To:    stletters@telegraph.co.uk
Re:    Heretics, counter-revolutionaries and racists
Date:  Friday 21 April 06

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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