{"id":5460,"date":"2020-09-14T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:01:24","slug":"racism-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/racism-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers in the Night: When Racism Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">A SHORT STORY<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/When-Racism-Backfires.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5494\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/When-Racism-Backfires.jpeg\" alt=\"When Racism Backfires\" width=\"992\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/When-Racism-Backfires.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/When-Racism-Backfires-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/When-Racism-Backfires-768x514.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Surely Not Me?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Is it possible to be prejudiced, intolerant of other groups, or even xenophobic but not know it? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bob is about to discover something about his personality he didn&#8217;t know existed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prefer to listen? Here\u2019s the podcast version<br \/>\n<\/strong><iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/davidwithington\/embed\/episodes\/Strangers-in-the-Night-When-Racism-Backfires-ejjumm\/a-a376kac\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nListen &amp; Subscribe in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/davidwithington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Anchor<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/davidwithington-com\/id1365119702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3pqSjKsATP4eFOf04u5zvN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">The Scene is Set<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bob has been awoken suddenly by a noise from the street below. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So he dashes over to the window and parts the curtains slightly to look. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">His wife, Mo, is also awake and opens one eye&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5472\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522.jpg\" alt=\"Noise in the night\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jumpstory-download20200913-133522-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: What&#8217;s up, Bob?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I&#8217;m just watching these two thugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: How do you know they&#8217;re thugs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I can tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Oh? How can you tell?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: They&#8217;re foreigners.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5485\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Looks-like-they-are-thugs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5485\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Looks-like-they-are-thugs.jpg\" alt=\"Looks like they are thugs\" width=\"900\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Looks-like-they-are-thugs.jpg 900w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Looks-like-they-are-thugs-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Looks-like-they-are-thugs-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Looks like they&#8217;re thugs&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Foreigners? Being a bit racist, a bit stereotyping, aren&#8217;t we?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: It&#8217;s obvious, Mo!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Obvious? How&#8217;s it obvious?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: No one from Wigan is that thin. He&#8217;s got to be foreign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Like from where?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I don&#8217;t know. From Bolton&#8230; or St Helens&#8230; or Liverpool. Or, heaven forbid, from Warrington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Bob, you&#8217;re so prejudiced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: It&#8217;s that other guy I&#8217;m most suspicious of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Go on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: No one from Wigan is that short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: You&#8217;ve really lost it now, Bob. We&#8217;ll have the <em>Height Relations Board<\/em> after us if they hear us. Let me switch off Alexa just in case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: No. Look at him, Mo. Just the way he walks. You can tell. He&#8217;s from one of those poor countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Like where?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I don&#8217;t know. Those places where all the refugees come from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Refugees?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Yep. Them lot who can&#8217;t <em>speyk proper<\/em>, but sneak over the border into our beloved England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: From where?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: From places like Wales. And Scotland. And them who get &#8216;ere from across the ocean, in them rubber dinghy things. From distant shores like&#8230; like the Isle of Man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Come back to bed, Luv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: No. Come and look at this, Mo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">[Mo gets up and peers through the window]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Bob&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: What now, Mo?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: That&#8217;s Fred and Ivy from next door. Put your glasses on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Oh? Nice couple, they are. Would never hurt a fly. Wonder why I thought that about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Yes. Fred and Ivy are great people. Scousers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: [shocked] Scousers? SCOUSERS!? I didn&#8217;t know that about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: What do you mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I mean&#8230; Scousers. I mean&#8230; bringing their foreign religions over to Wigan. I mean&#8230; They don&#8217;t even <em>speyk proper<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: And you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Aye. Wigan born and bred. And buttered. I am, me. [pauses to think] You know what, Mo&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: What?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: If you hadn&#8217;t told me that, I&#8217;d have sworn they were Wiganers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Oh? Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: &#8216;Cos they&#8217;re nice people. [pauses to reflect] Perhaps I misjudge people, sometimes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: I think so, too, Bob. Come back to bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Mo! Look! They&#8217;ve gone back inside. It&#8217;s 3 am. They were out for no reason. I told you they were up to no good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Up to no good?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Yeah. Waking us up at this unearthly hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Well I&#8217;ll let you tell them tomorrow morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: Tell them what, Mo?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mo: Tell them that they shouldn&#8217;t have been allowed to sail from Liverpool along the canal in their little rubber dinghy and disembark at Wigan Pier, 31 years ago. That being so thin and short is not allowed in our town. And that they live next to an intolerant racist nosey-parker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[Bob trots round to his side of the bed]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob: I&#8217;m not listening to that rubbish. There&#8217;s no need to talk to anyone. It&#8217;s a good job I&#8217;m so accepting of foreigners. Goodnight, Mo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5475\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Goodnight-Mo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5475\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Goodnight-Mo.jpg\" alt=\"Goodnight Mo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Goodnight-Mo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Goodnight-Mo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Goodnight-Mo-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Goodnight Mo&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Listen to Bob and Mo<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">If you enjoyed that, have a <em>listen<\/em> on the podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">You&#8217;ll love the voices. 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