Yeah, Lexi.....don't you know that people with dark skin are much "badder" than people with more of a pink tinge.

It stands to reason.

(There was once a strange little thread on a backwater site called OLO, where the inhabitants posted every story they'd ever heard of a "dark skinned" person causing grief.

They never stopped to note that they omitted to mention all the stories that involved white people causing grief.

The End)

I think that concealing a person's identity, whether it be race, accent, etc. is ridiculous. If we were to go the 'full nine yards' of political correctness', any infirmity would also be concealed.

By this criteria, the ethnicity or origin of a missing person should be concealed. Idiotic! Yes!

A few years ago, on a busy city street, I went to the aid of an elderly woman who had fallen down some steps. This poor woman was considerably taller and heavier than myself.

Every white person who passed, deliberately looked the other way.

Every Asian who passed, stopped and asked if they could help. Eventually with the assistance of these kind people, who not only called a taxi but assisted with getting her comfortable and into the taxi, I managed to get her to hospital and the care she needed.

And yes, they all looked and sounded Asian! If they hadn't come to this person's aid, we would still be there, or both plummeted off our respective twigs.

Poirot,

"They never stopped to note that they omitted to mention all the stories that involved white people causing grief."

Utterly, utterly agree!

That is why I do not think ethnicity should be concealed. This tends to muddy the waters as to numbers of crimes committed by one group vis a vis others.

Dear Bazz,

You are entitled to think whatever you want of me.
However I do want to clarify your suggestion that
my opinions are PC. That suggests to me that you
think that your opinions are of more value. Which
is arrogant. I'm simply expressing what I have
experienced and how I feel on any given issue.
I am not deliberately trying to be difficult.
And if I tend to see the good in most people - that's
the way I am. You don't have to like it - or me - for that
matter.

I must admit I am very confused about this entire issue.

If a person is a serial rapist preying on women in a certain area; or is a serial child molester ... or perhaps committing lesser crimes, to apprehend such a person, and indeed, warn the public, surely it is necessary to state their details, whatever they are.

Of 'X' appearance' hardly cuts it - the subtext says it all! But ... can also be confusing, as already discussed.

One finds in other countries (non-western) of mixed ethnicities,there is no coyness about this.

Each group has its bad apples - not one is immune. Rational people do not blame entire racial groups for this.

Surely, to hedge about racial descriptions is a form of racism in itself. I find no problems in referring to someone as Chinese, Indian, or whatever. I do not see this as denigrating; nor indeed would the person him/herself.

If a statement is the truth then it cannot be either racist or discriminative.
The simple fact is that there are more indigenous people in prison ( and there would be more if the courts did their job rather that live in fear of the "Deaths in Custody" crap, because they commit more crime.
They do not have to commit crime, they do it because the want to.
Interesting isn't though the pedophile populations are predominately white males.
CG