Fatima Parker on BBC1 TV's Nicky Campbell the Big Question show part1

[afrotastic101]

gotta LOVE the irony in her name...

[xxxanup]

i hate fat people

[xxxanup]

@1Thompsonmusic i love you

[Wallyrus]

(Cont'd)... and on the flip side, every person whom he could describe as being "healthy and successful" is, by definition, a *better* person than somebody whom he would describe as being "unhealthy and unsuccessful". In his world, no wealthy CEO or politician gets to where they are because of advantages inherited from their parents and a person's health isn't determined by anything other than their will power.

[Wallyrus]

"Personal Responsibility" is the same cop-out that main character Nick Naylor gives in the movie "Thank You For Smoking"(2005) to justify the sale of a product that kills people. This is greed fueled apathy, plain and simple. Conservatives of the stripe and colour as this Kelvin MacKenzie HAVE to believe that we live in a just universe. In their worldview, if somebody has some disadvantage in life it is because they must have done something to deserve it.

[slayyyyn]

fatty fatima

[Dipstikk]

@slayyyyn Hahaha, do you expect anyone to be upset at that comment? I applaud the effort. Given that this is what you consider worth hitting the post button for, I imagine it took you quite a while to come up with that.

[1Thompsonmusic]

@slayyyyn

Very good.

[zanderzander05]

why would anyone want to be fat?

[ImpKicker]

I love how only one person claps for the old guy in the nice suit. I also love how more people acknowledge and agree with the arguments about economic status being tied to weight, and how this issue isn't as simple as people might assume it is, that we can't chalk it up to such narrow concepts as "gluttony" or "self control." If we really want answers, we need to stop treating this topic like one big fat joke. I've been saying that all along, and people are finally getting it.

[thegreatlady888]

@ImpKicker It is people who have no health knowledge who tell us all about our health, in that tone of superiority that people take against fat they are trying desperately to stay in the upper group by putting us down.

[eselle1955]

Thank you for going on that show. Thank you for being a voice for people of size. Thank you for being brave in the face of their socially sanctioned prejudice.

[thegreatlady888]

@eselle1955 You are welcome and thank you for your support.

[thegreatlady888]

Thank you Xhersize

[xhersize]

You go Fatima!! You totally rock!!

[thegreatlady888]

@xhersize Thank you Hersize very much.