Re: Race, and class. you lot don't half talk a load of shit

Date: 26th April '01

Name: Sacha Distel

Country: Paris , France

To D. Hilliard
I couldn't have put it better myself and another thing I think comrades ought to
remember as well is there is a code you see nowadays in job application forms and in particular in job application forms from outfits that shout LOUDEST from the rooftops about their "committment" to "equal" opportunities, and that is a BALD statement that they WILL give preference to candidates who have degrees when going for posts where the calibre of the persons applying are equally matched , these outfits , usually voluntary sector or social services departments see NOTHING incongrous in this and how all it does is guarantee that the poorest and most deprived in society will never be empowered and can never hope to be employed as anything other than a toilet attendant in their grusomely named "equal" ops paradises.
I have worked for one of these organisations as a kitchen porter in a hostel looking after people with alcohol and mental health related problems and the division of labour is STARK AND IN YOUR FACE , graduates are nearly always favoured for these relatively well paid (compared to a kitchen porter) jobs when there is no sane reason why it should only be that a graduate that is the only one who could do the job , look in the Guardian on Wednesdays and you will see that these jobs usually start at around the 16,500 mark which is a damn site better than the 4.20ph you get paid (even now) as a KP.
Another thing about these outfits is that they usually tend to be packed out with token blacks , gays , wimmin , Asians etc who then go on to form there own little cabals to keep others out and pack them with their own kind and they usually tend to set up a "Black workers group" or a "Wimmins group" or a "Gays group" or even a "Transgendered workers group" in the case of one weird "Housing charity" I had the misfortune to be sent to by the agency I worked for at the time.
Like Tweety said in his posting the enmity that exists between SOME Asians and Blacks is fierce and another thing has anyone noticed how SOME (obviously not all) Asians seem to be obsessed with their skin tone and how light or dark other people in their community may or may not be , I find that quite telling in the attitude that some racist Asians have towards African and West Indian people. Any one else agree?

Sacha Distel

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