things, but they are the very worst aspects of our nation and our culture, celebrating our shame, our involvement in Empire and colonisation, our lackeying and our soldiering for Englands conquests.
And Rangers provides a focus for the celebration and continuation of that. Without Rangers such views would still exists, bigotry will not die overnight, but it would no longer have a home, a hot house to nurture and grow in.

Rangers demise would be one step forward on the path to a progressive Scotland of equals.


http://www.vice.com/en_uk/rivals/
Exploring the most famous rivalry in world football.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Oxford Uni Tory Students Sing Nazi Songs At "Policy making" Piss-ups


Typical upper-class, tory scum. These are your future rulers. This is the same Oxford Tory Club that produced David Cameron and the rest of the Bullingdon boys. Born and bred to be psychopathic, immoral, lecherous, greedy parasites.

These are "the elite". An oligarchic perversion.

If these people where born into a different class, a different section of society, they would be neds, getting pissed on Bucky instead of Bollinger, bullying old folk and spraying racist graffiti on the local asian run shop. In the working-class these dregs sink to the bottom and fester like a cancer in our communities. Among the rich, through patronage and privilege, they rise to the top and are groomed for power.

Their bare faced hypocrisy is on a such an incredible scale that it would be almost impressive in its arrogance were these not the people who end up deciding our fate.

These are the future judges, officer corps, corporate directors and politicians of England. And England votes for them in its millions. - The REAL SDL



Oxford University launches inquiry after drunk Tory students 'sang song saluting Nazi killings'

One video said to show student singing 'Dashing through the Reich' to tune of Jingle Bells

By TOM KELLY AND ELEANOR HARDING
Last updated at 11:47 AM on 5th November 2011

Oxford University last night launched an investigation into claims that Tory students sang a ‘despicable’ song celebrating Nazi massacres during meetings.
Members of the university’s Conservative Association were alleged to have given renditions of the song that revels in the killing of Jews during ‘port and policy’ nights.

One video, filmed in the common room at Corpus Christi college, is said to show a student drunkenly chanting: ‘Dashing through the Reich’, before being silenced by another member.

Oxford University Conservative Association president James Lawson with a friend. They were not involved in the alleged racist singing

The song’s full version, to the tune of Jingle Bells, continues: ‘Dashing through the Reich / in a black Mercedes Benz / killing lots of kike / ra ta ta ta ta.’
The word ‘kike’ is a derogatory term for Jewish people.

One member of the Conservative Association, who declined to be named, told the Oxford Student newspaper: ‘Lots of people were singing it that night, and indeed on many other nights, and the general attitude is that that was OK.

‘The thing is, lots of members do find that song, and songs like that one, absolutely despicable, though little is done to stop it. I am very worried with the direction the society is going in at present.’

Pictures taken from ‘port and policy’ nights during the past year also showed members of the society rolling around drunk on the floor.

One was photographed pouring port into a friend’s mouth through a pith helmet.

Excess: A member drinks port poured through a pith helmet. Neither was involved in the Nazi singing

Another photo shows two members dressed as Margaret Thatcher next to a coal miner outfit bearing an offensive placard which reads: ‘I love shafting.’

Last night, Joe Cooke, a former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, told the Daily Mail he was resigning from it in protest about the ‘debauched’ behaviour of many of his fellow members.

The third year PPE student said: ‘It is disgusting and goes against everything the Conservative Party stands for. I am completely disillusioned.

'I came from a single-parent family and went to a state school and had to work for everything I have achieved.

‘But unfortunately the majority of members are rich former public schoolboys with a great sense of entitlement who are far more interested in drinking port than discussing policy.’

A former treasurer of the association recently wrote to members to complain about the ‘excessive and crass’ singing at meetings.

He wrote: ‘The dissonance is enough to inflict pain as short, spotty, still-pubescent boys struggle to fix their unsteady voices on any pitch at all.
‘This unbridled clamour is disturbing finalists who live near the Union, many of whom are sounder Conservatives than most, but who don’t feel the need to dress up in ridiculous clothes or pretend that we still have an empire.’

David Cameron and former Tory leaders Michael Howard and Iain Duncan Smith have all given talks to the association in recent years.

Its former presidents include Cabinet members William Hague and Jeremy Hunt.
The OUCA is affiliated with Conservative Future, the party’s youth wing, and regularly supports candidates in local elections.

During last year’s General Election, five former presidents stood for parliamentary seats.

The Nazi song allegation is just the latest controversy to hit the association in recent years.

Two years ago it was temporarily banned from using Oxford University in its title after members were urged to compete to see who could tell the most offensive racist joke.

Yesterday an Oxford University spokesman said: ‘The university proctors, who are responsible for discipline, have been made aware of the [Oxford Student] article and will be considering whether there are grounds for further investigation.
‘The university strongly condemns any form of racism or discrimination.’
James Lawson, the current president of the Conservative Association who took over after the alleged racist singing took place, said he had started an investigation into the allegations.

He said: ‘If it turns out this person is a member we will take immediate action to expel them from the association. Racism has no place in the association or our society.’

Additional reporting by James Rothwell


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057785/Oxford-Tory-song-salutes-Nazi-killings--Drunken-students-facing-inquiry.html#ixzz1cqjUZU4O