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I remember being asked(and I hate this question).. "where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

I also hated "What are your weaknesses?"

I cant remember what I answered, but after working with that supervisor/director for a few years, he stopped asking me certain questions because he knew what kind of answer I would give him.

One day he asked us individually in a meeting, "What's the purpose of your job, what is your job description", annoyed again I told him... "To make you shine".

He was like "I knew you were gonna say something smartass"

I said "well you asked"

More spam.

Well, imagine being asked about something as impossible as this at interview ...



Lynched by 11 Asians,
22 October 2005, aged 24 ...
only 3 people charged with
his murder to date!



Organisation that actively campaigns for cultural,
economic, political and social justice on behalf of
the African community

To: Ligali
Date: 2 November 2005
Subject: taking responsibility

Dear Toyin

Ligali and some other Black media outlets must take some responsibility in fueling a climate of race hatred.

Instead of showing leadership to African people by targeting its attention to potential criminals Ligali -by calling for an Asian boycott - sort (sic) to demonise a whole continent of people over an incident which may or not have happened.

Its present rethoric is in danger of doing the same again over the murder of Ishiah Young-Sam.

For a long time Ligali has been a positive force in the British Black community. It must live up to that high standard and not behave like right wing groups that take the actions of a few to stereotype a generation.

Simon Woolley
Director OBV



"Operation Black Vote is a non-party political campaign, supported by a broad coalition of mainly Black organisations ... The term 'Black' is a political term. It refers to African, Asian, Caribbean and other ethnic minorities."

"When I first came to London from Leicester 20 years ago, I got a job with a company based in Redbridge and the boss happened to be Jewish. In Leicester, the only time that you met a Jew was in a joke. As schoolchildren we'd say, 'Don't be a Jew, give me a sweet'. But you never associated such comments with a people.

Working with Jewish people I did understand very quickly that there was a vernacular and a discourse that I needed to adopt to belong. The street vernacular: It's a schlepp over there; don't be a schnorer. I used go to the Schvitz with my Jewish friends and the team of schmeissers, we used to take turns and give each other a rub down with the lulluf, and you used call someone a schmooser and a lulluf on the phone.

I got very close to this group and I used to go to Bar Mitzvahs and family celebrations. I remember one particular Bar Mitzvah when there was a knock on the door and the Mohel walks in to this house full of Jewish people there and the first thing he does is call out 'Simon, what are you doing here?' And where I knew him from was down the Schvitz.

But there is the prevailing legacy of racism. I was invited round to the boss' house for dinner on a Friday night with all his family. And they asked me how I was getting on with my flat, and I said. 'It's all right but he's a right Jew'. And everybody just stopped eating their food, and I realised what I'd said. What I'd meant to say was 'He's mean'. I realised what I'd said. I apologized. I explained that I was from Leicester and they said they understood, they knew me to be a good man, but from that moment on I realised that people can say it's only a joke but it isn't. We're still friends to this day."



Simon Woolley of
The Black Jewish Forum


... how would you explain that?