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Are the UAF institionally racist?

Rachel. | 04.10.2006 16:28

Why are the UAF igonoring the Kriss Donald case?

Kriss Donald was killed in a terrible racist attack, Kriss was white his attackers were not.
If Kriss had been non white and his attackers white, would the UAF have been so silent as they are now over the case? Of course they would not.
It's seem this case is being ignored by the UAF and other anti racist groups because the victim is white.
Therefore the UAF are institionally racist.

Rachel.

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Stop repeating yourselves

04.10.2006 17:23

Like I said, the 1st time you posted this.

Kriss died in a brutal attack.

Nick Griffin and the BNP came to Pollokshields to try and make capital out of this.

Local people were disgusted and wanted none of their racist crap.

Kriss's mum told them to stay away, saying she didn't want tensions to rise in the area.

Stop making childish arguments out of a family's grief, especially when they have said they want none of your shite.

Pollokshields resident

Why are you on about the BNP?

04.10.2006 18:15

The question dummy, was why the UAF has took no interest in the racist killing, a racist killing is a racist killing no matter the race of the victim.
Is this the best UAF cronies can come out with, by going on about the BNP?

Rachel

Repeat post

04.10.2006 23:31

This is a repeat post, and is almost certainly put up by a fascist troll.

Auntie

KRISS

05.10.2006 10:23

The Anti Nazi League behaved the same way a few years ago when a black man was attacked and set on fire. They were up in arms about it threatening demos and leafleting campaigns etc. When it was discovered that it was a group of Turkish men who had attacked the man they dropped it like a stone. This is meant to a INDEPENDENT media outlet so would people stop trying to tell people what they can or cannot write about.

Inncidently the press are on the whole ignoring this case, do Donalds Kriss parents grieve any less or was his life any less important than that of Stephen Lawrence. Are they both victims of some hippy liberal idealism about a multi-racial society, where everyone holds hands and spends their days dancing around an evergreen land smoking pot all day. The UAF cannot accept the fact that their is more hatred and violence between different minority groups and racial attacks from them onto white people than from white onto black, because it does not fit into their narrow minded agenda. The real fascists are already running the show.

Nigel

Read slowly and try to understand

05.10.2006 11:23

Kriss's mother said at the time she didn't want it treated as a racist issue. The only people who tried to treat it as a race issue were the BNP and other fascist loons.

This still applies. That's why the BNP are relevant to your attempt to spark a false "free speech on Indymedia" / "Why don't anti-racist organisations campaign against this murder they must be hypocrites" debate.

And I've never met a UAF member in Glasgow.

Is this some idealistic hippy posting? No. I live around the corner from where the boy was taken. The area has problems but it's not some hotbed of racial tension, sorry. Take your agenda back down south and keep it there. You are not wanted here.

Pollokshields resident

To Pollocksheilds resident

05.10.2006 12:48

Why the assumption that the only people who want to discuss this are racists and/or BNP?

It's a question of justice and fairness. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be up in arms when a case like Anthony Walker's happens. It's right that racist attacks are not ignored, that the victims and their families are supported and that the attackers are reviled as the racist scum that they are. But why is it that this does not happen in this case? Why is that the liberal media are silent on the Kriss Donald case?

I've been paki-bashed and racially abused - I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of it - and it makes me sick that this poor lad's case is all but ignored.

You can slag me off as a southern git but not as a racist or a BNP troll. All you're doing is avoiding the question.

Progressive Contrarian
Homepage: http://progcontra.blogspot.com

Jeez

05.10.2006 13:20

How many more times does this have to be answered before you fucking nazis shut up and go away. Read Pollokshields resident's post again:

'Kriss's mother said at the time she didn't want it treated as a racist issue...'

That's not enough for you racist freaks?

JohnC
Homepage: http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/

Race had nothing to do with it...

05.10.2006 13:23

Hello?
It wasn't a racist attack.
Kriss was not killed because he was white... race had nothing to do with why he was killed. That's why his mother told the BNP and others to fuck off!

That's why it wasn't treated as a racist attack depsite the best efforts of white supremacists to exploit it. Just like they are trying to do here.

Another G42 resident

Racist Attack

05.10.2006 14:33

It was reported in the press that the asian men admitted they went looking for a white man to kill. It is obvious that UAF etc cannot answer the questions originally asked and have to resort to the normal abuse of calling people Trolls, nazis etc and put their replies peppered with swearing. I bet you people are just wishing for the next ethnic to be killed by a group of white men so you can start banging the drum again. MURDER IS MURDER, stop judging the victims by their colour.