(I should start off by mentioning my boyfriend is from England and this is all related to England)
"It's not racist to call them Pakis because they call us Honkys'
I love my boyfriend but I don't get how someone can be so blind to their own racism. It's gotten to a point where I just get pissed off and yell at him which is so unproductive, but when I used to point it out he would just say it wasn't racist.
"I'm not racist, I just..."yeah there's another one. "I just think that they should go back to their countries. I just think that we should keep them from moving into our country." Who are these people? Is he talking about the English born people who have Indian roots? Is he talking about the people who moved into the country legally because they have the right to because of the EU? The people who most likely only moved there because they think they can make enough money to send home and help out their families in their respective countries that would otherwise be freezing and/or starving.
I ask him what he would do if he were in their situation. What if he lived in a country that did not provide for it's own people, his family was starving and suffering and there was a country he had the legal right to live and work in that paid enough money for him to help out his family? He doesn't answer this. He simply said they have no right. The argument stops there because he flat out refuses to even look at something from their point of view. How frustrating is this for me? I find it so annoying to have to hear this racist bullshit over and over again and to be honest, if we didn't have a child together this would be enough to make me reconsider our relationship. As we do have a child together, I am trying to find ways to speak to him that he will get where I'm coming from at least. Ugh.
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