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To: Daily
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| In response to article "It's
not racist to worry about immigration" by Jeff Randall (link
to aricle and comments at Telegraph website). I notice that Jeff Randell is careful to emphasize white immigration from Europe and that it's about numbers, not race. Why can't we admit that for many of us it is also about race and the rapidly changing ethnic composition of this country's population? Whether 100 Poles move into your town or 100 Bangladeshis or black Africans isn't supposed to make any difference - and to suggest that it does would almost certainly be condemned as "racist". But it DOES make a difference, and we urgently need to be able to talk about it, instead of being forced to suppress our true feelings (most native's general preference for fellow Europeans - not necessarily as individuals, but as an ethnic group - with whom they share much the same ethnicity, as well as their common European culture, history, and even prehistory), which won't cease to exist, but remain nagging in our subconscious, where one day some demagogue may tap into and make real, nasty, racism of them. How are we going to cultivate and maintain the bonds with our ancestors, our history and prehistory, which stretch back to the Neolithic, when an ever increasing proportion of our population have no (or few) roots which go back further than the middle of the 20th Century? How do you relate to the roots of European civilization in ancient Greece, Rome and medieval Europe when you are not (or only partially) an ethnic European? P.S. It took the Telegraph's comment page editors almost a whole day to publish mine and other comments posted after the 1st of June, when Jeff Randell's article was published, and then they decided to censor, i.e. delete, my final paragraph. So much for their respect for freedom of expression! It's not the first time it's happened, either. The only reason I bother to comment on any of their articles is because I can publish them here on my own website. http://www.spaceship-earth.org |
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