STRUCTURAL RACISM OR MASS IMMIGRATION?

The BBC’s Newsnight programme recently examined the matter of the trolling and allegedly racist abuse (which most people have not seen) aimed at the three non-White England footballers who all failed to score in the Euro 2020 final penalty shoot out – thus losing England the match.

Newsnight interviewed Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Rakin Ehsan of Don’t Divide Us. No Conservative was interviewed, let alone a genuine one. Analysis revealed that of 105 accounts on Instagram that had trolled the three footballers, nine were no longer active, 32 had too little information to determine their details, 59 were non-UK and only five were based in the UK. As the England manager himself had already conceded, the majority of the trolls attacking the footballers were from overseas.

This fact did not deter the politically correct from accusing English society as a whole of being racist.

The Tory MP, Steve Baker, who has recently joined a Tory pressure group about race (see here) was reported as complaining that the Tories were on the wrong side of the argument about footballers taking the knee (Boris Johnson and Priti Patel, as well as others, had originally condemned the gesture). Steve Baker has support in the Tory Party.

Newsnight proceeded with further analysis from its reporter Lewis Goodall, who asserted: ‘Behind this conflict is structural racism’ and whether or not the UK was structurally racist. He delved into a number of statistics. For example the 2011 census showed that the police were overwhelmingly White, with Asians accounting for 3.1 per cent of the police although they constituted 6.8 per cent of the population. For those who are Black, the figures were 1.3 per cent and 3.3 per cent; for Mixed race it was 2.2 per cent and 2.2 per cent; for Whites it was 92.7 per cent and 86 per cent; and for others, including the Chinese, it was 0.8 per cent and 1.7 per cent.

Some might argue that these statistical differences are not material. There is not a lot of difference between 1.3 per cent and 3.3 per cent.

Newsnight continued to complain that 92.6 per cent of judges were White, but ‘it is getting better’ due to the number of non-White barristers there were. Academics were nearly all White, as were Permanent Secretaries, Chief Constables, businessmen of leading companies, and even journalists. Although the medical profession had a ‘better story to tell’. It should be noted that being White is presented as something bad, and that replacing White people with non-Whites is something wonderful.

Lewis Goodall warned that a leading report had said that it ‘will take till 2044 to get to 13 per cent of the top leadership filled by ethnic minorities, by which time 20 per cent of the population will be an ethnic minority’. What he had just described here is a process of ethnic cleansing, and implied that the purging of English people from English institutions should be speeded up to keep pace with the scale of mass immigration.

For Lewis Goodall, the ‘picture is extremely dark indeed’. It might be so, but not for the reasons he set out. Lewis Goodall continued: ‘The question you have to ask is: Why? Is this about conscious discrimination on behalf of individuals? Or is the system itself failing ethnic minorities? Now, if you conclude it is the latter, well that is what the idea of structural racism really is.’

There then followed a brief interview with Kehinde Andrews, who agreed that racism is structural by its nature and is a part of the political/economic system. This is communism. It follows logically that if the political/economic system is responsible for racism, then to end racism it is necessary to abolish the political/economic system. This was not explored by Newsnight, but was set out by Kehinde Andrews when he wrote: ‘Reparations are due, and tearing down Western capitalism is an utter necessity if we are serious about ending racism. But to realize the revolutionary politics necessary for this transformation we first need to recognize that the West can never pay full reparations for slavery without destroying itself.’ He further wrote: ‘The West simply cannot end racism through reparations because racial hierarchy is the fuel that feeds the system.’ Andrews endorsed the inevitability of the ultimate revolution: ‘But make no mistake, whether spurred by revolution or tipped into collapse under its own weight, the West will eventually fall. Malcolm [X] was right when he warned that it will be “the ballot or the bullet, liberty or death, freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody”.’

Lewis Goodall continued to assert that structural racism was ‘a reflection of the deep structural forces that work in society. For example, racial inequalities intersect with other questions like class and wealth’. He presented a chart showing a breakdown of those families with less than £1,000 in savings between 2016 to 2018. This showed that those of those families that were Black African, 60 per cent had less than £1,000 in savings. For Bangladeshi families, the figure was 54 per cent; for Black Caribbean families it was 49 per cent; for Pakistani families 48 per cent; for White and Black Caribbean families 46 per cent; Chinese 34 per cent; Other White 32 per cent; White British 28 per cent; Indian 25 per cent; and White and Asian families it was 23 per cent.

Lewis Goodall said: ‘Overall, an average Bangladeshi family has only £31,000 in total assets, versus a White British family of £197,000.’ There were other inequalities too. Change was ‘glacial’. Lewis Goodall moved to his main point (italics my own emphasis):

‘You can dispute the idea of structural racism – the idea that society is inadvertently or otherwise rigged against minorities. But if you do that, of course, you have to have another explanation for all the disparities we have talked about and many more besides. What is without question is that these disparities most certainly exist, they are stark indeed, and it is they to which the proponents of taking the knee say they are trying to draw attention.’

He said it.

If the footballers were taking the knee to allege that they were victims of structural racism, despite their wealthy status, and that society, ie the English, was structurally racist, then they have merely demonstrated that they should have stuck to football instead of insulting England fans.

The concept of structural racism is race war politics.

The idea that unless there is an alternative explanation, which Lewis Goodall was unable to identify, then England is structurally racist is bunkum. If something is twaddle, then it is twaddle regardless of what else there is around. The case for structural racism, as put forward by Lewis Goodall is twaddle. That he allowed Kehinde Andrews to peddle communism as independent analysis was unforgivable. This is not a game. More than 100 million people were killed in the name of communism in the 20^th century.

Looking at it from a KGB perspective, the Newsnight programme demonstrated the consequences of the slow process of ‘ideological subversion’, often referred to as ‘active measures’ or ‘psychological warfare’ – to which, according to the KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, the KGB devoted 85 per cent of its time, money and manpower. The purpose of this subversion was to ‘change the perception of reality … to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country’ (see here).

The reason why England’s ethnic minorities are generally poorer than the English population, is because they are immigrant communities from poorer countries in the Third World. There is a never-ending wave of immigrants entering England, often illegally, from poor Third World countries and the government has made no provision for schools, hospitals, roads, railways or housing to accommodate this tidal wave. Further, the present Tory Government has agreed to bring many millions of Hong Kong Chinese into the UK and has entered into a ‘migration and mobility’ partnership with India – population 1.38 billion (see here and here).

It is not structural racism that is the cause of any racial disparities, but the policy of mass immigration.