I wrote a few lines in passing a few months ago. Excuse my repeating them, but they might have been profound. They were about the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of 1968.
Everyone knows Enoch Powell made an immediate political mistake in using this sort of language. It did the opposite of what he intended. Instead of acting as a warning of something happening out there, it was taken by everyone to be a warning of something happening in here, in our minds: the beginnings of a heightened sensitivity to the possibility that we might be racist.
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I’m old enough to have played club cricket a few years after “Big G” (Sir Garfield Sobers) had played as pro for a local club in the 1960’s.
Witness this interview with the great man as testament to the spirit of cricket (and society) in a bygone age (sound starts after 15 seconds):
https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-21041964-garfield-sobers-joins-norton-cricket-club
Back then, we young local cricketers were in awe of one of the two most talented men ever to play the game (along with Bradman). Genius orders of magnitude beyond the Gaussian distribution.
All old timers who’d survived Big G longer than a few balls could recall, was a pair of athletic shoulders swivelling through the run up and the ball more often than not hissing into the keeper’s gloves.
The Racism Industry had yet to take off. For the record, industry leaders, we’re all cognitively biased, including you. And while you’re at it, look up Cecil Abrahams and Basil D’Oliveira.
The only racism is anti-White racism.
The only phobia I see is Christophobia.
Does racism include pointing out that Black Musulman Nigerians murder on average, 5000 Black Nigerian Christians every year? 80 odd Church buildings burnt down by the Muhammandans each year. Often priests and laity are burnt inside. Sex slavery rampant.
Is that racist too? Or is the above caused by ‘climate change’? Is that what ‘AI’ says?
Why does the author assume that “experts” are truly interested in “reducing racism”.
I think articles that refer to “racism” without defining what the author means by the term and what other meanings the author thinks are commonly understood by various groups using the term, are largely pointless.
Anyway, so bloody what if we are “racist” as a people or a nation? It’s our country, or at least it was.
I’m much more interested in exploring the origins and motivation and people and organisations behind anti-white racism.
Racism was invented by “experts” and activists to justify their existence.
The government is certainly not interested in reducing racism.
They love it divide et impera.
As true now as ever was.
I judge people according to what they say and do. If they’re pleasant to talk to (whether or not they agree with all my views), that’s good. If they show kindness and thoughtfulness towards others, that’s good. If they’re employed and do their job well, that’s good. If they’re intelligent and knowledgeable, that’s good. If they’re talented in art, entertainment or sport, that’s good. If that makes me a racist, so be it.
“Racist” has come to mean all sorts of things to all sorts of people. I don’t think it’s a useful word. Of course it’s very useful to some people – people who want to shut down discussion.
And speaking of shutting down discussion, I agree with Lee Hurst here;
”I don’t like Islam.
Muslims, I treat them as I find them, like anyone I meet. There will be good ones and bad ones they are people just like any others.
Islam however is a political ideology that, if it were run by white working class men, would be deemed fascist and rightly so.
Therefore, just like fascism and communism, I don’t like Islam and no proposed law will change my view on that.”
https://x.com/LeeHurstComic/status/1887041934440448031
I tend to agree with him.
Yes yes yes, that.
I think more people were racist years ago than they are nowadays, by a long way. I remember some of my nana and granda’s remarks when Top of the Pops was on and a ‘person of colour’ popped up were very cringey indeed. But this was a generation thing, I think, because people weren’t well-traveled, generally, and most parts of England were very homogenous compared to now, especially where I grew up in the North East. So many older people probably went most of their lives never encountering anyone who looked different to them, well, apart from when the corner shops were taken over by the obligatory Pakistanis. I guess kebab shops and taxi driving weren’t such big business in the 1980s;
”Modern Brits should not fixate on the rise of sundry skin pigments among them or names that not long ago would have seemed exotic—even if such things have contributed to the disruption of their particular way of life. What Brits should be worried about is the eclipsing of that way of life, which was always expressed in its institutions, whose existence in turn protected and conserved that way of life. What we have now is not a way of life, but many parallel ways of life—largely caused by implementing the ‘values’ of multiculturalism and diversity—which the institutions have been co-opted into protecting. The institutions, therefore, are corrupted and must be brought back to a state of health, that they may achieve their purpose, namely conserving the way of life that brought them into being.
