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| StraightDrive... |
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http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/28/stories/2009102851830900.htm
"This is my country, where do you want me to go?" asks Indian immigrant's
son
Hasan Suroor
Ultimately it was a simple question from an Indian immigrant's British-born
and bred son that had Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National
Party (BNP) stumped during his controversial appearance on BBC's flagship
current affairs programme Question Time last week.
While Mr. Griffin's high-profile co-panellists (three leading political
figures, including a senior cabinet minister, and a prominent playwright)
argued over the details of BNP's fascist agenda, Khush Klare, a young
professional from north London whose parents moved from India to Britain in
the 1960s, had a basic question for him: "Where do you want me to go? I was
born in this country. I love this country." And, then, suggested that it was
actually people like Mr. Griffin who needed to be packed off to some
"colourless" planet.
"You would be surprised," he told Mr. Griffin as the studio audience
clapped, "how many people would have a whip-round to buy you a ticket and
your supporters... to go to the South Pole. That's a colourless landscape,
it would suit you fine."
Mr. Griffin's stuttering attempt to justify his party's absurd policy which
calls for wholesale repatriation of immigrants to their countries of origin
was greeted with boos and jeers.
Mr. Klare's question would have resonated with every second generation
non-white Briton - indeed with all minorities (immigrants or not) caught up
in the majoritarian rhetoric of "us" and "them." It lies at the heart of the
identity crisis that afflicts many among the second and third generation
immigrants and which then leads to alienation - and often worse. Where can
people like Mr. Klare whose parents or grandparents may have come from
another part of the world but who were born and brought up in Britain and
know of no other country they can call home go?
Mr. Griffin, of course, is an extreme racist but even high-minded liberals
suffer from the "outsider-insider" syndrome. A question that almost every
non-white Briton must have faced at some point is: "Where do you come from?"
And when they say "London" or "Manchester" or "Leicester," the questioner
persists: "Yes, but where do you come from...which country?"
A friend who did research on the subject for a book found that somewhere at
the back of nearly native white Briton's mind was this idea of immigrant as
an outsider.
In a sense, Mr. Griffin and his boys are a symptom of a deeper problem that
the liberal London elite is loathe to acknowledge - namely covert racism
that, despite a raft of anti-racist and equality laws, exists at all levels
of British society. A new government survey, based on a sting operation
targeting hundreds of employers across the country, found that job
applicants with foreign-sounding names faced widespread discrimination.
Researchers discovered that candidates with Asian/African names were turned
down in favour of white applicants with similar qualifications and
experience.
"They found that an applicant who appeared to be white would send nine
applications before receiving a positive response . Minority candidates with
the same qualifications and experience had to send 16 applications before
receiving a similar response," The Observer reported quoting employment
minister Jim Knight as admitting the "shocking scale" of racial
discrimination revealed by the survey.
On all social indicators - poverty, unemployment, education - whites are
better-off. And, on the face of it, "white discontent" that the BNP taps
into is a "puzzle," as The Economist pointed out. Yet it would be
disingenuous to pretend that "white discontent" is purely a BNP invention.
Sections of white working class, especially in the former manufacturing
towns, do live in great poverty and feel neglected by the mainstream
political establishment.
By settling asylum-seekers in some of the most deprived white areas the
government has ended up exacerbating racial tensions. For, when unemployed
white youths, trapped in kitchen-sink estates, see newly-arrived immigrants
given houses and benefits they see red accusing them of "stealing" benefits
that they say ought to have gone to them.
Enter Mr. Griffin posing as their saviour. He tells them that their plight
is all down to "foreigners" and neither the government nor opposition
parties are bothered about them. Only the BNP understands their concerns and
is willing to help.
Liberal Democrat leader Chris Huhne, who appeared with Mr. Griffin on
Question Time, correctly called it the "scapegoat politics" which saw Mr.
Griffin's fascist predecessors blame the Jews in the 1930s, and Africans in
the 1960s.
The BNP's electoral success (it got nearly one million votes in the European
Parliament elections earlier this year and won two seats) is a result of a
combination of racism; the government's failure to acknowledge, let alone
address, white working class concerns; and of course right-wing propaganda.
Simply dismissing Mr. Griffin and his supporters as the "looney fringe" or
hoping that ultimately British "commonsense" will prevail is not the answer.
The unpalatable fact is that the BNP has significant electoral support which
is what led the BBC to put Mr. Griffin on one of its most programmes; and
this support has a basis in ``white discontent" even if it is exaggerated.
As one commentator warned if political parties continue to ``write off"
sections of the electorate then there is no stopping groups like the BNP. |
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| StraightDrive... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:51 pm |
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"Trust No OneŽ" <dana.scully at (no spam) usa.xnet> wrote in message
news:7krc7bF3bhivbU1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net...
See a shrink like the westernfucks usually do for every simple problem in
their pathetic lives.......It will help you to deal with this OT post on
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| Robert Henderson... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:00 am |
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In message <hc8rtn$rvq$1 at (no spam) aioe.org>, StraightDrive
<StraightDrive at (no spam) Tendulkar.com> writes
Quote: Robert Henderson
In the 1960s one of the most celebrated British sit-coms Till Death Us Do
Part appeared. Its central character was an elderly working class Londoner
Alf Garnett (For American readers his character inspired that of Archie
Bunker).
--
Robert Henderson
I have NO TIME to READ your "WhiteSpeak".
Translation: subcontinental displays the average subcontinental IQ ...
RH
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Robert Henderson
Personal website: http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk |
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