Mzungu

Who sets the limits? The pope?? It shows how retarded religion is...

Superstition is retarded.

Do you?

...or these culture-enrichers are for 'other people'?

Serious question? I will take it at face value. My heritage made a serious racist growing up. Good old British influence. I had to face this when I worked with Aboriginal people in Australia, muslims in Afghanistan, Indonesia and Malaysia and Asian people. I had the benefit of training in these issues. There are cultures that make me uncomfortable still. I try to deal with that. What I object to though is the way entire groups are tarred or assumed to be a certain way because of the actions of a few or because of the fears of a few.

In the mid 80's I worked as a civil servant in Australia. I organised a visit by a person with HIV to a school for a talk and discussion. It was at the height of the hysteria. Kids with HIV were being denied entry to schools. People were on the streets screaming and shouting. I was roundly attacked by many. A lot of them objecting because they assumed the guy was gay and demanding to know how he got it.

I have come to embrace diversity. It wasn't easy. I am certainly not at the point of full self actualisation. Maybe never will be. I try to deal with my impure thoughts rationally and maturely.

Almost experienced enough to get a job in Detroit slums...

What's racist is that if a black person said it, it would be perfectly fine.

Racism: White South-African (or Seth Efkin) student settled in America applies for an African American award, gets expelled.

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http://www.discriminations.us/2009/05/nj-med-student-expelled-for-calling-himself-%E2%80%9Cwhite-african-american%E2%80%9D/

Insulting to African-American students (blacks) apparently, even though they've never been to Africa?, so why not call it an award for negrito students or black students? oh no, that would be racist.

PC BS nonsense.

In respect of your link, the white guy who described himself as a "white African American" lost his lawsuit in federal court. So he filed another and lost that one too, also in U.S. District Court. This argument doesn't have a leg to stand on. The major reason is that mainstream America rejects it too - only the fringe people and politicians throw up the pc argument in instances such as these.

Which is why your hero in the photo above, the young Trevor Reichards is a loser too.

Richards is not an African American for a number of reasons. One is that when he (with his parents) immigrated into the United States his passport said he was a national of South Africa, which is a country not a continent. Because your guy in the photo is white, he is most likely in one way or another a descendant of the former colonial occupiers from Netherlands.

What continent is Seth Efka, sorry, South Africa on?

He was born in Africa.

He became American.

He is African America. To deny him this based on his race is racist.

Plain and simple.

No doubt then in apartheid era South Africa his parents would not have been using the toilets, parks and beaches reserved for 'Europeans'.

Not so long ago similar rules were in certain US States. Unless we are to conveniently overlook and forget that?

What's racist is that if a black person said it, it would be perfectly fine.

Racism: White South-African (or Seth Efkin) student settled in America applies for an African American award, gets expelled.

http://www.discriminations.us/2009/05/nj-med-student-expelled-for-calling-himself-%E2%80%9Cwhite-african-american%E2%80%9D/

Insulting to African-American students (blacks) apparently, even though they've never been to Africa?, so why not call it an award for negrito students or black students? oh no, that would be racist.

PC BS nonsense.

In respect of your link, the white guy who described himself as a "white African American" lost his lawsuit in federal court. So he filed another and lost that one too, also in U.S. District Court. This argument doesn't have a leg to stand on. The major reason is that mainstream America rejects it too - only the fringe people and politicians throw up the pc argument in instances such as these.

Which is why your hero in the photo above, the young Trevor Reichards is a loser too.

Richards is not an African American for a number of reasons. One is that when he (with his parents) immigrated into the United States his passport said he was a national of South Africa, which is a country not a continent. Because your guy in the photo is white, he is most likely in one way or another a descendant of the former colonial occupiers from Netherlands.

My ancestry is exclusively European but I'm not a European American because my ancestors immigrated into the United States with their national passport in hand. African Americans are descendants of enslaved people brought here against their will. They did not arrive with a passport which could have identified them by nationality.

Mainstream American society has for 40 years used the broad description of a continent, Africa, rather than the specific description of a country such as SA, because American slave owners purposefully broke up ethnic groups and families and made their marriage illegal.

