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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