I have just bought a Eid Gift Box of Asian sweets for some Muslim friends and then tried to buy an Eid card for them.
I went in nine shops and asked. I was either ignored, grunted at or abused by black clad " assistants. In the final
shop the "assistant " was shooing me out of the shop with the back of her hand.!!! A Pakistani customer in Western
dress intervened and kept saying sorry for my treatment, told me of a shop 300 yards away that sold them and as I
left she was laying into them, in a language they DID understand, about my treatment. I was trying to buy a card that
was unlikely to be for a White neighbor, trying to spend some money in their shops, and trying to practice Integration.!!
I doubt that any of these Pakistani women were members of the BNP but they may just as well be. Integration.? Inclusion.?
My Arse. Racism is alive and well in Lozell's, Birmingham, UK, 2017.