Black and white
Sir: The Powell pother prompts me to com- ment on Mr Bill Grundy's attack on a brief Sunday Express criticism of a situation in which people from overseas could be smuggled into Britain, permitted to stay without jobs, and able at least theoretically to support families at the expense of the native taxpayer. Such obser- vations for your columnist are 'not far short of racial incitement' (19 April)!
Yet he himself speaks of the 'much-demon- strated inhumanity' of the white man to the black man, blissfully unconscious of the fact that this itself is a generalised racial libel. Some whites have ill-treated coloured people; others have treated them well. Some blacks have ill- treated other blacks and even (though it may surprise our latter-day Mrs Grundy who would wish to expunge any references to such an obscene truth from the record) been cruel to some whites. Racial persecution has never been a European monopoly.
It is significant that in these discussions the inverted racial bigots are always first to accuse others of being irrational or prejudiced.
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