To: vanessa@bbc.co.uk
(Vanessa Feltz Show, BBC Radio London) |
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In response to Vanessa Feltz call for
responses to the suggestion that measures be taken to
"desegregate" London's schools.
At a racially and culturally mixed school, what you have is a
hot "melting pot" which will accelerate the
dissolution and disappearance of racial and cultural differences
in the larger "melting pot" of multi-racial/multi-cultural society
that is now London.
If that is what you want, desegregation is a great idea. But not
everyone does. Some of us,
at least, want to retain and cultivate our own racial, cultural
and historical differences and identities. We do not want to
dissolve into the melting pot of a concocted and thoroughly
superficial sense of "Britishness" so that government, the media
and other vested interests can continue to
manipulate and exploit us. If you will excuse my
oversimplification; it is much more complicated, I know, and far
less clear cut than just being a matter of "us" and "them".
At the moment, those amongst the native population
who don't want it are kept quiet by the fear of being accused
of "racism" - a subtle and remarkably effective form or tyranny
that one would hardly have thought possible in our supposedly so
enlightened, free and democratic times.
The idea (or rather, ideology) of the "melting pot" of
multi-racial/multi-cultural society has been imported, like so
much else, from America, where conditions are very different to
Europe. The original American "melting pot" was of European
immigrants (Englishmen, Frenchmen, Irishmen, Germans, Italians,
Jews, Poles, Russians etc.) and it worked very well (notwithstanding the loss
of much linguistic and cultural diversity), because ethnically they were
all very similar (barely distinguishable) and shared
a great deal of European history and culture,
including the Judeo-Christian religion. The same "melting
pot" ideology was then applied to all immigrants, as well as to
the "native American" population, irrespective of their ethnic,
cultural and historical backgrounds, and, after a civil war and
civil rights struggle, to African Americans as well.
However, with African Americans the American "melting pot"
manifestly does not work (although officially no one will admit
it), not least, because the majority of European Americans (and
I suspect, Asian Americans too) don't want it to. Why?
Not principally, as we are supposed to believe,
because they are racists (some may be, but not the vast
majority), but because mixing undermines the racial, cultural and historical identity that
European Americans feel amongst themselves and with their
relatives and ancestors in Europe.
If this sense of identity amongst European (or any other ethnic
group of) Americans were allowed to develop and express itself,
publicly at least, it would undermine national identity and
unity, and with them, the American state and all the
power structures and vested interests associated with it. So,
despite its existence and importance, if a sense
of European ethnic identity raises its head in
public it is condemned as "racism". The myth of a common,
overarching, ethnically irrelevant American identity is insisted
upon, and woe betide anyone who dares question it.
The fundamental contradictions and failings (I call it
MADNESS)
of the "melting pot" are denied or ignored in the interests of
"national unity" and those who profit from it,
particularly in politics and the media, but also
in business and the military. And with the media on
board, it is very difficult indeed to oppose. Anyone who does is
simply dismissed as a "racist".
Insanely, Western Europe (i.e. its political leaders and public
opinion makers, driven by their economies' need for cheap labour,
the harebrained, Christian/Marxist ideology
of universalism,
and perhaps the desire to occupy an imagined
or politically opportune "moral high ground")
has chosen, yet again, to follow America's example, allowing
(often inviting) millions of immigrants into their already
overpopulated countries for the purpose of creating
a multi-racial/multi-cultural melting
pot. Such MADNESS beggars belief, especially on
the scale it has now reached in cities like London, but like other "insanities of
normality" it goes, not unnoticed, but unrecognised for
the madness it is, as we
wrestle with and attempt to deny or rationalize the dire consequences
as they press upon us more and more.
Referring to ethnic Europeans, as some do, as "stupid white men" is a bit of an understatement. We are dumb beyond belief - so maybe it is just as well if we do disappear into the melting pot of mixed racial and cultural homogeneity. But I cannot help feeling desparately sad at the thought and of losing that incredible diversity of native European peoples (even and including European Americans and Australians) to which I myself belong and with which I identify, not with ALL, but with a very large part of my heart. |
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