I sat for around ten minutes today watching two canvassers trying to sign up people to give monthly donations to their animal rights charity. Both lads were White and they were on the main street in Bradford city centre, nothing alarming there. However, I counted them stopping fourty people and what became very obvious very quickly was the fact that they seemed to only be stopping White people. In fact, out of fourty people they approached only ONE non-White. Why could this be? I decided to ask!
According to the canvasser they pay no attention whatsoever to a passerby's ethnic origin that they choose to approach, why then I asked was only one in fourty NOT White? He said he hadn't even noticed the numbers but could 'assure' me that on average twenty percent of people supporting the charity were from non-White backgrounds. "So you monitor the ethnicity of those you stop then" I asked? "No" he said - he was then unable to offer any explanation as to how he was able to provide those figures when he had just said they DIDN'T pay any attention to Race at all!
He did however inform me that all he wanted was to ensure that in thirty years time his little Son would be able to see a tiger as they were almost extinct - to which I replied "If I were you I'd be more concerned about my Son not seeing a WHITE PERSON in thirty years time" :0)
