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From: Gavin Coles
GvnCls@aol.com
Re: Taking stock: Do some of the questions on the national censors have racist assumptions?
Date: 18 April 2001
 
SIR - In your excellent leader on the census you ask where the liberal voices of protest are [Census and insensibility, Leader, 13 April 2001].

You may be interested to know that I have struck through the question on race, and written on it "I refuse to answer racist questions". I spent a lot of time when I was younger living in Africa, Arabia and India, and while I was there I mixed a lot with the locals.

Never once did they make me feel 'white'. I don't see why I should now be made to feel 'white' back in my home country. Perhaps the liberal voices of protest are, like myself, tired of wasting words on the brick walls of official ignorance.