Britain risks Los Angeles-style race riots
Andre Paine:
Britain will suffer Los Angeles-style riots unless black and Asian people integrate fully into society, according to race relations chief Trevor Phillips.
In a speech to Right-wing think tank Civitas, Mr Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said "corporate multi-culturalism" was keeping some ethnic minorities segregated.
Making the comparison with riots in California in 1992 which left 50 people dead, he added: "What we will end up with is Los Angeles in flames."
Mr Phillips said for 30 years race relations campaigners had argued that the way to end discrimination was through "multi-culturalism".
He added: "We started to come apart [when] the recognition of diversity became more important than the achievement of equality."
He said that by funding community groups according to their ethnic background, councils had caused the tolerance of "extreme stances" by some leaders.
Mr Phillips called for a "perfectly integrated society" where prospects would be unrelated to race.
Finally a voice of reason.
posted by Adam Lawson @ 10:18 AM
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[Mr Phillips called for a "perfectly integrated society" where prospects would be unrelated to race.]
Isn't this just more pure (some would say 'liberal') fantasy? I get seriously annoyed reading stuff like this, especially when it comes from some bureaucrat who's a "race relations chief" -- whatever that is.
How can "prospects" be "unrelated to race", when more and more evidence shows our basic attributes, e.g. intelligence, which determine how we, or better how members of a specific racial or ethnic group, are able to compete with others for a slice of the economic pie, are, in large measure and on average, seemingly determined by race and ethnicity, i.e. our genes? It makes no sense.
We can, and should, strive to see that opportunity is unrelated to race or ethnicity. But still much evidence indicates the prospects of whites will be, on average, better than those of blacks. And this means the average outcome will be different, which is the very source of a lot of the social pathology we read about here and elsewhere every day, as well as the impetus for numerous misguided 'solutions', like affirmative action.
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