Is this racist?

Pkiernan

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

Jesus Wept

It's 5.02am. I don't care.

TEMPLAR KNIGHT

Sure everything's racist these days!!

bgrizzley

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

was he white Nigerian or black Nigerian?

Doc

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

No its not racist.

face1990

Andy Carroll wrote: »

It's 5.02am. I don't care.

It's like OP woke you up to ask you!

Canis Lupus

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

Not racist and hardly worthy of a thread or even wondering whether it is racist or not in the first place.

Fart

Omg, he called them "black people".

Hell yeah it's racist.

If I moved into a black neighbourhood but with white neighbours, Id be slammed for saying "it will be nice to live next to white people".

Fart

Deleted User wrote: »

If I moved into a black neighbourhood but with white neighbours, Id be slammed for saying "it will be nice to live next to white people".

Racist!

bearhugs

I completely agree with the above, it's not that he used the term black people it's the sentiment he expressed. And yes, if it was the other way around it would definitely be seen as racist.

scudzilla

Deleted User wrote: »

If I moved into a black neighbourhood but with white neighbours, Id be slammed for saying "it will be nice to live next to white people".

Spot on, welcome to 21st century Europe :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Doc

Deleted User wrote: »

If I moved into a black neighbourhood but with white neighbours, Id be slammed for saying "it will be nice to live next to white people".

Only by PC idiots. If you are in a minority it is nice to have other people of the same minority around you because you don't feel so much like the odd one out. There is nothing racist about that.

Pkiernan

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Not racist and hardly worthy of a thread or even wondering whether it is racist or not in the first place.

Oh, sorry dude, can you please go ahead and delete my thread then.

Nump-T

Tombi!

No. Racisim ususally expresses the belief that your race is superior (or another race is inferior).

Of course if he thinks blacks are better than whatever race he's living next to currently, yes, he's a racist and should be flogged.

Canis Lupus

Pkiernan wrote: »

Oh, sorry dude, can you please go ahead and delete my thread then.

Nump-T

If only I could.

AngryHippie

It depends if he was of the opinion that living beside white people would not be nice.
A nicely open-ended passive-aggressive statement really.
Implying that living beside white people is something other than nice, without actually saying that he finds white people prejudiced and intolerant. Masterful language IMO.

Racist, Probably.
Offensive, Definitely not.

Meant to cause offense....who knows ?

viztopia

There goes the neighborhood!

AngryHippie

Whats that supposed to mean ?

Are you suggesting that because there are Black people in the neighborhood that there is something wrong with it?

JustAThought

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Pkiernan wrote: »

Oh, sorry dude, can you please go ahead and delete my thread then.

Nump-T

If only I could.

O that's a bit mean! The other poster was right ; if a White person expressed a preference to living next door to whites being preferable there would be cries of outrage & accusations of being racist. It's such an overused & misused accusation these days that it has become totally devalued.

No wonder the world is in chaos!

Canis Lupus

AngryHippie wrote: »

Whats that supposed to mean ?

Are you suggesting that because there are Black people in the neighborhood that there is something wrong with it?

Yup because crime rate will rocket and there will be empty KFC buckets strewn about the streets.

Or not :P

You need to turn your sarcasm detector up a bit is all

Boskowski

I wonder where you're going with this. Is it just curiosity or are you looking for confirmation whether black people can be racist too?
If it's the latter then I can assure you racism is not confined to Caucasian whites.

faral

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Yup because crime rate will rocket and there will be empty KFC buckets strewn about the streets.

Or not :P

You need to turn your sarcasm detector up a bit is all

plus do not forget that nissan cars will be all around:D

Tombi!

AngryHippie wrote: »

Whats that supposed to mean ?

Are you suggesting that because there are Black people in the neighborhood that there is something wrong with it?

Well yeah... haven't you seen what happens when blacks move in?

It's like a fúcking crime spree!

All whites do is just attack people and inject heroin into themselves, meanwhile they shop for the latest nike airmax and trackies.

This was sarcasm.

RaRaRasputin

It was definitely a stupid thing to say, not sure if it even was supposed to be racist in any way.
I'd have understood a bit had the tenant express his happiness about living next door to other fellow country men, but with his comment he reduced it simply to skin colour. It was a stupid thing to say, but I think most people can understand it to a certain extend: Black people are regarded as suspicious and "dole robbers" by many people in richer European countries. If I was met with attitudes like that a lot I'd be more than happy to live next to others who can understand/ might experience something similar.

Canis Lupus

JustAThought wrote: »

O that's a bit mean! The other poster was right ; if a White person expressed a preference to living next door to whites being preferable there would be cries of outrage & accusations of being racist. It's such an overused & misused accusation these days that it has become totally devalued.

No wonder the world is in chaos!

(he called me a name first... which is technically against the charter)

As for your post, I don't agree although it's context based. It's likely you've never been in a situation where you're the minority. I travelled extensively in North and West Africa and call me racist if you like but it was damn pleasant whenever I met a fellow white person. It was so nice, if just for a little while to not be the only odd one out.

