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RACE |
The Express:
The new barbarians are
non-Whites
Is that the multicultural enrichment
we are forced to
endure?
The Express (London), 17.12.1997, frontpage:
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Picture bottom row, far left: He is Philippino, no Brit.
And the most respectable newspaper of the world - The London Times - published in its sunday issue the following sensational report on the impossibility of a multiracial culture:
SUNDAY ISSUE |
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What went wrong over the past 19 years? The story of this boy, David Ashberry, has forced the debate about the rival influences of nature and nurture onto particulary sensitive territory. For Ashberry is black and the parents who have raised him since the age of six weeks are white ... Adoption experts have seized on the case to argue that, although the Ashberrys should not blame themselves, the adoption of a black child by white parents was a gamble. "If a black or Asian child is raised in the country or a small town., without access to racial role models or without being educated about their own culture, then when they reach their teens and are mobile they will go too far into their own culture, they can become all gung-ho," argued Barbara Moston of the campaign for Inter Country Adoption ... "Inter-racial adoption" was common in the 1960s and 1970s, said Felicity Collier, director of the British Agency of Adoption and Fostering. Now, however, social workers strive to find suitable parents from the same racial background, despite criticism that this is racist. "It makes practical sense," Collier argued. "All of us like to look like the people bringing us up" ... Rosalind Miles, a psychologist and author of The Children We Deserve, about racing children ... said: "A black child in a white culture is always a fish out of the water. To be born black and brought up in a white culture sets up impossible tensions. My feeling is he would have spend his childhood days in a state of confusion. He would be trying to make sense of the divergent messages that he was seeing with his eyes. They tell him they are his parents but they are a different colour. What does a child make of that?" |
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Ref: Talmud (the Holy Book for the Jewish people), Goldmann Publishers (Bertelsmann), Munich 1988, page 131 |