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 Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik (Re: Mohamed Omer)
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I found the article informative but not at all surprising. People will always find some characteristic in others to place them apart. This can be lighthearted mockery which all parties enjoy, or it can turn into murderous lunacy - and either can happen anywhere. Surely this can't be news to anyone?
On the light-hearted side I remember a line in Frank McCourt's 'Angela's Ashes' in which some aged aunts talk disparagingly about an in-law 'who was from Galway and had the look of a Spaniard.' This made me laugh as it reminded me of the sort of thing I used to hear from my Irish relatives as a child. My own Dad has some, shall we say unusual, views about Dubliners
An Asian man I know makes frequent jokes about his brother being a Bangladeshi interloper due to his skin tone. I don't know the significance of this within the family but it seems to go down well in his household
Examples of how this turns to murderousness are legion. But the main example I can recall within the Arab world was a piece I saw in the Sunday Times about three/four years ago when the Iraqi insurgency was beginning in earnest. A leading Sunni insurgent was interviewed saying that his group specifically targeted black US soldiers and even sometimes abandoned operations if there were too few black soldiers in the unit they were due to attack. He added (the quote has stuck with me): "It is an especial humiliation for us to be occupied by negroes."
We're stuck with this as a planet
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| The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:19 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:28 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:32 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:47 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:07 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:21 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:30 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:44 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:49 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 09:02 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 03:59 AM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 02:12 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 02:18 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-08-08, 06:19 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-08-08, 06:37 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Deng | 03-05-08, 08:40 PM |
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