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Dear
Sir/Madam,
Simply blaming New Labour for the drift to the BNP, as you do in last Sunday's editorial, is unfair. What is happening now in Barking and causing a stir, happened in other parts of London and Britain years ago with just a whimper, because people were too intimidated by the threat of being called "racist" if they objected. When my father complained to his local Labour party about the number of immigrants settling in the London borough of Brent in the 1970s he was told that he was being "racist" even bringing the matter up.
I told my father not to worry about
it - that a few immigrants would brighten the place up a bit,
but had no idea, back then, that a small minority of
immigrants would become a large majority (to suggest that we
were being "swamped" was forbidden as "racist" rhetoric, but
looking back, that is exactly what happened). Visiting Wembley
High Road recently and my old primary school I had a job
picking out the odd white face amongst the crowds of black and
Asian people. It is difficult to describe how it made me feel,
returning to where I'd grown up in the 1950's and 60's, the
roads and buildings still the same and so familiar, but the
people completely changed - not just a different generation,
but a different race and culture, and speaking a cacophony of
different languages. Perhaps we are getting our just
desserts, I thought, as white men, learning how native
Americans, Australians and New Zealanders must have felt
seeing their countries being taken over by Europeans.
What I certainly didn't feel was
any urge to celebrate "multiculturalism". I felt confused,
sad, and then angry - not at the black and Asian children now
dominating my old school playground, or at their parents in
the High Street (I don't blame them for taking advantage of
the opportunities offered to them), but at my own people
(stupid white men and women) in positions of power and
authority in politics and the media, who for the sake of
a
harebrained ideology (multiculturalism having replaced the
failed cause of the "classless society"), economics, or simple
opportunism, embarked on this unprecedented social experiment,
in which the well-intended but totally misconceived leftwing
ideology of multiculturalism has allied itself with
free-market capitalism's need for cheap, mobile labour.
And still we are not permitted to
question what has happened and is continuing to happen. Native
Britons (not just native East Enders) have every reason to be
very angry, but anger is immediately interpreted, dismissed or
condemned as an expression of "racism".
We need to look at the (social)
psychology of the ideology of multiculturalism, since there is
a striking similarity with medieval Christian ideology
(theology) and, more recently, Communist ideology, both of
which, like that of multiculturalism were imposed from above
by an intellectual elite. Anyone who objected wasn't argued
with, but simply damned and condemned as a heretic, a
reactionary, and now, a "racist".
I suppose we have to be thankful
that no one - so far, at least - has been burned at the stake
or shot, but who knows if that will not become necessary in
future, in order to ensure conformity, maintain social order
and the positions of those in power and authority. Time will
tell, but the best hope we have of avoiding such developments
is to face up to the current intimidation, break the taboo,
and speak out honestly about how we really FEEL, containing
our anger, least it be construed as "racist", and without
giving deliberate or unnecessary offence. Although, some
offence is unavoidable when one is honest. For example, many
people are horrified at the thought of their children marrying
out of their ethnic group. To avoid giving offence, we deny
how we feel, and certainly don't talk about it. But sometimes
it cannot be avoided. When it's members of an ethnic minority
who say openly that they don't want their children marrying
out, its frowned upon but tolerated; when it's members of the
white ethnic majority, however, it's condemned as "racism".
The irony is that, far from
increasing human diversity (which arose as a result of human
populations being essentially isolated in the past),
multiculturalism, after creating a flash of increased
diversity as a wide range of combinations of race and culture
emerge, will lead over time to a racially and culturally mixed
but increasingly homogenous society, as distinctive (native)
races and cultures are gobbled up.
If we want to maintain human
diversity (racial, cultural and linguistic), we have to
cultivate it. If intermarriage is encourage, while "not
marrying out" is frowned upon or condemned as "racist", our
wonderfully diverse society will be irretrievably lost. Put
bluntly, we are on our way to becoming a nation of mixed
culture and of mixed-race people (creoles). Not that there is
anything wrong with people of mixed race (far from it), but if
we love diversity, we don't want everyone becoming mixed-race.
For honesty's sake, I must add here that it is not just my
love of diversity that concerns me, but also, and quite
passionately, my love for my own European race (of stupid
white men and women), with which I identify strongly.
Now that anyone with a British
passport, of any race or culture, qualifies as being
"British", it no longer has any meaning for me. I don't FEEL
any sense of belonging or identity with, or loyalty towards,
multiracial/multicultural Britain. I meet and interact with
people as individuals, whatever their origins, but the people
I belong to, with whom (for better or for worse) I identify as
a group, are native (ethnic) Britons and Europeans.
I know that I'm not supposed to
feel like this and that some will call me a "racist" for
admitting that I do, but it IS the way I FEEL. I don't hate
other races or cultures or believe my own to be superior, so I
know that I'm not really a racist, anymore than those burned
at the stake in the middle ages where in league with the
devil, or most of those shot by Stalin as reactionaries and
counter-revolutionaries were bad people. They were just people
who suffered for opposing or questioning the dominant ideology
of the time, and with it the legitimacy of those in positions
of power and authority, along with all those (at all levels of
society) who depend on them.
This has turned out to be rather a
long letter, so you might like to consider publishing it
(after a bit of polish, perhaps) as an article in your comment
and opinion section.
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