If Amir Khan Was White British Would He Be More Popular in UK?

[Forza]

You cant just put up pictures of a small group (compared to the ordinary ******) waving banners and say it represents what the ******s believe in the UK.

I can do the same for the KKK and say its what all americans believe or sein finn (I think thats how you spell it) and say all irish are like that. Your generalising and you need to learn your history.

Khan would definately be a bigger name aswell as have a bigger following if he were white. You cannot mention former black british boxers and say, 'here you go, black boxers who we loved.. we're not racist', because they were from a different era.

Post 9/11 is the key event in this scenario.

Some people comments have certainly proven Hard Boiled's words.

The KKK are an irrelevant group of white ( that's a race, not a RELIGION ) racist from the south during the 1920-1960's. There is hardly any of them left.

The radical ******s are probably 10-20 million strong in europe and routinely march in the streets preaching hatred.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I hate to say it but the UK seems like its not at the same level as the US when it comes to race relations and tolerance, Heck just look at the US president.

American fans are pure boxing fans. They dont bring prejudice into the boxing arena. For instance Manny is oriental yet he gets great support in america. That would never ever happen in britain. Only place manny would get support in the UK is in china town or Chinese restaurant.

This is surely a piss take

[Trigg]

This is surely a piss take

The bloke's on a fishing trip, he always is.

Yet people still bite

[Chuggerboom1]

Most of you clowns that are posting here don't know **** all about Britain. Let us all know when you have actually been here.

[John Hue]

So Khan is talent, Believes in himself, Isnt white and so can never be as popular as Hatton, Froch, Mitchell.

Like it has been said, The "British" really need to get thier house in order. Manny is oriental boxer and in the US is a superstar, In UK he would only be appreciated in a chinese take-out.

Also reading some of the responses of people here from Britian it only proves what Khan has said all along: "If I was white British fighter, Id be a superstar"

This really is garbage. Khan is very popular more so than Froch. Partly because he has a huge British Asian following and a following of giggly teenage girls. He has a niche following that would not normally be into boxing. With white boxers you will only tend to get the following of fight fans and they like fighters not media creations. If you had a white fighter promoted like Khan,protected like Khan I doubt he would be as popular as Khan.Financially being Asian has worked for him not against him.
The bst British boxers from the past tend to be black guys like Michael Watson, Benn and Eubank. They were very popular more so than their white contemparies.

[Home town hero]

The KKK are an irrelevant group of white ( that's a race, not a RELIGION ) racist from the south during the 1920-1960's. There is hardly any of them left.

The radical ******s are probably 10-20 million strong in europe and routinely march in the streets preaching hatred.

yeah and you know that from miami/michigan ****.

They tried to march through wooten basset and thousands would of gone to prevent that and many to swing it out, a lot of people i know wanted blood if they marched through that almost holy town.

[omarinbox]

The KKK are an irrelevant group of white ( that's a race, not a RELIGION ) racist from the south during the 1920-1960's. There is hardly any of them left.

The radical ******s are probably 10-20 million strong in europe and routinely march in the streets preaching hatred.

The KKK were a religious group: they were specifically Protestant. They are still going and have rallies and have been on TV recently. In fact they are growing since ***** was elected according to wiki:

http://sify.com/news/ku-klux-klan-warns-race-war-if-*****-wins-news-international-jegv8yeajcg.html

Glenn Beck won't be helping marching about in his **** uniform on his latest book either.

To say there are 10-20 million radical ******s in europe routinely preaching hatred is pretty ignorant. I have seen these guys and we give them abuse at our mosques.

Then because they withdraw to the net when we try to clean up our mosques we have groups going around saying Islam is fascism in Europe. Banning Islamic dress in Europe and this is causing friction.

I'm amongst those who don't want these people to grow and we are in the majority in the ****** community but idiots marching around saying No More Mosques and Ban The Burkha in our neighbourhoods are not helping.

******s are busy kicking the *******s out of their community and we are beiong attacked by more esxtremists who want to wipe us all out.

Who do we listen to?

Our common sense says do whats right.

The extremists are ****ing with our religon **** them. **** the Taliban.

The extremists want to ban our mosques and dress, **** them. **** the ****s.

[Patrick Kehoe]

Bernard hopkins was shot down very much just a few days after 9/11. It was good to see a ****** warrior dismantle felix trinidad, by mentally breaking him down.

The amount of **** thrown at bernard hopkins during the build up to that fight was disgusting. If anything Hopkins was the good guy in that fight, not trinidad.

++ What? Hopkins, the good guy? That's original, I'll give you that.

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[Patrick Kehoe]

++ Khan is well liked by the boxing scribes I know in England, at least... if he just keeps winning as he's currently doing, all will work out for him... the money, the fame, the adulation shall be his, more and more so!

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I've acknowledged that there's an unfortunate race issue with Amir, For some reason the British dont like the kid because of his color. Even Khan himself said "If I were a white British fighter, Id be a superstar".

So my question to the British is if Amir Khan was white would you like him more?

I hate to say it but the UK seems like its not at the same level as the US when it comes to race relations and tolerance, Heck just look at the US president.

American fans are pure boxing fans. They dont bring prejudice into the boxing arena. For instance Manny is oriental yet he gets great support in america. That would never ever happen in britain. Only place manny would get support in the UK is in china town or Chinese restaurant.


That being said I know that Britian is a very divided country, There is no such thing as "British", You are either English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or a derogatory term for anything else. Perhaps the problem the UK faces is that they have been unable to define a national identity. For instance in the US there are Italian-Americans, ***ish-Americans, Arab-Americans, African-Americans, Latino-Americans....But are all still Americans.

[kdee]

Just look at history of Britains colonialism, slavery etc and how institutionalized racism and white extremism(bnp) is still in society and the answer is easier than 2+2. But there are also very good people who are FAR from prejudiced. USA, even through all the bad things in the past, is definitely further ahead