Given that it was also illegal in mainly U.S. southern states to teach an enslaved person to read and write, it became impossible for African Americans to pass down a literate history from their national homeland. That was 300 to 150 years ago so many national borders in Africa have anyway changed, often radically.

In the United States it is often acceptable for people to be aggressive, however, being aggessively offensive will bring its direct consequences which a precocious aggressor such as your Richards guy needs to realize, recognize, accept. When a person engages in civil disobedience, the person needs to accept time in jail if it comes down to that. So your hero Richards needs to accept his (two-day) suspension (which anyway occurred in 2004 so this issue has long since been settled).

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To treat people with the common respect practiced by mainstream America means one cannot hide behind the bogus and often equally offensive phrase of 'political correctness.' The use of the term political correctness is a pretext and a ruse to be aggressively offensive so those who use it need to accept being dismissed by American society in general because of their conscious and deliberate, willful transgressions.

And how would a guy with Papua New Guinea call himself? African American PNGnian? His skin colour is more black than Williams.

And his ancestors do not come from Africa. Well, unless you count 2.3 million years old Lucy. But then we ALL came from Africa.

American political correctness expressions and policies have been made by mildly retarded politicians.

In fact, before they take any public office, they should be sent to England to learn the language first.

It's a racial slur. Punishment is well-deserved.

What is racist in Williams brothers sentence?

Malaysia has cheaper rents. Or rather KL has cheaper rents than BKK

This is because there is less foreigners staying long term there. Compare the queues at Immigration between these two countries.

Don't know how long you have to wait at KL but BKK immigration is VERY short

Malaysia has cheaper rents. Or rather KL has cheaper rents than BKK

She did more than Obama. What did he do to receive one after 3 months in the office? Some of the previous winners, I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. Such a politicized farce.

Thai bank policy makers are retarded. They will not allow me to have ATM debit card that is linked to my Thai bank account and I couldn't withdraw more than I actually have on my account. Guess they might somehow think I would be able to withdraw more and escape overseas? But they were happy to give me full credit card and 500,000 baht credit limit. Thai bank logic at its best.

At the end of the day, these guys are toast. The government will not allow themselves to get embarrassed in front of the world media. It just can't happen. The only chance they have is if they can get a private body to redo the tests after sentencing, with co-operation from the British government to get access to the victims DNA. At least they can then publish the results so the world knows the gov and police fabricated everything. Maybe then the world human rights and a few others will pull their finger out.

In a way, yes. It will be done Thai way irrespective how much we jump up and down or who is monitoring.

From one of the old prison stories I read, some rich and powerful guy in town killed somebody. Someone else was framed and jailed. That someone happens to be semi paralyzed and couldn't lift a spoon let alone a heavy hand gun. He was never at crime scene and never left his house.

Was he bitter about that? No. He felt he was a burden to his family that he couldn't contribute and payout was his share to the family. Apparently he was even treated better in prison than at home.

If two Myanmar guys are lucky, they might be released through back door and sent quietly back to home town and told never to return and keep the mouth shut. Possibly with some pocket money. Possibly contributed by some island family... If they are lucky.

Most likely we will never know the final outcome. It will be done Thai way.

No matter how good YOU think your Thai is and how you think you can do stand-up in Thai, making a joke about local louts in their own lingo in THEIR house...

I remember telling an Aggie joke at a bar in College Station and I had only been living in Texas for 12 years.

See what I am saying?

I went home to my own house but they know im live there. it was two weeks ago & i am not afraid of any man but a gang is a lot. In my country we put put stick in they bottom but my family is at home

As you said your Thai is average but I see your English is sooooo much better

If I was a betting man, I would put 20 baht on Sean and his drinking Thai friends. Possibly one with scratches on his neck and hands days after he arrived back in Bangkok school.

I would rather be told what Thailand has ever done for anybody on this planet.

it has created the largest playground for aging gentlements....

And that is the end of the list...

Wrong group to socialize with. His fault.

