Does Barnsley have a racist reputation?

Are you from Ossett or the Moon

because you don't half chat some ****.</p>

 

Sound's like it must be Moon nt

 

So does lack of diversity mean the people are bigots? nt

 

I didn't realise we had this reputation

and I certainly do not think it is accurate. Of course there are some racists but I would argue that there are no more here than in other places!

 

People from barnsley are not the best to answer that

Yes. Sadly.

 

No he is not a racist Oakwell

he was being genuine. That was the impression is the impression he has. Although he has never been to Barnsley. He was questioning what he had been told and the impression he had.

 

In that case, why?

I have ben born and raised in Barnsley and I live in Barnsley. I have never thought we have a particular problem with racism.

What I've been alerted to today is that we have a problem with outsiders perception. I did not realise we had this problem either!

 

RE: In that case, why?

ask ian wright
darren moore
stoke h last season
leo fortune west Rotherham

 

utter ****

no worse than any other place.

 

RE: In that case, why?

I have known some racist abuse at Barnsley football matches. But very little and far less than I have heard attending matches with some other clubs! I do not see how this proves that the people of Barnsley are deserving of a reputation for being racist?

I agree it would be good to ask somebody like Bruce Dyer (or even Darren Moore etc) whether he thinks the people of Barnsley deserve to be known as racist.

 

I am going to say yes

my work mate is a sheff u fan and he came to oakwell last season, he said he has never had a abuse like it before in his life I felt embarassed to be a bbfc fan after he told me some of the things that had been said to him!

 

RE: utter ****

maybe Barnsley might have the reputation due to such idiots spreading it around, and in some odd way revelling in it!

 

RE: I am going to say yes

is he black or asian?

 

Ask him if he remembers

sheff u fans throwing bananas at campbell / plummer at bumhole lane.

 

I think its a perception of all towns with a lack of diversity

and seen as uncosmopolitan, but i think its generally then as issue of ignorance. People aren't used to being around people of diferent race and so aren't quite comfortable round them which in turn makes the ethnic minorities feel uncomfortable.

That said, I nearly took my mate who is black to wembley and I can't decide whether i'm glad he couldn't make it or not becuase of the racist abuse dished out by our fans to JCR and KO. Part of me wishes he had been there so we could have made them feel ashamed of themselves

 

RE: I am going to say yes

black, really good lad as well, he was saying he is used to some abuse (great society we live in where he is used to abuse!) but he actually was upset by this, doubt he will come again

 

doubt it

but do two wrongs make a right?

 

RE: I think its a perception of all towns with a lack of diversity

well if I hear any racist abuse I tell them myself.

I would never shy away from inviting someone to Barnsley or to a match just because they happen to have brown skin and I don't think anyone else should either!

If we have this problem as a town we really need to sort it out now!

 

RE: I am going to say yes

after I had this discussion at work today, I asked a couple of people what their experience of racism was. Both said that they had never had any racist abuse directed at them.

 

no

but I will reitterat that Barnsley is no more racist than any other large town city, perhaps its even less so due to limited presence of other "races"

Far more racism in the likes of bradford, blackburn, burnley etc where the presence of large "ethnic" communities has polarised and given focus to racist tendencies..IMHO like.