The ‘equalities’ agenda has backfired
by Harry Phibbs, The Critic:
“I have a dream,” declared Martin Luther King on August 28, 1963, “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”
That inspirational cry for justice – for a colour blind society of individual opportunity and responsibility – has been betrayed. Those thwarting that dream are not some phantom phalanx of white supremacists occupying the commanding heights of British public life this last half century. Rather, look to the professional anti-racists in the equalities industry who have been firmly in charge of almost every institution in this country for just about the entire working lifetime of anyone. Their racial essentialism is the public doctrine of this country and has been for some long time now. The state of modern British society, of which they complain so bitterly, is very much on them.
This bitter irony will not have escaped the notice of the more assiduous followers of current affairs. Outfits such as “Black Lives Matter” have not been championing cohesion, harmony, and equal treatment. They have been dedicated to division, discrimination, and separatism.
An open apartheid system was established in the “autonomous zone” of Seattle where “anti-racists” established a segregated area for black people. Here in the UK we have seen ethnic minorities being targeted for abuse for exercising dissentient thought. As Kemi Badenoch, the Treasury and Equalities Minister, said: ‘Sadly, some are willing to casually dismiss the contribution of people who don’t conform to their expectation of how ethnic minorities should think and behave. This, in itself, is racist.’
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