Hope Sean McAnna wasn't on the bank of the river playing his guitar?

I may be wrong but I am assuming you are a foreigner with a Thai stepdaughter? They are probably not looking at "her" per se, but at the two of you together. Perhaps they think she is your girlfriend their comments are directed more at the disparity in your ages than her physical appearance. The reason I say this is because I recently had two attractive teenage girls in my charge while their parents and my wife attended classes in Bangkok. We all had traveled together for the weekend and I volunteered to take them sightseeing while we waited for the classes to finish. Everywhere we went it seems that people stared at us and made rude comments. I asked the girls about it as they could both speak passable English. They said, "Oh don't pay any attention to them. They think we're your girlfriends." After that I walked at a distance from them far enough away to keep an eye out for them but generally not close enough to look like we were together.

I am Scottish and my kids are half Thai half Scottish.

They are not looking at me but at her. She is only 12!

Wear a kilt and they will be looking at you too

Andrew Drummond Facebook page has new post relating to the alleged key witness. Maybe it is time for Britain to employ a new Ambassador.

To be absolutely honest, Britain CANNOT and WILL NOT get involved in a matter of Thai state affairs. This is right and proper. I want the truth to come out as well. But Britain is not the avenue. The most the foreign office will do (in public) is express concern at the handling of the case. And they did exactly this in their comments yesterday in the Daily Telegraph.

(While im on the subject of things that are right and proper. It is also right and proper that the Thai Government (or any government) should not be able to arbitrarily demand a DNA swab in some kind of trawling expedition. I would refuse them as well. And i am thankful i can do that. People should not be calling for this to be reneged upon. It undermines key civil protections.

Also, the British government does not need to intervene in this anyway, because the British government has one of the most ruthless, amoral real-politik machines in the world: the British tabloid press).

The reason this case has any momentum at all is because the THAI people are pressing it. Not because expats on a message board are. But because Thai people are questioning the official story. And that is exactly how it should be for an issue that is clearly a sovereign Thai issue. It is a Thai story about Thai internal affairs, domestic migrant relations and of course, 'corruption'. And this is why the Foreign Office CANNOT and SHOULD NOT get involved. This is not a colony. These are not our subjects. Any heavy-handed intervention in this instance would do more to harm this fragile situation than help it. It would distract attention away from where it currently needs to be.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html

This has perhaps been mentioned before but here goes anyway... See this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777726/Myanmar-worker-admits-British-murders-Thailand-police.html

Now, they have a CCTV cap of the three suspects on a bike on the night of the murder. They also show the well-known 'running man' CCTV video, also taken that night. In the first cap, two of the men are wearing long pants and the middle man is wearing dark/black shorts. The 'running man' is wearing light coloured shorts. Yet these are supposed to be the same suspects on the same night. Huh???

Yes, but isn't it funny that none of these fellows was carrying a guitar? Where is that damn guitar?

They borrowed Sean's guitar later?

Weird how he's wearing the same T-shirt when he's being arrested that he was wearing on the night of the murders. No blood on it? He didn't think to throw it away? Very odd.

How come none of the guys on the bike have blonde hair?

because theres no such thing as a blonde burmise

Apparently one of them had blond dyed hair. Stay with the news...

They are trying to shift it to migrant workers now and the explanation because they were buying something from a store.

Watch this space we are going to hear all the BS in the world.

Well, what if the murderers were migrant workers? Should they not investigate migrant workers because some foreigners have knee-jerk reactions claiming that the police want to frame them?

They've already investigated some Thais and foreigners too.

Thais have been convicted many times in the past of killing foreigners, so it is illogical to think they will not convict a Thai person if he (or they) are guilty.

They should check everywhere the leads take them.

Fair enough. But with DNA evidence taken from the insides of the victim they should be fairly definite about those they are charging.

Only yesterday they said they were going to arrest someone in three days time. What kind of "investigation" is this?

Well, they realized that there were too many failed promises and really tried to make this one up...

Disgusted ….

Innocent men executed while killers protected ?

It seems it is going that way.