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Thread #92534   Message #1774567
Posted By: GUEST,Colin - Poyntzpass
03-Jul-06 - 06:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Racist Capital of Europe
Subject: RE: BS: Racist Capital of Europe
Can I draw one thing to your attention. While all racism is disgusting, you are blaming it all on Loyalist paramilitaries. Several weeks ago a foreign cricket team were attacked and chased by residents of the Short Strand (Republican ghetto). Also several chinese visitors were not only attacked in Short Strand but then chased towards the Markets where they were attacked again. They were merely taking photographs of murals. I suppose Republicans thought they were British agents, as those ghettos are so well infiltrated anyway...LOL. The racism is not one sided. In Garvaghy Road (Portadown) the Polish, Latvian and Portuguese workers in Moy Park were intimidated in their dozens so that they went to live on the Tandragee Road....a notable Protestant area...as they felt safe there. If these foreign guests and migrants feel so intimidated by Loyalists, why did the local Loyalist bar open its doors to them and actually allow them to open up a bar/restaurant for the foreigners alone. There are cases of racism on both sides in NI...its just the media only report from areas that they have access to (where they feel safe), which so happens to be Loyalist areas. The media do not just dander onto the Falls Road to take pictures and write stories about racism. WISE UP. There are dozens of cases of racism on both side here...and it is all deplorable.