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Race chief warns of ghetto crisis |
2005-09-18 |
BRITAINâS race relations chief is to warn that the country is âsleepwalkingâ into New Orleans-style racial segregation, with Muslim and black ghettos dividing cities. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), is to say the July terror attacks have exposed a racial ânightmareâ where some districts are becoming âfully-fledged ghettos â literal black holesâ where people fear to go. In a stark warning to Tony Blair, Phillips will say in a speech this week that race relations policy is failing to tackle the roots of ethnic alienation and extremism. He will suggest new measures that he admits critics will regard as social engineering. These could include forcing âwhiteâ schools to take larger numbers of ethnic minorities to help to encourage integration. He will admit that his message is âbleakâ but sees Americaâs experience after Hurricane Katrina as a warning to Britain to avoid similar complacency in believing that it has an integrated society. âThe fact is we are a society which, almost without noticing it, is becoming more divided by race and religion. We are becoming more unequal by ethnicity,â he will tell Manchester Council for Community Relations on Thursday. âOur ordinary schools . . . are becoming more exclusive and our universities are starting to become colour-coded with virtual âwhites keep outâ signs in some urban institutions.â In a side-swipe at Oxford, Cambridge and other top universities, he will say: âIf you look closely at the campuses of some of our most distinguished universities you can pick out the invisible âno blacks may enterâ messages.â Some districts, he will say, are on their way to âliteral black holes into which nobody goes without fear and trepidation, and from which nobody ever escapes undamagedâ. He will warn that if this continues, the first century of black immigration would end in a âNew Orleans-style Britain of passively coexisting ethnic and religious communities, eyeing each other uneasily over the fences of our differencesâ. Assessing where Britain stands in the aftermath of the July 7 attacks, he says: âWe are sleepwalking our way to segregation. We are becoming strangers to each other and leaving communities to be marooned outside the mainstream.â Phillips cites new evidence from the CRE that âresidential segregationâ is increasing even as some Asians are moving into middle-class areas. âWhat is left behind is hardening in its separateness,â he will say. The number of people of Pakistani heritage in ghettos, which he defines as those with more than two-thirds of any one ethnicity, trebled between 1991 and 2001. In Bradford, 13.3% now live in such communities compared with 4.3% in 1991; in Leicester it has risen from 10.8% to 13.3%. According to Phillips, new research also pours cold water on hopes that children mixing in schools might break down the barriers between communities. The study by Bristol University found that children are slightly more segregated in the playground than they are in their neighbourhoods. âThat means that not only arenât the children meeting â nor are their parents,â Phillips will say. New CRE research will also show that most white people do not have a non-white friend, while young Asian and black people have almost exclusively Asian or black friends. Phillips will suggest that schools could be given cash incentives to increase their ethnic mix and local education authorities could be forced to broaden their catchment areas to include a more even racial mix. He also has concerns about white working-class ghettos in places such as Barking, Essex, and parts of Yorkshire. Critics will dismiss his warning as alarmist. But Phillips will argue: âAmerica is not our dream but our nightmare. When the hurricane hits â and it could be a recession rather than a natural disaster â those (segregated) communities are set up for destruction.â |
Posted by:Groluns Snoluter6338 |
#4 Asians and Muslims have always been tight knit and secretive subcultures in England and the U.S. Cincinnati has been bussing kids all around the city for years to try to get their schools "integrated". Black kids and white kids don't get along any better now than they did before. Muslims are shut out because they want to be shut out, they want absolutely no contact with apostate dogs like us. I know several university students that are muslem, they chose to take on American ways and they fit in just fine. Some choose to recoil into their little prayer groups and seethe about america, and freedom and everything un-muslim. |
Posted by: Crick Elmuger1423 2005-09-18 23:25 |
#3 How about packing the Asians and blacks back to where they came from? |
Posted by: mac 2005-09-18 22:18 |
#2 how about requiring they meet standards and providing adequate equipped staff to meet those standars....oh yeah, and those stds should relate to gaining employment in other than madrassahs |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-18 20:04 |
#1 "New Orleans-style racial segregation"? Huh? New Orleans is a black city. How's it segregated? The British have really gone off the deep end. The only positive part is that they're finally, finally realizing that multiculturalism is a total crock. |
Posted by: gromky 2005-09-18 18:29 |