Really? She was there as a representative of a charity that helped women of African and Caribbean ancestry with issues around domestic violence. She changed her Anglo-sounding name to an African-sounding one. She wore a style of attire that is markedly not British in origin.I've already answered this in the thread, in fact in the OP. I'm tired of answering the same questions.But you DO know her true motives, right? And of course you think they were somehow benign. Because of course you think that.
I think Hussey wanted to know Fulani's ethnic and cultural origins. That seems evident to me because Hussey said 'I knew we'd get there' when she heard it, and the exchange ended.
And why would she want to know that about this woman? Why would it matter in the context of that event? She wasn't going around asking everybody for that information.
Really? I went back to the OP, and you said nothing about why her ethnic and cultural origin would matter in the context of that event.
Now, whether it 'mattered' or not depends on your perspective, but Fulani was making a point of it, which is probably why Hussey asked her about it.
I did not make the claim that Hussey knew Fulani changed her name. I made the claim Fulani changed her name to deliberately emphasise her cultural and ethnic heritage.I believe that Pood asked you roughly the same question, and you avoided answering it with the same excuse. Again, Hussey could not possibly have known anything about her name until she reached over to push Fulani's hair out of the way of her name tag. Hussey did not ask Fulani about why she chose to change her name, because she did not know that Fulani had changed her name.
Perhaps.Hussey did not remark on Fulani's clothing, although a picture of her made you think about her clothing as some kind of attitude statement. Hussey had asked Nafir Abzal where he was from but did not press him after he said "Manchester". Perhaps he was a bit more intimidating to her than Fulani was.
It was certainly not about Fulani's nationality, which Hussey accepted without question.It seems to me that you cannot answer the question without admitting that this was about Fulani's race and immigration status.
Cannot answer the question? I've been answering it from the moment I posted the OP.
Of course it was about Fulani's ethnic and cultural heritage. That's what Hussey wanted to know.
If you are saying 'Hussey would not have asked the same question of anybody with white skin, and that's what makes it racist', then I disagree with both the first part and the second part. First, as I related in my OP, I have been in Fulani's position hundreds of times, only it is my name that generally triggers the enquiry. For all I know, it was Fulani's name that triggered Hussey's enquiry (the exchange started after Hussey found out Fulani's name).
But even if it were Fulani's skin colour alone that caused Hussey to want to know Fulani's ethnic and cultural heritage...so what? That isn't racist. It's an acknowledgment that up until the mid-twentieth century, Britain's ethnic makeup was a lot more Anglo-Celtic than it is now, and so anyone who isn't Anglo-Celtic is likely to have immediate ethnic and cultural ties that are not British.
In fact, in the 1950s when Fulani's parents moved to the UK, 'other Caribbean' did not even register above an m-dash on the Census.
We evidently have different understandings of the word 'racist'. I have given you an alternative perspective on the incident. You can do with that as you please.That's why most people perceive Hussey's behavior as racist, but you want to deny it.