MadsL

Is it cus I is black?

viztopia

AngryHippie wrote: »

Whats that supposed to mean ?

Are you suggesting that because there are Black people in the neighborhood that there is something wrong with it?

No. That's a line from an ice t song. But now that you mention it, its a well known fact that property prices drop for houses in estates with a large number of blacks in it.

I can't understand all this bull**** pc crap. Some one says something about blacks and their racist. A black says something about whites and nobody pays attention. Daly Thompson is a perfect example. If some Irish athlete had said a similar remark about a black person there would be uproar.

SocSocPol

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

Racist, I dont know, but as a Thread it smells very badly of Troll

Jester252

Nope. It was just a comment about the area their were moving into.

Tipsy McSwagger

Hey, where the white women at?

up for anything

Shame on you all. Not one person has gone into an angry 'non-racist' rant about Nigerians.

If he'd said that it would be nice to live next to people from home there'd be no thread.

It's natural that people flock together like birds of a feather especially when they don't feel so welcome. There was Kilburn once upon a time. Eventually they fan out and integrate though if someone 'worse' comes along. Otherwise they stay ghetto-ised.

jurahnimoh

Shouldn't it be regarded as racist if people are also referred to as white people?

Almaviva

Of course its not racist. He is black.
Only white people can be racist.

up for anything

Almaviva wrote: »

Only white people can be racist.

And newly embittered.

Pherekydes

viztopia wrote: »

Daly Thompson is a perfect example. If some Irish athlete had said a similar remark about a black person there would be uproar.

Daley Thompson said nothing about white people. Why do people keep saying he did? It's getting tiresome at this stage.

sh1tstirrer

I was watching the high chaparral last night. It was the episode with the buffalo soldiers they were singing eeny-meeny-miney-moe we finally caught Geronimo. When I was in school we learned that but it wasn't Geronimo we were catching. I suppose if you said what we used to say back then today you could end up in jail.

viztopia

Pherekydes wrote: »

viztopia wrote: »

Daly Thompson is a perfect example. If some Irish athlete had said a similar remark about a black person there would be uproar.

Daley Thompson said nothing about white people. Why do people keep saying he did? It's getting tiresome at this stage.

Who said he did? You should feel a little.less tiresome now.

Bad Panda

I don't want black neighbours.

I'm assuming the guy in the OP would have no problem with this statement. :rolleyes:

biko

Perhaps, but not a big deal. He probably just meant it will nice to be able to yap about Nigeria over the garden fence.

BBDBB

Nigerians, a great bunch of lads

Canis Lupus

viztopia wrote: »

Who said he did? You should feel a little.less tiresome now.

But... you said he did or rather inferred it strongly.

Plazaman

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Not racist and hardly worthy of a thread or even wondering whether it is racist or not in the first place.

:eek: Not allowing people to put up a thread about Racism.

*points finger

Racist!

rubadub

biko wrote: »

Perhaps, but not a big deal. He probably just meant it will nice to be able to yap about Nigeria over the garden fence.

+1, the OP would have to give his definition of racism first. Most people view it as a negative term. I just view it as being prejudiced, and do not think being prejudiced is automatically/necessarily a bad thing, it is often a sensible reasonable thing. Like prejudging that a big angry snarling dog might be dangerous, due to past experience & knowledge.

If my father heard an older couple were moving in next door he might be happy to have somebody to relate to more, and you might describe him as ageist. Prejudging that he might get on better with a 70 year old couple than a gang of students.

Or if my sister worked in an office full of 20 men and heard a woman was coming in you could call her sexist if she was happy to hear it.

B.A._Baracus

.... I honestly think there are more people who look for racism than actual racists in this world. :rolleyes:

and the mental thing is, its white people LOOKING for whats racist.

OldNotWIse

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

I was watching the high chaparral last night. It was the episode with the buffalo soldiers they were singing eeny-meeny-miney-moe we finally caught Geronimo. When I was in school we learned that but it wasn't Geronimo we were catching. I suppose if you said what we used to say back then today you could end up in jail.

I remember when they changed it to "catch a tigger" by his toe

CruelCoin

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

Nope.

My family is dutch. If i found a nice neighbourhood with a few dutch families in it, i'd have it down as a plus.
Nothing wrong with settling into an area you're more comfortable with.

Nodin

Pkiernan wrote: »

Friend is renting his house.

Houses to the left and right are rented to people originally from Nigeria.

Prospective tenant (also from Nigeria) is happy because "it will be nice to live next door to black people".

I'll be including this in my next edition of "Believable Stories"

AnonoBoy

If you moved to Nigeria and found out that the people renting next door to you were Irish I'd be you'd be furious though, wouldn't you?

"I want to be special and different! I don't want any other Paddy crackers here ruining my specialness!"

cocoshovel

Eat da poopoo!

Oranage2

Black people are so racist - someone should educate them that the correct term is 'African American'.