I didn’t even have a clue to vote and still don’t. I’m not sure if I’m going libertarian, pirate party, labour or liberal democrats. The only party I would hate to see in power is the conservatives. Now when have a hung parliament. It was interesting seeing what confusion the word hung brought as people tweeting from far corners of the globe thought parliament had been hung! Looks like we will now have another general election or conservatives and liberal democrats joining to form a coalition.

In the education world its good to finally see some schools abandoning the SATS papers. I always thought they were pointless for many years. The whole UK education system needs a reform and it should start by ditching SATS and replacing A-levels with the International Baccalaureate.

Will someone vote me in as PM please?

The United States constantly babbles on about tolerance and in some cases how advanced they are to the rest of the world. I am not going to say Britain is perfect but we are at least a good 10 years (maybe more) in thinking terms ahead of the United States.

Today in Britain being mixed race is actually recognized. Back in the US it appears that is not the case. It seems the norm for people to not recognize the other side of ones race or at worst dilute it and put you in the category of “Black” or “African American”. Mixed race people need to fight for recognition. They are a race themselves and should not be placed into a category when they are clearly mixed with another race.

What would be nice is Barack himself changing this from within. He has the power and being mixed race himself out to seek to make life better for mixed race people. You might think what the heck are you raving on about Matt (It is 1:37am! ) but I am talking about the right to ones race. The right for ones race to be recognized.

To quote from Wiki:

In their attempt to impose segregation and restore white supremacy in the late 19th century, some southern states created laws defining a person as black if the person had any known African ancestry. This was a stricter interpretation than what had prevailed earlier. It became known as the one-drop rule, meaning that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person “black”.

It seems like things haven’t really changed much. America is deluding its citizens by labelling a race incorrectly and is robbing the mixed race people of their own history.

Another nitbit from Wiki:

In recent decades, the multicultural climate of the United States has continued to expand with waves of new immigration. Although the terms mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial are increasingly used, it remains common for those who possess visible traits of black heritage to identify or be identified as blacks or African Americans. People of mixed ancestry possessing any recent black heritage may self-identify demographically as African American while acknowledging their African-American and other cultural heritages socially.

For example, 55% of European Americans classify President Barack Obama as biracial when they are told that he has a white mother, while 66% of African Americans consider him black. Obama describes himself as black and African American, using both terms interchangeably,and is generally considered to be African American.

Why does Obama only recognize one side of his heritage?

In my opinion the US has a long way to go on racial issues but hey we knew that. Having a Black, African American, Mixed race president is big strides for a nation full of so much prejudice. If a person of mixed heritage can take power there it will almost certainly happen here in the near future

America you have made a great step forward but you still have a very, very long way to go

My whine is over. It’s really late and I need my sleep now. I would like to wish President Obama all the best in Office and the U.S all the best in sorting out the current mess it’s in.

As for the UK… we need our saviour to rise and save us from our own mess! Gordon!!

Peace to the world.

I didn’t see the inorgoration ceremony and frankly I wasn’t very interested in watching something as small as the swearing in of the new president. However after logging on so many people have been raving about the whole thing I feel like I need to say my piece

First the issues on race. The media constantly rabbles on about him being black (so do some citizens). As far as I know Obama is mixed race and has one black and one white parent. Therefore he is mixed race. I know the media and certain people don’t class mixed race people as a “race” or even worse try to dissolve mixed race people of their race. Often saying if the mum is black that makes said person black and vice versa. The world clearly won’t be changed by one president of one nation nor will it make one kicked aside race become equal as other races.

Seeing reaction from around the world just makes me wonder what the fuss is about? He obviously has a lot of power but at the end of the day it won’t be impacting my nation much what happens there. Unless we decide to follow them into a needless war again. I think too much may be expected of this one person by everyone. I understand this is a big thing for a nation with such a racist past and present.

Unfortunately for the new president Ayman al-Zawahiri has been babbling. Promising of more spilt American blood and airing his racist views.

Apart from those few niggles and a few more I forgot (probably due to my lack of sleep)

I wish the president best of luck he’s gotta lot to do

I suppose you can pretty much guess what happened next. Both women were begging me to swap my chain (round my neck) for some gold ring. Obviously annoyed because it’s not the first time I have been confronted by these beggars. I told them to go away. Their persistence really irritated me. To the point I had to stand up as they were hovering in on me for about a minute. Eventually they walked off.

Excuse me while I rant a little

I don’t mind their being people from other nations or even people begging. What I do mind is these people’s persistence (always begging with their drugged up baby’s ). They will throw water over your car’s windscreen while you wait for the traffic lights to go green even when you asked them not to. To top it off these people seem to like thieving off the vulnerable (I wonder what it would have been luck had I been old! My friend saw them close in on someone once

Just the benefits of living in the EU. The UK is a great place for retards big and small to beg, lie, cheat and steal

In no way am I only isolating this group here. There are problems with all groups. However this particular group stand out. They don’t want to find a job and work like anybody else. The polish workers have a brilliant reputation here. They work hard and are truthful (most).

Like I said I have no problems with people that want to genuinely come here and work but you can see some people really make a mockery of the UK

Yep, Well apart from that the day was standard. Got another assignment to do at college. Fun, Fun, treble fun

Firstly I think these are made up by people with too much time on their hands. Probably the same people who thought the holocaust didn’t happen, WW2 was initiated by a small group of Martians. You get the idea

I want to note I am not trying to offending anyone who has lost someone in the dreadful attacks. They were very nasty indeed.

I would like to know what goes through the conspirators mind. What purpose do these theories serve? We know governments lie. We know 9/11 and 7/7 both happened. They both cannot be reversed and were done by a nasty group of extremists. If this was done by a secret service (no government would be stupid enough to do such a thing ) What would be the purpose?

I would like to direct readers here. Notice how anonymous who claims they were demolished with explosives conveniently comes out with all this years after the attacks. Time to play with the videos perhaps? Or did they get paid to say that

I want the readers to make up their minds here. What does everyone think? I personally think these conspiracy’s should be put to rest because what’s happened has happened and nothing can change that. Also I find it offensive to the victims and their families that people keep pushing these theories.

Discuss