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Dear Mr Scott,
After reading
your article
in today's
Guardian (Sacrifice
of a
generation),
I
cannot help
noticing,
and remarking,
that there is
not a single
prosperous
black state
anywhere in
the world, not
in Africa, the
West Indies or
anywhere else;
which is why,
of course, so
many black
people have
emigrated to
or sought
asylum in
Britain and
other European
countries,
creating all
the problems
that go with
mixing people
of different
race and
culture. It is
also why black
people - as a
group rather
than as
individuals
- are not
respected in
the way that
other peoples
are, who have
created
prosperous
societies of
their own
(e.g.
Israelis,
Japanese,
Chinese,
Koreans).
When black
people are
"successful"
it is
virtually
always within
societies that
are
essentially,
because
historically,
white, which
makes them
beholden to
that white
society.
Having "made
it" in the
white man's
world, people
like Trevor
Philips - with
the best of
intentions,
I'm sure -
preach to
their fellow
blacks on how
they too can
be successful
in a
white
man's
world. But
maybe, just
maybe, what
most black
people really
need is their
OWN society to
be successful
in, making use
of Western
science and
technology,
like everyone
else, of
course, but
deeply rooted
in their own
African
origins. We
are always
being told
that skin
colour is
irrelevant,
except to
"racists", but
that is not
true. It is a
genetic marker
which
indicates a
person's
geographical
and ancestral
origins. If
that is not
important, I
do not know
what is!
Europeans are
still under
shock from the
Nazi
experience,
with its
insane and
criminal
misuse of the
concept of
race, which
has taken many
of them to the
opposite
extreme of
denying that
race has any
significance
at all. But it
manifestly has
a great deal
of
significance,
which
eventually we
will have to
face up to
- hopefully,
in a humane
and
enlightened
fashion.
I want to see
black people
(people of
African
descent)
succeed, along
with all the
other peoples
of the world.
I also want to
retain racial
diversity, and
my own racial
identity (as a
"stupid white
man"). So
please, stop
sucking up to
white men (as
you have to
when you live
in their
society) and
complaining
when they are
less than
welcoming
towards you,
and create
your OWN
independent
society
(societies).
That way, we
might hope to
create a truly
diverse,
humane, just
and
sustainable
world, which
we certainly
won't do by
continuing on
the current,
well-intended
but grossly
misconceived
path
of
multi-racialism
and multi-culturalism.
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