Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

A racist society? What is it like to live in a multicultural society when you are a member of an ethnic minority? For some people, it means a personal struggle against racism. Read the newspaper article from the “Observer”. Discuss whether what happened to Carl Josephs is simply bad luck or an example of racism. 20 According to the newspaper article, which of the following sentences are true, false or not given? 21 true false not given 1 Carl Josephs never breaks the law. 2 He has been arrested more than once. 3 He is nervous when he is in his car. 4 Mr Josephs is a criminal. 5 His lawyer has many other cases like Carl’s. 6 He wants the police to admit they were wrong. 7 The radio station he works for supports him. 8 The police will say in court that they were right to stop him. 9 Carl Josephs has changed his opinion about the police. Carl Josephs is so honest he has never even had a fine for parking. Nevertheless, the 25-year-old caterer and part-time Birmingham radio DJ has been stopped by the police at least 35 times in the last two years. He has been made to produce his driving documents on 12 occasions and been arrested three times. One day last year, Mr Josephs was stopped on his way to work, on his way home and on his way out that evening. He does not even drive a flash car, although it does have Bob Marley stickers on the side. He says the police have made him a nervous wreck every time he gets behind the wheel of his car. As Mr Josephs sees it, his “crime” is to be black. And his patience has finally run out. He has taken the West Midlands police to court for harassment. Yesterday, Mr Josephs spoke of his treatment by the police. “It is making me lose my self-respect. Every time I get stopped, people see me and think I must have done something wrong. They don’t stay long enough to find out I haven’t,” he said. “This case is not about getting money from the police, it is about getting them to agree that what they have been doing is wrong and about getting them to stop. They cannot believe there is a black man without a criminal record.” A spokesman for the West Midlands police agreed that Mr Josephs had been stopped on numerous occasions, but said the police would defend the case. They will insist that officers were only doing their job every time they pulled Mr Josephs over. Latest figures show that more than a third of the searches the police did in the West Midlands were of people from ethnic minorities, who make up only about 10 per cent of the area’s population. Mr Josephs said: “I don’t get angry and I don’t get bitter because that would play into their hands. But I am very sorry to say that I have lost all respect for the police. This is no joke! I work, pay my taxes. I just want to get on with my life. This is messing it up.” that would play into their hands: das würde ihnen in die Karten spielen/gelegen kommen The Observer Tuesday, January 12 87 4 Extensive unit 4: Multicultural Britain Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv