[youpassbutter]

> North America's attitude towards people of colour, absolutely disgusts me. I simply do not understand why that a country that was founded on on the principles of freedom continues to act this way.

North america isn't a country. And the US wasn't founded on principles of freedom. Slavery existed back then ( slavery brought to the colonies by the british ).

> Yeah, the UK (my homeland) has it's problems, but in the main, racial in-equality is not one of it's major ones

Where minority soccer players get bananas thrown at them. Where masses of white children are raped and police do nothing because of fears of racism. Where a half black woman is paraded around by the british press as some lapdog of your "prince".

No country is perfect so lets stop with the finger wagging. Has the UK ever elected a black leader? Go read about or watch black people's/minorities' recent experiences in europe. They've been spat at, had racial epithets thrown their way, been discriminated against, etc.

[toasterlovin]

So much this. There is a certain kind of European that loves to sneer down their nose at Americans, but show me the European country that has elected a black leader.

[ddrdrck_]

You don't know who is London's city mayor, isn't it ? Well I grant you he's not black.

Racism is certainly an issue in Europe, but at least our cops do not gunshot black people for any reason.

[verylittlemeat]

The US had a black president for 8 years so I guess America solved racism. /s

[toasterlovin]

I think the point was not that America has solved racism, but that it is a common refrain of some Europeans to point to America's race problems as somehow indicative of the backwardness of Americans, while they smugly pat themselves on the back for being the progressive ideal of tolerance. But European countries have never had the kind of racial divisions that the US has. Until roughly 50 years ago, there was basically no significant non-white population in Europe. The US has had a significant black population for 400 years. And we now have a huge brown population as well. And now that Europe has acquired a significant non-white population, lo and behold, you see a lot of the same racial issues that the US faces.