My Strange Week continued

Continuing from my weird week, my friend and I went for a bite to eat in the evening at our local and were subjected to aggressive verbal abuse continually for a good half an hour. He decided to pick on two small women and called us everything he could, 'informers', 'racists' and in calling us racist he proclaimed he would never again touch a fork if we had touched it. 'Chinese, Indian, they're all racist!', I guess he didn't know what race we were so said the two races that he had heard of. He also said 'They try to be black, look at them, they listen to our music (I'm partial to a bit of Rihanna but c'mon), they try to dress like us, look at them with their baggy jeans, before they used to dress in tight jeans like batty boys (err both of us aren't wearing baggy jeans), they don't even bathe, their pussy's stink!' (Sexism rears its ugly head again surprise surprise, see 'Women's role in the Arab world').

His older friend then came in and asked the guy working at the restaurant why his friend was so angry and if he was conspiring with those two girls. My friend laughed at this whole absurdity and he came right up to us and stared at us with his cross-eyed ugly face in an attempt at intimidation 'Don't laugh at me ya nah, I'm a big man, don't laugh at me'. My friend retorted 'I'll say what I like, what are you going to do?' My mouth is usually pretty big & trust me, there have been loads of times where men have wanted to punch me in the face but I said to her to leave it cos he was clearly MENTAL. (Just like 'grass root' Torys, you cannot reason with mental people.) He then took a banana from the counter, ate it in front of us and said 'black people like to eat bananas'. I eat bananas too, but I don't think that was the point he was making.

My friend suggested that weed had gone to their head, for me I like to think that they were possessed. Why else would they have picked on us of all people, for no reason at all? At least they have an excuse for their bitterness, stereotyping and general nonsensical rants, but what about the politicians of the world?...

My Strange Week...

Last Monday I went to my job seekers appointment, to collect what feels like the remnants of communism. The normally friendly guy was extremely short with me and told me had cut me off because I didn't turn up to a random check on my job search the week before.

1stly WHY THE HELL are you randomly checking me? I am a graduate, do you think I paid £9k plus for my education to sit on the dole for less than a tenner a day?

2ndly WHY THE HELL don't you 'randomly' check the people that cannot seem to get a job but can make it to the bookies at 9am every day?

3rdly I called your 0845 number that you make JOBLESS people call to tell you I could not make it as I had an interview, you know the thing that is meant to make me get off the dole??

4thly This is MY NATIONAL INSURANCE money that I'm begging for!

He had no sympathy and said I should have come after my interview and waited around the job centre until he had seen all of his appointments to check in with him. Just because you haven't got a job they think they can enslave you and demand you to be there at whatever time of day. When I returned and spoke to a different clerk he said the job centre is becoming like a 'concentration camp' and 'prison' with all the new government requirements. He also let me in on another 'secret'; that now they are ACTUALLY going to really help us get a job instead of just signing us off because there are too many people on job seekers allowance. Well blow me down! The job centre are actually going to start helping us get jobs?!

Later that week I met the TORY boy, being working class and living in London I don't usually meet, or possibly have never met someone like him. He asked me my view point on so many specific topics just so he could try and prove his narrow minded point of views. I told him I was at Occupy at St Pauls, he asked me how it was, to which I replied 'fun' & he said 'I knew it, it's just a party, I bet everyone was drinking and taking drugs etc'. Errr no, they have a strict policy of no drugs or alcohol, it was fun just because it was a good experience with loads of varied debates going on. The picture on the left was a guy from 'anonymous' and a random capitalist heckler who we ended up chatting to for about 2 hours. He repeatedly kept saying 'What are you doing here with these losers?' ie what are three 'normal' non-hippy, bathing, young women doing at this protest?

Yet the people who insist on stereotyping are the people who conform to stereotypes themselves. The Tory boy is a pro-fox hunting, clay pigeon shooting, Guardian hating, anti-immigration, sticking up for colonialism, boarding school educated, racism denier. Among the least offensive things he said was that 'a foreign name does not inhibit you from getting a job'. This is 100% untrue and just shows you how naive some people are. I can think of 100 examples but off the top of my head; a lawyer family friend once left an interview in tears when the employer said she had all the credentials but wouldn't hire her because of her surname 'Mohammed'. Another friend had a disheartening short time as a recruitment consultant for professionals because her superiors would put CVs in the bin if the header name was foreign and would say 'this CV looks good' if their was name was 'Thomas' or 'James' etc. Even entrepreneur 'James Caan' changed his name as he knew he wasn't going to get anywhere with a Pakistani name. (Also see http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/2011/11/disadvantage-of-being-ethinc.html). One of the more offensive things was a sarcastic fake phone call he made saying 'We colonised countries, especially in Africa, then we left, and now they want our charitable help?'

Need to dye some hair now, will be back... Peace

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