London, Monday, April 23, 2001

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Letters to the Editor

Tories must stop apologising and fight against inverted racism

SIR -- While your criticism of William Hague and Michael Ancram (leading article, April21) is welcome, it should be asked: why have they fallen into the CRE'S trap?

In the 1960s and 1970s, The Daily Telegraph published articles by me demolishing the intellectual basis for mass immigration. Since then, there has been intellectual regression. Portmanteau words such as "racial prejudice" and the weaselly "multiculturalism" have been allowed to obscure the issue.

The term "racism" comes from the United States, where it describes treatment meted out to Americans of African descent, linked with a theory of their inferiority. In Britain it is now used to denounce anything to which the user objects.

Our middle-class intellectuals' endemic self-hatred -- dubbed by George Orwell in 1945 as "negative nationalism" -- has now mutated into inverted racism. Immigrant minority communities are encouraged to demand privileges on grounds of numerical parity, ignoring the consideration that the English are a great nation whereas the immigrant communities stem from backward countries. They are encouraged to form organisations such as societies of black lawyers and black policemen -- racialist categories if ever there were.

"British" schoolchildren 2001

The Commission for Racial Equality manifesto promises to "improve race relations". According to immigrationists, this entails virtually an open door to immigrant and so-called asylum-seekers, meaning those who would rather live here than among their own nations. Yet increasing numbers would inexorably increase tensions.

Surely the way to improve relations would be for immigrant organisations to express gratitude to the English for allowing them the inestimable privilege of living in this civilised country, whose superiority to their own explains their continued pressures to colonise it. Gratitude in place of endless complaints is the only way to improve race relations. Conservatives should cease to be apologetic, and take the offensive against inverted racism.

Sir Alfred Sherman
London SW7