To:    vanessa@bbc.co.uk
Re:    Ethnic minority representation on British TV
Date:  Monday 14 August 06

Dear Julia (Ms Botfield),

 It is refreshing to hear people finally talking (on the BBC of all places!) about the disproportionate number of ethnic minority (especially black and mixed-race) people appearing on our TV screens, especially on the BBC and even more especially on its children's programmes.

The ideology behind this, of course, although no one dares mention it, is that of the "melting pot" (the blurring and erasure of racial distinctions as a means of eradicating racism and advancing the cause of globalization). Britain's "hideously white" and still dominant native European population is to be increasingly replaced by people of mixed-race and by non-European immigrants (most of whom it is assumed will in time become mixed-race as well). According to this ideology, race doesn't matter (even its existence is questioned), and anyone (or rather, any white person) who thinks or feels otherwise is a "racist".
 
Far from increasing racial and cultural diversity, as claimed (except temporarily at the beginning of the process, which is where we are at the moment), the melting pot will greatly reduce and ultimately destroy them, all human diversity being the result of populations having been isolated in the past.
 
At the moment, all discussion of this vitally important subject is suppressed as "racist".
 
This will (has to) change. And the sooner the better.
 
 
 



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