africanspur
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Shamana said skin colour or ethnicity. I think we can all agree, despite everything else, that Shamima is being treated differently because of her ethnicity than a white British person would be, despite being born here and despite our enlightened laws pretending that we treat migrants and their kids in the same way.No it's not a case that it 'bothers me that much,' it's that the way you phrased your original response made it appear that, in no uncertain terms, she was being mistreated based on her skin colour. Which is why I didn't attack you, but said rather innocently that I didn't understand.
Broadly speaking I feel we agree. I'm not sure if you read my edited post before replying (I mangled by thumb in a hand blender a few days ago so my posts are just a bit of a mess and I press reply before I mean to ) but I elaborate a bit more in there.
Apologies about your thumb and I hadn't seen the edit.
I'm a 1st generation immigrant and therefore understand that there will be some people who may accept my presence but will probably feel that I'm somehow being done a favour by being given citizenship and if I somehow err, it is not my right but a privilege which can be taken away from me. Fine.
My kids were born here though and yes, while this is a particularly extreme situation, I don't like the precedent that they are somehow different from their white British equivalents, despite certain people falling over themselves to tell us how this country and its laws are colour (or immigrant if you'd prefer I said that) blind.