Is the black and asian police association a racist organisation?

Bear

Not particularly racist but just unfair.

If we tried for a White Police Officers Association then I dare say this will be classed as racist.

What does annoy me however is minority groups being given being given an 'unfair' helping hand to get them into specialist roles or promoted. It does happen and will continue to happen.

Too much emphasis is placed on minority groups and not upsetting them.

tony c

the title is!!

if a white police association was formed the race relations board and their freinds the lefties would be up in arms over it.

and god only knows what the muslims would do.-they drove a postmaster (who was morrocan) out of his job because he had the audacity to suggest all immigrants should learn this country's native tongue to help integrate.

nb: for wolfie-the black gangmasters were happy to take white mans money for their own kin folk-they would sell their own relations for the right price-who do you think did the work of selecting "suitable candidates" for slavery in the west indies ?.

and lest people forget (well the coloured ones do)-that in the UK it was a white man (william wilberforce) who helped abolish slavery in the colonies.

djw

If an organisation is based on race then it is racist. A case of the PC's not being PC.

Silver Fox

Yes, it's blatantly racist. Note to Rank Jeff: White people didn't steal your ancestry...your ancestors sold it for a price. Don't forget who sold blacks into slavery...their own people!!

devils advo

totally agree the police should know better white or black its wrong to differentiate and no government should tolerate its police force forming such a blatantly racist association.the question needs to be asked would they exclude a white police officer? if yes then it is without doubt racist.

Paul R

Yes, the fact that it exists at all is racist, and it doesn't stop there. There is also a National Association of muslim Police (NAMP).http://www.namp-uk.com/
National Black Police Association, and a Metropolitan Black Police Association.

This notion that White/ European/ Caucasians can't be trusted to have an association without it turning into the National Front, while Africans and Asians are incapable of racial hatred, is deeply flawed. You only have to read Rank Jeff's answer to see the ignorance and deep seated resentment of whites that some black people have. Integration cures racism, segregation breeds it.

It's not just the Police. The government and the whole of society need to wake up and realize that blacks and Asians can be just as racist as anyone else...and to think otherwise is pure racism!

Gordon Clown PM of the UK

You are forgetting that only white people can be racist. Therefore the
BAPO cannot be a racist organisation and thus as you have questioned their very existence, - you must be racist ( unless of course you are black or asian )

A police friend of mine despairs at this logic, but that is the official view of our Great Leaders. Madness

Bob

Yes but if you are white you are not allowed to ask a question like that. If we want equality there should be one association looking after everyone.

Willow

Strictly speaking, how would we know?
The fact that it exists is sheer hypocrisy in my view, if we are all equal in law why do such "organisations" need to exist?
They perpetuate division, contrary to what their aim is supposed to be.

Aeon Flux

It recruits on the bases of race and aims to push a specific racial agenda which includes aiding it's members chances of promotion over that of it's fellow white officers. If it isn't racist than neither is the BNP or KKK, for that matter.

Also, as it has been mentioned, it is a historical fact that slavery was an African instituion before the arrival of the whites and was ultimately suppressed by White Europeans in the face of opposition form Black African tribal leaders.

Barbara Doll to you

Of course it is, but they tend to turn a blind eye to it to help redress imbalances.

Buffy

it's only rasism if you exclude anyone who isn't white

big owl

You bet it is

The Rikstir VIII

Yes of course it is .

robert c

In a sense it can be labelled as a racist organisation as it will only enrol personnel of certain races.
Allowing ethnic minorities to form an organisation based on these lines is organised systemic racism and favouritism.
The big test will come when that Liverpool policeman takes his employers to court for unlawful dismissal because he belongs to a political party not acceptable to his employers or the ethnic minorities.
That case will rest on the premise of;If a person does their job honestly and fairly;What does it matter what political party that person belongs to?
Or is this Labour Party introducing a new organisation called the 'Thought Police'
What has happened to the much heralded Labour Slogan !'Transparency and honesty?

Stig Bubblecard

No, because white officers can join

Back to the drawing board

Of course not, it's a charity to fight racism in the police force which was set up because the police wanted to recruit more black and ethnic minority police officers and when they did they found that a lot of them were leaving so they wanted to find out why. White police officers can also join it if they want to work at combatting racism in the force. Any group can be set up for the interests of its members and any outside supporters, you wouldn't call Help the Aged and Age Concern 'ageist' for example.

Mr Abba

I dont believe its racist.

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