i think people have lost the plot with the word "racist."

I am not racist. Racist means you believe one race is superior over another.

I find no races superior over others. I love other cultures, and have many black and asian friends. The majority are great people. for example, our cities Sikh community laid a wreath at the Rememberence Day Service.

i dont like the way that racism has gone full circle, and now whites are being discriminated against as "positive discrimination." No discrimination is positive.
for example, it was proposed that black police should automatically enter at Seargent level, and job application forms need to know your ethnic background. If myself and one of my asian friends applied to join the police/ fire-service it is more likely that my friend would get the job. this i know is the truth, as one of friends used to do the interviews for the police.

Why cant the police force just be the police force assosiation. Why do we have to have, black police assosiation, ethinc police assosiation, that i think just leads to more seperation between different groups. Cant we all just be british, and get along. Not constantly have to learn about respecting other cultures at school or college. It only annoys asian children, and highlights again, the differences.
Why cant a job interview just not mention colour or ethnic background, and just recruit on a persons merits, not to reflect society.

why arent other cultures forced to respect our values and heritage. For example, Muslim Awareness Week, we have to listen to at school. The Muslim Council sponsored festival is aimed at "increasing community respect and appreciation of Muslims."
Read that again. This is the summary of the purpose of the Awareness festival. The arrogance of that statement is overwhelming! The Awareness Week is clearly not designed to encourage Muslims to appreciate the value of the Christian and secular aspects of British and European society. It is not about encouraging Muslims to respect the traditions and values of the long – established folk communities of the British Isles from the island of Lewis to the Cornish village of Listowel. It is not about tolerance of non-Islamic faiths. It is all about "increasing community respect and appreciation of Muslims".

all this multicultural learning is, in my oppinion, creating the problems, and making people angry. We study racism most weeks in school, in mot subjects. it is allways a one way street. We get told about Stephen Lawrence, often, and racism even gets into maths and sciences.
Just forget the Citizenship classes at school. (they arent there to teach us how to be upstanding good citizens, with good morals and pride) and let us get along as British, whatever colour we happen to be.

James Bradburn