Another year older, and I feel so fucking old.
Christmas, or the season of peace on earth, goodwill to all men, is here again. walking through London yo meet people wearing Santa hats and sparkly things and it feels nearly nice. In reality there is still the seething resentment to be had because you've got a better job/more money/a better wife/a nicer car than me.
I've been coming to London for over 30 years now, indeed I served my time as a resident of the Capital for some 5 years and in that time what has changed? Well, I'm in the minority now, with most Londoners being non-white (what does that even mean?) and Christianity on the run and heading for the heterosexual hills (no girls allowed(if the Church hates homosexuality, why won't they let women in?)) and battening down the hatches.
The fact that the term non-white has been used is in itself massively racist. Is there an alternative non-black/non-brown/non-yellow/non-off white, kinda creamy? This country has the genetic equivalent of a multi-fruit and veg smoothie, with most European races in there along with some fringe elements of those Asian types who made it into the shopping malls of Europe. So Britain has been non-indiginous for a long time, but we seem to think that being brown/black/other colours are also available still marks one out as a possible outsider. But I know some brown/black people who have been here a lot longer than some of the new white invaders; Polish, Slovak,Other Whites. 2nd and 3rd generation Jamaicans, Africans, Indians and so on must be feeliing a bit confused, surely.
So far I've only seen Daily Fail type headlines warning us of the impending Middle-European invasion but nothing on-going. I suppose even middle-class white folk need to use plumbers sometimes.

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