We often hear, yammered sheep-like by the Wokerati, that Britain is an institutionally racist country. But what a contradiction, since it is the same Orwellian bleaters who encourage the mass migration to our shores of people of colour. So, which is it? Are we a bastion of abominable racism or a country that people of all colours risk their lives in dinghies to live in? Pray tell.
Of course, we must not expect an answer since this is one of those glaring double-thoughts that the ‘Britainophobes’ want the rest of us not to notice.
But have you noticed how the narrative that Britain is institutionally racist is diminishing as the counter-evidence piles up? By counter-evidence I mean, among other data, the people who are currently at the top of the UK’s governments.
Take, for instance, the new First Minister of Wales. His name is Vaughan Gething and he is of dual heritage as he was born to a white Welsh father and a black Zambian mother in Zambia in 1974. His is a story of how sensible immigration and integration policies lead to migrants taking their place in their new nation rather than becoming self-segregating bigots.
At the age of four, Gething moved from Zambia to Wales. He was schooled in Dorset and completed his education at two universities-Aberystwyth and Cardiff. He left his lawyer’s practice to become a member of the Welsh Assembly. Because of his black heritage, he is the first black leader of a European nation. Let that fact settle in. Although he is a Labour leader, and yes, no one is perfect, he is a welcome blast of air freshener in the flatulent swamps of identity politics. Thus, when asked why he is the first black man to have run the TUC in Wales, he said it was not because he was black but because the other candidates were not good enough. If Britain were an institutionally racist nation and not the multi-ethnic meritocracy it is, Gething would be nowhere near where is he is today.
Having non-white political leaders in Britain is wonderfully unremarkable. Think of who else has been at the helm recently and are today. In central government, we have seen Priti Patel and Suella Braverman (Home Secretaries), James Cleverley (Foreign Secretary), Kwasi Kwarteng (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Sajid Javid who has occupied a multiplicity of Cabinet jobs. Kemi Badenoch, who was elected to Parliament by the majority white constituency of Saffron Walden, is busy drumming up trade for Britain as Secretary of State for Business and Trade. North of the Border, there is Humza Yusuf as First Minister and London’s Mayor is Sadiq Khan. Most importantly, Rishi Sunak is Britain’s Prime Minister. These politicians’ skin colours have never been an issue. The criticism they have received is for their policies not the amount of melanin their bodies produce. If Britain were an institutionally racist country, Sunak et al would not have got into Parliament let alone become ministers of the Crown. But that is not the end of the story.
When Britain exited the EU, the European Parliament lost a fifth of its ethnic minority members. Now, just twenty-four out of 705 MEPs from the 2019 mandate are people of colour. Furthermore, Britain welcomed with much enthusiasm Meghan Markle into its royal family. That she is now unpopular in Britain is not because of her dark skin, but because of her conduct. She has been judged as Martin Luther King said she should be in his famous ‘I have a dream speech’ of 1963 – “by the content of her character”.
So, if you are ever in debate with a race-baiter on the left who perpetuates the myth of Britain’s institutional racism and bangs on about unconscious bias, deconstructing whiteness and white fragility, confront the pernicious prick with the above facts. You are unlikely to persuade him or her for the politically correct mindset is hard as granite, but let us celebrate that the slander of our great nation as officially racist is sounding remarkably hollow these days.
Peter Harris is the author of two books, The Rage Against the Light: Why Christopher Hitchens Was Wrong (2019) and Do You Believe It? A Guide to a Reasonable Christian Faith (2020).
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Would be a more balanced analysis if seeming enthusiasm for ethnic minorities to hold positions of power (was there sarcasm I missed?) also pointed out that once in positions of power some of these people then still moan about white privilege and so presumably think that institutional racism will exist until all white people (the majority, still) are subjugated. Right on types also pander to this, oblivious that they too will eventually be ousted from their comfortable middle class occupations.
Our government is become ‘Hideously dark’ perhaps Mr Dyke?