http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/racism-on-big-brother\/<\/a>) It says it all but I still feel like adding my proverbial tuppenorth.<\/p>\nI have actually\u00c2\u00a0watched one of these programmes. It does indeed reek of casual mindless racism. I\u00c2\u00a0 also watched a very old Celebrity Big Brother series (both in someone else’s house, I insist on adding, for the salke of my self-respect) in which\u00c2\u00a0 Chris Eubank, a black\u00c2\u00a0boxer, \u00c2\u00a0was subjected to the same sort of behaviour, from people who were at least less blatantly moronic as these appalling women, no apparent outcry. Chris eubank was the first\u00c2\u00a0person ever to \u00c2\u00a0to be evicted from CBB.<\/p>\n
Ironically, in both cases the contestants who were subjected to this racially based\u00c2\u00a0exclusion behaved with an almost incredible degree of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0forbearance. Chris Eubank seemed the only person in his house with any idea of a separation between a stage persona and a therapy session. He was calm and witty at all times. He\u00c2\u00a0wore silly outfits as a public-pleasing act. It didn’t work. He was obviously too sane for the house and must have struck a nerve with the largely moronic sector of the public who actually spend money on voting for these things.<\/p>\n
These bitchy “celeb” women are not just morons. They were\u00c2\u00a0clearly threatened by a woman who\u00c2\u00a0is naturally beautiful,\u00c2\u00a0 seems normally intelligent. and appears to have done something (acting) to become a “celeb.”\u00c2\u00a0 The attackers have no claim on being known other than\u00c2\u00a0to have \u00c2\u00a0copped off with a footballer to win a beauty contest\u00c2\u00a0or to have exhibit ed their awe-inspiring stupidity on national television.<\/p>\n
However, their attitudes are not unique. Jade Goody’s boyfriend was\u00c2\u00a0 casually racist enough for a dozen wags in the bit that i had the misfortune to watch.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t even have the excuse of being a comically\u00c2\u00a0outclassed female.<\/p>\n
I take issue with\u00c2\u00a0any approach that involves\u00c2\u00a0pretending that this casual racism is unique to these people and\u00c2\u00a0that hiding it will make it go away.\u00c2\u00a0If anything, this trash\u00c2\u00a0tv has done a service by showing the truly repulsive inature of British racism, which is unfortunately not confined to the people\u00c2\u00a0at the back of the queue when the\u00c2\u00a0mental and spititual gifts were being given out.<\/p>\n
The very media that are now pillorying\u00c2\u00a0 a few backward\u00c2\u00a0 girls for giving the game away are the ones that are creating a climate of division. A trawl through the BBC’s own blog site about a woman wearing a burkha left me stunned with shock at the casually racist content of almost all the\u00c2\u00a0posts.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clearly our anti-racism strategies aren’t working.\u00c2\u00a0With apologies for pontificating, I’ll take this up in the next blog.<\/p>\n