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Dear
Sir/Madam,
Please remove
(very
politely,
because it's
not
his
fault or
mistake) the
gentleman with
the broad
Jamaican
accent from
your team
of continuity
announcers.
You wouldn't
dream of
giving the job
to someone
with such a
broad British
regional
accent, so why
someone with a
Jamaican one,
which isn't
even British?
I'm afraid that I can guess what the answer is: you cannot show us a black face on the radio, so you have to give us a (distinctly) black voice instead to make up for it. Call me a "little Englander", or even a "racist" if you want, but I'm sick and tired (as are a lot of other people) of having the BBC's institutional and fanatically ideological multiculturalism forced down my throat – all the more so since I'm also forced to pay for it, or would be if I wasn't living with my 78-year old mother. Just as our ethnic minorities sometimes like to be amongst themselves (naturally enough) so too (wicked racists that we are!) do many British Natives, where we can relax and be ourselves and not have to worry about offending someone with a different ethnic or cultural heritage, or about being too white or not being inclusive enough. We already have an "Asian Network" for our largest ethnic minority, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask for a "Native Network " for the native, ethnic majority, comprising at least one - preferably more - radio and TV channels, where we can indulge our “hideously white " interests and listen, for example, to old, unedited versions of the Goon Show. P.S. No, I am not a member or sympathiser of the BNP! Far from it. I'm just a British Native who is not ashamed, but in fact, quite proud of being white.
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