At 22:57 25/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
God, this just gets worse. I don't have time to read this shit. Harry were you here in 1954? Keith did you ever experience Apartheid or Segregation?
Oh dear, you do get carried away don't you? I could take offence at some of the immoderate language you so frequently hurl at Harry and me. Why don't you keep to facts instead of being carried away by your emotions? I confine most of my emotions to my nearest and dearest and working colleagues because I haven't a great deal more to spread around. (And nor has any other normal person either.) If more West Indian- and African-born UK male citizens in England also confined their emotions to their nearest and dearest, and looked after their wives/girl friends and children instead of abandoning them to the state as soon as possible, then so many of them wouldn't be occupying our prisons and more people could walk the streets in our cities without being mugged. They came here in order to share our prosperity but, *generally*, they can't cope with our particular type of culture and the skills that are required for middle-class-type professions. (But, just to make sure you understand me correctly, there are plenty of white trash, too -- yes, even in our welfare state with equality of state schooling for all -- "high quality" too, according to our Labour government -- who also abandon their wives and children and mug old people in the streets.)
Please listen to me. I believe in complete equality of legal rights and opportunities for black, white, yellow, male, female, rich, middle class and poor. Got it? But people are different. Different races of mankind have different physical, emotional and mental characteristics and, *generally*, best live in different sorts of cultures. In terms of western-type society in which you and I happen to live, whites are more adept than African-derived blacks, and Asians are more adept than whites.(We already have two or three Indian billionaires in this country who were thrown out of Uganda by Amin 30 years ago and stripped of their possessions. Also, I have not heard of any poor adult Chinese person in this country -- and I wouldn't mind betting that there are none in San Francisco either.) The prejudice of whites against blacks in this country is as nothing compared with the hatred and trouble between Hindus and Moslems in our northern towns, or Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, or Walloons and Flemings in Belgium, or the different tribes in Africa where they regularly slaughter one another in their hundreds of thousands (somewhere between 2 and 4 million in the Congo alone in the past few years), and we and our newspapers hardly mention these incidents because our emotions are limited).
All races and cultures are capable of the grossest savagery and murder but, otherwise, different races and cultures are manifoldly different in their daily lives. Not totally. But different enough for us to take notice and discuss each situation intelligently without sounding off and denying what actually happens in the real world.
Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England
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