[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Nothing evokes the scorn and derision of the coloured man more than the empty rhetoric about " mutual under- standing and good will " between white and coloured peoples. He knows only too well that this monstrous practice of racial discrimination is a weapon that has been forged by the white races in order to keep him in subjection, and is due partly to fear and partly to economic reasons.
The man of colour firmly believes that the " colour bar " will disappear, not by a few newspaper articles or meetings as you rightly mention or even by the formation of an Anti- Colour Bar Council, but only when the causes which giVe rise to it are completely eradicated ; and every intelligent coloured man is convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that the causes are mainly economic and that not until he achieves political and economic independence will the white races be compelled to put a stop to the unrestrained cam- paign of ridicule and misrepresentation which is so often directed against the coloured peoples.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Common Room, 3 fiddle Temple, E.C. 4. M. G. SINANAN.
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