Peter Robinson, Racism and Ducks.

If a group of local people were to make a man from a racial minority feel intimidated and discriminated by erecting signs reading     “local housing, 4 local people” outside the home he was about to move into; most people would assume this was a racist attack.

Most people in this case it would seem, do not include the Northern Ireland first minister Peter Robinson.

For the DUP leader, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a goose. Continue reading

Pastor McConnell, racism and the Good Samaritan.

When I read my friend Gemma’s tweet asking her followers how they felt about Northern Ireland, I was hard pressed to think of anything positive to say.

Her tweet, coming off the back of remarks by a Pastor in Belfast that were derogatory to Muslims and Islam, left me wondering if there was anything good I could say about my home country. Continue reading