RACE WAR POLITICS

Evil can take many forms. Sometimes it is open and obvious, such as the recent terrorist bombings in London. Sometimes it is more insidious.

In an article for the Daily Mail this last Monday Trevor Philips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), set out his stall for a continuation of the British Inquisition and race war politics.

He started off with a denunciation of the terrorist bombings: ‘The murderers who attacked London are serial killers’.

This is fair enough. But he soon showed his communist convictions:

‘There are no bonds of solidarity against oppression, no common fight against racism or Islamophobia that can justify turning a blind eye to evidence that could help to catch the perpetrators of these acts. Indeed, we should never imagine that the bombers gave a second’s thought to the suffering of minority Londoners’.

This is just the sort of race war diatribe that has contributed to the present crisis. This is the UK and not apartheid South Africa (which, incidentally, also had an immigration problem despite apartheid). He fixes it in peoples’ minds that there is widespread racism and Islamophobia and that minorities are ‘suffering’.

This is phony, hysterical bunkum.

But he continued:

‘Our victory will be to achieve...an integrated society. But it won’t happen without some positive effort. Already the Commission for Racial Equality has received reports of incidents which to most of us might seem trivial, but which to our experts are early signs of a dangerous division. For example, a noisy Tube carriage falls silent when a young man with a rucksack and a copy of the Koran boards a train; a bus driver refuses to stop for a lone Asian woman waiting at her regular stop. None of these incidents is a major act of prejudice. Indeed, in the light of last week, the fears behind them are understandable. But hundreds of such incidents are the fuel for suspicion, which left to themselves fester into bigotry and harden into prejudice’.

When he refers to ‘our experts’, he does of course mean race zealots who are employed by the state and whose jobs depend on there being allegations of racism. One should not forget Parkinson’s Law, which states that the amount of work to do will increase to employ the numbers employed to do it. The more race ‘experts’ there are, the more racism they will allege there is.

These allegations Mr Philips refers to are as astonishing as they are petty. The bomb attacks took place on Thursday and Mr Philips’s article is in Monday’s edition of the Daily Mail. Even if he wrote the article on the Sunday and these alleged incidents took place on the Friday, then that does not leave much time for them to be reported back to the CRE, let alone Mr Philips personally. Certainly the Royal Mail would have struggled to turn it around, and it is a surprise that the CRE is open during the weekend to receive allegations of racism.

Is the CRE itself the source of the allegations? Is there a network of race informers ready to text, email or telephone allegations of racism 24 hours a day? Whatever the answer, Mr Philips has had no time to verify such allegations at all.

How the alleged man with a rucksack and waving a copy of the Koran knew that the carriage was noisy before he boarded is not explained. The London underground was badly disrupted, London itself much quieter than usual on the Friday, and those in above-ground train carriages are mostly sat down (often asleep on long journeys) and not looking to see who is entering the train at every stop. Underground carriages are often packed and there is little conversation.

Most Muslims can manage to board a train without a copy of the Koran to brandish at people.

The previous English Rights Campaign blogs of the 19th and 20th June, both quoting from former CRE Asian members who were writing in 2001 (and whose concerns have been proven to be more predictive and more reliable than anything from Mr Philips), set out a very different analysis of the problem of race, and were critical of both the CRE and the whole multicultural experiment. The only reason why Mr Philips’s views prevail, is because he is an unelected quangocrat (on £94,000 per annum for a 4 day week) and the CRE is completely unaccountable.

Mr Philips, who is one of Tony’s cronies, has a long history regarding race. He was chairman of the Runnymede Trust when it produced a report which denounced the term ‘British’ as racist. In 1999 he called for Britain to introduce a South African style Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where police officers and others would be offered immunity from prosecution if they confessed to past racism.

He has further criticised the London Assembly, the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish parliament for being virtually ‘whites-only’ bodies, and he further supported Greg Dyke when the BBC director-general condemned the organisation as being ‘hideously white’.

Since Mr Philips was chosen by Tony Blair in January 2003 to head the CRE in the face of all this, then Mr Blair cannot dodge responsibility for Mr Philips’s actions. Mr Blair knew exactly what he was doing.

Mr Philips is advocating for a continuation of the British Inquisition and of race war politics, both of which are evil. He is still peddling the notion that ethnic minorities are victims of white (ie English) racism and oppression. He believes that the race zealots of the CRE are the ‘experts’ who should be deciding matters, rather than relying upon elected politicians or the disinterested common sense of ordinary people.

As the English Rights Campaign has already pointed out, the sooner the CRE is abolished the better. The need for its abolition is becoming desperate.