The visible transformation of Britain’s ancient cities and towns into settlements for alien populations is bad enough.
To walk down an English high street and hear every language and accent except those that belong to these isles is now very common. But that is nothing compared to the much darker side of this deconstruction of our way of life: English girls offered up by our corrupted institutions to the insatiable appetites of conquering hordes of Moguls. If anything should awaken the people of these isles from their slumber of indolence and defeatism, it should be the torture and rape of their daughters. And if that’s not sufficient to stir them to action in defence of their way of life—which begins and ends with the recapture of their institutions—then this ancient kingdom deserves its bleak future.
‘Values’ are not going to salvage the United Kingdom, which—as I say—on its current trajectory probably has under a decade left before it entirely slips into the abyss. The reform and recovery of our institutions is what is desperately needed, and that means filling them with good men and women who have not only inducted themselves into our way of life, but who will do all they can to protect that way of life. That all means, of course, a future with a very, very different kind of elite.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/institutions-not-values-salvaging-modern-britain/
Or maybe nana and granda knew a lot more about reality and the World than some snot nose.
And in those days at your age if you “cringed” it would be because were being propagandised.
I grew up in the NE too in the 1950s/1960s and nobody said anything untoward about “colourds” or “darkies” and these terms were not used as pejoratives, just descriptive. As you point out there were hardly any in any case.
I fail to see how it’s possible that such insular people, who didn’t even own a passport and therefore never traveled overseas for holidays to experience different cultures firsthand, and who lived in an area which was virtually 100% white their entire lives could know “a lot more about reality and the world”.
Perhaps inform yourself with the Windrush generation and their descendents and find out their personal experiences, then come back and explain that away as “propaganda”. The discrimination, the inequality in employment opportunities and pay, the “no blacks, Irish, dogs” signs on boarding houses, the violence and bullying, unjust targeting by the police, black kids being segregated by teachers, “othered” and bullied by white kids….the list goes on.
People absolutely were more racist years ago, and just the fact there had to be a Race Relations Act introduced proves this. To deny the racism that was prevelant in society is to deny reality and diminish these people’s personal experiences and struggles.
Half of what you say has been disproven as propaganda made up to shame the white population. That is not to say some blacks did not have a bad time. But why is that worse than a child who is bullied or excluded for having red hair, or wearing glasses.
or a person with a criminal record being denied a job, or a house to rent as being undesirable?
They too are discriminated against because of things they can neither change or help.
Go to the Middle East and you are not allowed to wear any religious symbolism but Muslim, on pain of punishment.
The problem I have with racism is that it’s supposed victims are part of an exclusive club and only they can say who can join. If you get to be a member, you can say and do what you like to none members and the state will make sure they can never retaliate.
as far as I’m concerned, that is true racism!
What half, exactly? You’re seriously comparing the racism towards a black child to that of a kid who’s ginger? And I’m referring to racism decades ago, so let’s not conflate that with the racism against white people which we undeniably face now, shamefully a lot of the time by fellow whites in positions of power. Passing white candidates over for more ”diverse” applicants, for instance, such as with the dreadful DEI shambles. But black people, as well as other races, did indeed face discrimination and abuse due to their ethnicity, and the proof of this is plastered all over the internet. To deny this is to be willfully blind;
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/history/impacts-of-the-windrush-generation.php
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2024/05/06/the-windrush-hero-who-fought-racism-and-won/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyN_jVbT1ps
Great and much needed article. Racism and worries about ludicrous unsustainable levels of immigration are two separate universes. Frankly, only racist people conflate the two – usually because their careers depend upon it aka Keon West. And they need to stop it. Mixed race kids are growing up thinking the UK is far more racist than it actually is – and this will damage their prospects as they become falsely sensitive in the job market making them unemployable never mind fit for promotion. Not only that, it will make them psychologically weaker as they are being encouraged by people like West to think they are somehow lesser and subject to perceptions based upon their skin colour and not their characters. I agree with Morgan Freeman.
