As (in the words of Break Dancing Jesus, of this Parish) “the Mulatto Hitler” to Robert Mugabe’s Black Hitler, I naturally welcome the growth of the mixed-race population in this country.
But I cannot understand the suggestion that the Afro-Caribbean ethnic group (itself an invention in this country – each of the West Indies is distinct, but people from all of them were classified together when they moved here) might thus disappear. If anyone is mixed-race, then they are. Just look at them. Like African-Americans, or Saint Helenians, or Cape Coloureds, or Anglo-Indians, they are defined precisely by their mixed ancestry and by the culture thus formed.
If their almost Caucasian-looking grandchildren are still eating jerk chicken and listening to reggae, then they will be much like the White Jamaicans, also visibly mixed-race, and an integral part of Jamaican society with all that that entails.
And I naturally welcome the proposal to give first preference in the jobs market to British people, who can be and are any colour that human beings can be and are. Eastern Europeans, by contrast, are as good as invariably white.
And after our own citizenry, who? The West Indians came here as English-speaking, Christian subjects of the Crown. Most of them still are. With the Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and relevant Pacific Islanders, it is to Her Majesty’s Caribbean subjects that next preference should obviously be given.
Along with the Irish, since the closest possible economic, social, cultural and political ties must always be maintained between the historic Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales), the historic Kingdom of Scotland and the historic Kingdom of Ireland.
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Being a Mulatto is why you were denied that nomination and they gave it to BDJ instead. You should have sued.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that you manage to sit in meetings with this racist fanatic.
We just sit at opposite ends of the room and don't speak to each other.
ReplyDeleteActually, I was told at the time that I would get Legal Aid and that I would win, since I was manifestly so much better qualified a candidate than someone who had been a co-opted Parish Councillor for less than a year and, er, that was it. Apart, of course, from being the MP's tea boy.
There is no Statute of Limitations on this sort of thing, is there? As far as I am concerned, magnanimous soul that I am, I am willing to go without anything like as much as I am really owed and accept twenty thousand pounds from each of him, his then employer, and the now-outgoing County Councillor, to cover the deposits for our Strasbourg candidates, though refundable to me rather than to anyone else when those deposits are saved.
Is that the same Break Dancing Jesus who thought that "the conservative Colbert" was a reference to The Colbert Report?
ReplyDeleteHe, Armstrong and Forster could in turn recoup some of the money from the Kevan Jones and his allies the Marshalls, for racistly giving a seat to some Marshall teenager over you even though you were DLP Secretary at the time.
"Is that the same Break Dancing Jesus who thought that "the conservative Colbert" was a reference to The Colbert Report?"
ReplyDeleteThe very same.
"He, Armstrong and Forster could in turn recoup some of the money from the Kevan Jones and his allies the Marshalls, for racistly giving a seat to some Marshall teenager over you even though you were DLP Secretary at the time."
That would be a matter for them.
Their Stanley Town Council campaign did, of course, have a most interesting side where this sort of thing was concerned...