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Thread #59063 Message #940783
Posted By: Geoff the Duck
26-Apr-03 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: St George's Day
Subject: RE: St George's Day
Sorefingers - (You may be trolling - you may be misguided, but you are definitely talking out of your arse!). As a Bradfordian born and bred, I resent your insinuation that there is anything wrong with the racial mix of MY HOME TOWN. It is a great city (and before that a great town) which has opened its arms to migrants of Any and All nations. Amongst others, Bradford has been settled in by Irish who built the nation's roads, Germans who traded in the Wool industry, refugees from the Second World War including Italians, Ukranians, Polish, Latvians and Byelorussians.
In the post-war periods people came from India and the West Indies to do the crap jobs which nobody else wanted to do. They didn't come to steal "White Mens' jobs" - White men wouldn't dirty their hands with the jobs immigrants tackled.
Bradford is also full of people who have arrived from other parts of the Britain and have stopped because it is such a wealth of culture. It sometimes seems as if half the population of the North East now live in Bradford. Musically you can hear almost any genre that exists. In pubs you can head bands playing jazz, R&B, heavy rock, rock & roll, blues, folk, country, pop, bhangra, you name it....
Many is the time when I have been in other parts of the country and bemoaned the fact that ALL eating establishments have closed before the pubs have properly chucked out, when there would still have been time to drive home to Bradford in time to order a sit down curry at 4 in the morning.
Wearing a mini-skirt a crime - What a load of tripe. On the streets of Bradford you will see a more diverse assortment than most other places.
Most of the population of Bradford ARE NOT RACISTS - Let's face it most of the population of the UK are descended from immigrants (including the Romans and Vikings).
GtD.