Re: Too Late for Prejudice.

I have never read so much sentimental *** and woolly-minded drivel as
this


Been reading the Daily Mail again ?


Glenallan wrote:
> Today, in the first decade of the this millennium, Britain,
> this sceptred little isle is at a crossroads. It is challenged on
> every front by ideas that are often alien to the natural instincts
> of its people. And yet, this is a noble people.
> This is a people with a unique historic perspective and a unique
> place in the developing philosophy of Democracy in the world
> since its earliest planting in the seed bed of Europe.
>
> Britain, with a bejewelled place in the roll of honour among nations
> has been unique in developing a process of self correction in almost
> all of its institutions right through from its rejection of slavery and its
> recognition of the wrongness of that dogma, through the establishment
> of the notion of universal suffrage, and the notions of equality and
> liberty.
>
> In every age, in every time, it has stood as a beacon of advancement for the
> betterment of relations between mankind collectively and good order and
> regulation in society.
>
> And so it is today, a nation challenged as never before by many
> issues that have arisen from beyond its shores as well as familial
> challenges to the nation state within which we exist.
>
> We live today in a multiple culture.
> We live today in a dynamic and developing culture of British identity that
> will be unique, for in its dynamics it will, of needs embrace the multiple
> values of the people who shall be British and who shall share these islands.
>
> Those of us who hold that our nation is an entity that can transform
> itself are well aware that the varied and various mixtures of ethnic
> and cultural groups within our society demand a rightful place of equality
> under our law, and we are equally aware that the nation can only survive
> and prosper for the benefit of all of its people by recognising difference,
> and arriving at an accommodation that will bring us all to the fountain
> of democracy, respect and harmony.
>
> But how shall we do this?.
> By what mechanism shall we make this happen?
>
> Through the institutions of our system we needs make new laws.
> Laws that will demand of us a commonality of aspiration, and a common
> will to build a nation. We need to break the log-jam of obstruction
> to integration and plainly say that our culture is to be a common culture.
> It is to have vast areas of common agreement on issues of the rights of
> all of humanity and the preeminent right of the majority never to be
> enslaved by the minority.
>
> In education, we need to proceed to a non-sectarian, non denominational
> system that educates for society at a common level. Through education, we
> ought develop all of the notions of freedom and democracy, civil duty and
> good citizenship that we all have a right to expect.
>
> We need to have a genuine practical policy of integration of all races in
> British society. We must end the culture of ignoring the obvious and
> grapple once and for all the concept of nationhood with new
> understanding.
>
> We need to physically and literally dismantle the burgeoning ghettos of our
> society and insist that integration become a reality for all, removing
> forever the block to common aspiration to individual success.
>
> Only then can we truly say that we have welcomed the incoming British.
> Some may say that this would be a denial or a distortion at the very least,
> of principle.
>
> Others may equally aver that it is not the principle that counts, but the
> compromise and the growth of commonality that is of the essence
> of our commitment to democracy and freedom within these islands.
>
> Finally, when these realities are addressed we will for decades to
> come have addressed the ongoing threat of terror through perceived
> injustice. For, at the very least we have to concede that it is the
> perception
> injustice, borne out in some of the most recent errors of governmental j
> udgement that have brought us to the point we are at today.
>
> By all means,we must combat the terror through
> Intelligence, but that alone will not remove it.
> Such will forever be a rearguard action.
>
> In the final analysys, because the demographics of Britain,
> Europe and the world are like ever shifting sands we need all to stand
> together as never before casting off at best, or compromising at worst,
> individual prejudices.
>
> It is too late for prejudice.
> The world demands more from us.
>
> Glenallan
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