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Blackboards were changed to chalkboards because not all are black! Some were/are green and some are/were brown. It's a total lie to say that it's because anyone deemed the word racially offensive. If they were called n*boards then that would be a different matter - though even would still be defended by those who think it's a mountain out of a molehill.
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@leatash - indeed, but some people have so little to do in their lives they make a mountain out of a mole hill, usually the saddest souls make the biggest meals of these little morsels, but i respect their opinion - obviously.
'symbolic of the current state of the health care service', NO......SYMBOLIC of the last several decades of the health care service. The NHS services will be trimmed down to the point of a few super hospitals hundreds of miles apart dotted around the country and will be privatised off to the highest bidder some time in the future. It does not matter which party is in power as they all have ...
And thats the point it's a slip of the tongue it happens every day in every walk of life wake up people thats life.
If every m.p. had a digital tick a tape above their heads I think you would see the real picture in westminster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ After reading the above link from wikipedia I can see what she was describing, but astounded as to the phrase she used to descibe it. The phrase she was recorded saying is obviously not acceptable in these current times and from someone ...
@From The Grave , when i was teaching in an inner city area in the 80s the then labour run council issued instructions to all schools not to refer to blackboards, they were to be called chalk boards, as blackboard was racially offensive!
Of course she shouldn't have used the expresson, although I don't think she was being wilfully racist in the way that Labour MP Diane Abbott is.
Fair enough Burnside. So do you agree that the MP for our constituency was wrong to use the word and has deservedly lost (for now at least) the Tory whip?
@From The Grave It's been adopted by some activists, there are many people who have not "reclaimed" the word and still find it as highly offensive now as in the past.