PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN OLD SITE!

To visit the new site for True Brits, with far more info and fun stuff,
please click the link below

Click to visit the new True Brits site!

DARKIE DAY
SEE THE VIDEO CLIP ON YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/jrdaeschner

EXCERPT FROM TRUE BRITS ©JR DAESCHNER

Now, don't get the wrong idea-most people in Padstow will tell you they're not racist, at least no more than anyone else in this great country.

"Coloureds" are welcome to stroll along the harbour or dine in Rick Stein's restaurant or stay in the Metropole overlooking the Caribbean-blue waters and golden beaches where the rich and royal come to play. The Cornish wouldn't treat them any differently from any other outsiders.

And anyway, how can you be racist if there aren't any blacks around to be racist against? Except for one, of course-good ole Ziggy, a West Indian who has lived here for years (or did he move away?).
At any rate, it never bothered him. And the former mayor, why, she used to march in London to Free Mandela, and she never thought twice about the pot calling the kettle black, so to speak.

All of which goes to show why on Boxing Day and New Year's Day-when there aren't too many emmets about-Old Padstonians see nothing wrong in dressing up like blackface minstrels, parading through town and belting out songs about "niggers".

Click to visit the new True Brits site!