Is this an un-neccesary import fromthe US?

[Owlswing]

A protest has shut down traffic coming off the M4 into London Heathrow.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nationwide-shutdown-black-lives-matter-094944461.html

Yes - Black Lives Matter, but when was the last time someone of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity was shot dead by a British cop?

Why was this proyest considered to be needed in this country?

Do those on the forum consider that it and the disruption it caused was necessary? 

[L.A.]

They seem to have got the wrong country.

[Owlswing]

They seem to have got the wrong country.

Apparently they are caling for 'orchestrated potests' to shut down the country!

How to lose friends and antagonise people?

[Harrowby Hall]

Yes - Black Lives Matter, but when was the last time someone of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity was shot dead by a British cop?

Didn't I hear that these demonstrations were commemorations of the anniversary of the shooting dead of a man of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity by a British cop?

However, I do agree with your sentiment. In spite of the pockets of racial hatred and xenophobia that do exist in British society (and  - I hope - only briefly re-awakened by the Brexit vote) I do not feel that Britain is fractured by racial intolerance in the way that the USA is.

[Owlswing]

Didn't I hear that these demonstrations were commemorations of the anniversary of the shooting dead of a man of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity by a British cop?

However, I do agree with your sentiment. In spite of the pockets of racial hatred and xenophobia that do exist in British society (and  - I hope - only briefly re-awakened by the Brexit vote) I do not feel that Britain is fractured by racial intolerance in the way that the USA is.

It does, sometimes, seem to me that the worse that an idea emanating from the US is, regardless of what the idea is connected/related to, the quicker it is imported into the UK regardless of its relevance/irrelevance to the UK.

[L.A.]

The silly sods seem to have succeeded in provoking an EDL counter demonstration here in Nottingham - victims looking for an oppressor!

[Humph Warden Bennett]

This is just jumping on the bandwagon.

Bro.

[Jack Knave]

This is just jumping on the bandwagon.

Bro.

Yes, but blacks here are discriminated against as in the US - but in a less extreme way. But now we have more cops with guns perhaps we may see something else...

[Sebastian Toe]

Yes, but blacks here are discriminated against as in the US - but in a less extreme way. But now we have more cops with guns perhaps we may see something else...

...or perhaps not!

[Hope]

A lot of reports seem to suggest that Britain remains institutionally racist, be that related to the high proportion of stop and search incidents involving young black men, or poor educational acheivement rates by the same group.  Not sure why it seems to be predominantly the lads who suffer like this - as opposed to the young women.

[L.A.]

A lot of reports seem to suggest that Briin remains institutionally racist, be that related to the high proportion of top and search incidents involving young black men, or poor educational acheivement rates by the same group.  Not sure why it seems to be predominantly the lads who suffer like this - as opposed to the young women.

Who or What is Briin ?

[Hope]

Who or What is Briin ?

Sorry, that was meant to be 'Britain'.  Amended in original.

[L.A.]

Sorry, that was meant to be 'Britain'.  Amended in original.

That's a relief, I spent ages trying to work out what the acronym might be and google could only come-up with someone called Briin Bernstein.