Goody, Goody, Yum, Yum - Racism and Jade Goody By Lee Cassanell

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced; Herbert Spencer

The problem with racism is there is currently no well known or vicious enough word that another race can use to discriminate against white people. In fact during an extensive search of the internet the only even mildly offensive term I could find was "Honky" and if you are white and offended by that might I suggest you revaluate your priorities in life and get a fucking grip. So for the benefit of world peace I've decided to invent a racist term to describe old whitey and that term shall be ...Yorkshire Pudding

Jade Goody has recently been the subject of a grossly over exaggerated international scandal because she called Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty "Mrs Poppadom" and because our increasingly mental society has decided that calling someone a Poppadom is now worthy of front page headlines and 24 hour news, I'm going hire an African woman to sit in the audience of the BBC's Question Time programme and shout Tony Blair is a Yorkshire Pudding and I can only imagine that she will receive the same treatment as Miss Goody.

If the world had expressed outrage that Jade was bullying Shilpa and not concentrated on the race issue then I would not be writing this article because there would be nothing to say on the subject. Goody is a bully and that was crystal clear to anyone who has seen the footage but I'm totally unconvinced that she is a racist and I'm quite certain her reaction was provoked.

Shilpa called Jade "Common" and "Ill Educated" and Jermaine Jackson referred to her as "White Trash" but in India and England where the cast and class systems are the very foundation of society, it seems it's acceptable to discriminate against a person's social background but calling an Indian woman a Poppadom is up there with Nazi War Crimes. I don't see the balance in that argument. In fact I'd go as far as to say that the slurs against Jade were far worse than the slur she dished out but it seems nobody gives a fuck about the thoughts and feelings of the white working classes so we should all go back to our cloth caps and whippets and accept whatever abuse is thrown at us.

Are the working classes so oppressed or accepting of their position in the world that they don't feel they can speak out against discrimination, or is it more a case that they shrug it off and dismiss such verbal assaults as unimportant and trivial? Coming from that background myself, I think it's a combination of both of those factors but I mainly put it down to the sheer ignorance and stupidity of the British public.

It's 2007 and England still has Aristocrats, Lords, Ladies and most ridiculous of all, a royal family. Russia and France had revolutions; America declared Independence and counties all over the globe have deposed their regal ruling elites but all we did in England was to chop the Kings head off and then replace him with another King soon after and in over 400 years that is the closet this supposed "Great Nation" has come to dismantling the class system that we now so willingly seem to accept.

We are brought up to respect our social betters, bow to the Queen and show favour to an individual simply because they have a title before their name and it boils every blood cell in my body that most people do not see how archaic and oppressing that all is. In a country that portrays itself to be fair, equal and progressive we are still being controlled by those with land, deed and title but because they have gilded our cages with Wide screen TV's and Ikea Coffee tables, we no longer see the bars of our prisons until we attempt to escape them.

Jade Goody did escape. With the few brains she has she's managed to become a millionaire and I think most of the insults directed towards her recently are quite simply pent up jealousy exhibited by those snobs amongst us who begrudge the fact this dumb working class girl has done so well for herself. I personally don't reckon she is as stupid as people make out and other than the obvious anger issues I'm sure she is a good person at heart ... but I tell you ...with all the hatred and resentment being hurled in that girls direction at the moment I wouldn't trade places with her for all the Poppadoms in India.

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