by Francis Geol.
It's has been nearly one year since Labour party racist - John Denham made his extraordinary claim that there is no such thing as racism against Black people in the UK.
See below for some of his views:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8458298.stm
I am a white man, and work extensively with many Black people of Caribbean descent. I was lucky to know many people who had a keen interest in Black History, but were prevented from expressing their views because they did not speak in the received language of the time.
The likes of individuals like Trevor Philips - friend of Prince Charles and Lee Jasper, were advanced as if they were experts. The reality was that they were and still are clueless. the first is a dyed in the wool colonial and the latter an establishment acclaimed reformed junkie, with a side-line in being a consultant police informer.
What worried me was the focus on gun crime and the police. Other individuals from other communities were seen as gifted people who were headed to university and then onwards to a stellar career finishing in the House of Lords.
On the other hand, Black West-Indians were perpetual muggers, rapists and dunces. Then there was the African coup that happened in Peckham where I still live.
Suddenly it was receive intelligence among the white liberal middle classes who had done their obligatory gap years, etc to see Africans as the solution to the Black British -Problem.
I began to look at the actual history and development of this policy, and realised that millions of pounds of development money was being thrown into the education of Africans.
So what happened to the West-Indians? What was the British government's policy on them?
It's obvious - the policy was to slash and burn, to cut them adrift, to let them burn in hell.
British foreign policy played a massive part in this. The oil rich states such as Nigeria, Guinea and others were more important than dealing with their internal race problems.
The newspapers reported that the United Kingdom's Muslim community were not prepared to put up and shut up. Neither were they prepared to be bundled in with Asians or ethnic minorities.
Their agument became politically developed to the point of acknowledging their global relations with the Muslim brothers and sisters. Hit one hit all was now a mature global policy that they practiced to the hilt.
No more could a John Denham type tell them about their pain and the solutions.
The West-Indians on the other hand, seemed to have been mesmerised by a fantasy world image of the African motherland.
Many started to ear dashikis and other African clobber so that they could confirm that they were not lost souls who had lost their culture, but their in with the in crowd - educated Nigerians.
Everyone claimed that they were a barrister, a doctor, a judge, government official, a government minister or the governor of the state.
Even more annoyingly they all appeared to come from Lagos.
I decided to go a spend some time in Nigeria. I found the experience horrendous! Everyone expected a bribe for even the slightest task. I eventually left early in disgust.
I realised that the British governments domestic race policy on West Indians was based on their warped foreign policy of gaining oil from Nigeria. Gordon Brown pumped the policy until it bled.
David Cameron intends to promote that policy only with a twist- he's lobbed the mixed races.
Fingers crossed Black West Indians will start to take note of international affairs and realise that it is now in their interest to start speaking about compensation about their experiences of racism in British society.
I'm here to tell anyone who will listen that racism is alive a well in Britain and until it is stopped in its tracks it will increase.