Sign here: “I am racist: unconsciously, of course, and I will now consciously abase myself and consciously undergo a form of treatment that will do nothing but will at least allow me to claim certification for not being a racist like the other racists: whom I will now go on to condemn.
This only applies to white people, and it applies to them only because they are white. It is how anti-whitism is promoted, and is part of the ideological foundation of The Great Replacement.
When the BLM kicked off my reaction at the time was simply ‘where on earth did this come from?’ It seemed that almost overnight we apparently had the arrival of massive problem that somehow had escaped me for the 50 years of my adult life. I hadn’t lived a sheltered life and being born in Luton was very much aware of some of the issues. So what was this really all about?
We had the illegal BLM demonstration in London where ‘taking the knee’ had became politically ‘fashionable’ and 2TK and his deputy duly participated in solidarity. All of it reinforced a false narrative.
Morgan Freedom spoke out at the time and in a few words exposed the actual strategy; get people talking about something that doesn’t actually need a discussion and calling anybody who fell foul of the narrative a racist. Yes, we must address racism but this is not what this is about.
The penny dropped when I became aware of ‘problem, reaction, solution’. And there it was hiding in plain sight.
“But Racism was recognised by Everyman…”
No it wasn’t, I was alive back then, it was propagandised and Everyman then just like Everyman now was told he was racist/xenophobe/Fascist for questioning, or mentioning immigration.
Of course as human beings we notice people’s skin colour just as we notice how they are dressed, how they behave, whether they have a brummie accent, or worse, scouser. Whether they smell unwashed.
That is entirely normal.
Racism is about making judgements on the basis of of group identities, whereas the vast majority of decent folk deal with the individual in front of them.
Of course racism exists but it is absolutely blown out of all proportion.
Stupidity, greed and corruption are much worse problems, as is treason.
Is it possible to disagree with a word of it?
He’s right, isn’t he? People aren’t just saying something when they condemn racism — something benign that no decent person could dispute — they are doing something too. They are trying — and have been succeeding — in stopping other people talking about immigration. Anti-racism isn’t politically neutral. It is a political movement, which defends and encourages immigration.
I normally like your articles James but I find this one lacks your usual clarity especially at the start. For example I found the Beatles Commonwealth song very easily and that mentions Enoch Powell, but I can’t find one specifically about him as you implied: “Paul McCartney and John Lennon sing a song called ‘Commonwealth’, and then a song called ‘Enoch Powell’”.
Your argument that “… perhaps people who are slightly racist are more conscious of the need to officially align their views with politically correct views” plays into West’s hands because you are caught both ways if that is true as it implies that they are racists anyway. I don’t buy the idea of “slightly” racist, just as I don’t think you can be a little bit pregnant.
I am a racist in the purest sense of the word. I think the stereotypes that we have about certain races or groups are based on some level of objective observation, whether it’s how the French see us ros-bifs, or the stereotypes we have about French, Italians etc. (or even ourselves). BTW I lived in France for many years and Italy for many more and have many friends in both nations and now family since my daughter’s partner is Italian.
This is not the same as colour prejudice which is abhorrent. Finding some truths in the sterotype doesn’t mean that we should treat individuals on that basis, each should be judged on their character as someone once said.
Playing the race card has always been very lucrative and politically powerful. There is too much to be gained to just “stop talking about it”.
And if you are an expert on ‘racism’ how are you to maintain and develop your ‘expertise’ by keeping quiet about it? It’s your stock-in-trade. You have a vested interest in talking it up … and-down, from-side-to-side, back-and-forth and round-and-round. ‘Keep the pot boiling’, as children used to say at play.
He wouldnt need to admit Morgan Freeman is more racist than before since those that profit most from the racism grift built themselves an escape clause, that only white people can be racist. They achieved this by redefining the term racism, linking it to oppression (ie minorities cant be racist).
I live outside the UK in a country where white people are a minority, so I am oppressed while there, but the second I step off the plane at Heathrow I apparently become racist by this definition (as do minorities living in the UK when they visit majority black or brown countries)