[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Terry

I can guarantee that you people of Accy don't even give the time of day to your ethnics. Not much good you saying There OK. Invite them into your homes for christ sakes.

Good grief what a racist statement! I'm quite shocked 'give time of day to your ethnics' My neighbours are my neighbours, my friends are my friends. They come in all colours shapes and sizes. I don't have 'my ethnics'. The very idea of inviting someone into my home because of their ethnicity is rather patronising and abhorrent to me. I greet all my neighbours with the same friendly smile and people who are invited into my home are invited in because they are welcome as their individual selves, not because they represent any particular ethnic group.

We were in Manchester this afternoon and walking down the shopping street and in the Arndale centre we passed many people of many different races and nationalities. I didn't hear any racial abuse being directed towards anyone. There was one guy shouting abuse at something invisible which he was kicking in the middle of the road but apart from him everyone else was happily going about their business.