PenrithBeacon Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 http://news.sky.com/story/britains-first-black-train-driver-wilston-samuel-jackson-honoured-with-blue-plaque-at-londons-kings-cross-12444391 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad McCann Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Well earned at last, I say. 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadway Clive Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 They should be able to put up quite a lot of blue plaques for immigrants at this rate! There must be hundreds of 'firsts' that are just as, or more 'important' than a steam engine driver. Personally I find this kind of identity politics nauseatingly racist, as if its so much more of an achievement for someone who is non-white. I had a 35 year railway career and found no differences between people related to their colour. I suspect one of my old colleagues, a steam engine driver from Uganda, who was expelled from that country by black people because he had Indian ethnicity, would also have found this plaque nauseating. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 7 minutes ago, Broadway Clive said: as if its so much more of an achievement for someone who is non-white. If you really don’t get that it was more of an achievement, it might be worth thinking it through at greater length. And, even if you still conclude that it wasn’t, why be “nauseated” by the celebration of someone else’s achievement? Are you jealous that nobody came round and screwed a plaque to your house? 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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