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GOVERNMENT ADVISORY BODY ECHOES FAR-RIGHT WITH A CALL FOR RACIAL
SEGREGATION IN HOUSING
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http://www.redaction.org/news/mar_01.html#02_03_01

Following on from recent government proposals to fund demands from some
ethnic communities for their children to be educated seperately, the chair
of a government advisory body has now called for housing to be segregated on
racial lines as well.

In a speech to a European conference in Amsterdam on Febuary 14th, Parmit
Uppal, chair of the Tennant Participation Advisory Service, openly called
for the widespread adoption of racial segregation in housing, claiming that
"some communities want to live closer together." Advancing the arguments for
segregation, Parmit Uppal insisted that it is wrong to "focus on segregation
being a weakness...segregation is not weakness" but means in reality
"sustainable communities, family ties, cultural and friendship ties", which
"should all be valued in housing allocation policies".

She went on: "The Government might say it is not good, it could also be the
view of the middle classes and the intellectuals, but it is not the view of
the masses."

Commenting on the controversial speech a TPAS spokesman said: "People
naturally want to be with people who share their values".

While the call for absolute racial segregation may leave many anti-racists
and and anti-fascists uneasy, it also the logical and eventual outcome of
the promotion of diversity through the multicultural strategy supported by
all the mainstream parties, and the self-styled revolutionary left.

Other groups and organisations who would vigorously if not violently reject
the multicultural ethos, but which would nonetheless enthusiastically take
up the call for racial segregation on the premise that "people naturally
want to be with people who share their values" are the National Front, C18
and the British National Party.

Prominent among what the BNP describe as 'interesting quotes' on their
website is one from Muhammed Ali, himself a black nationalist: "All thing's
like to stick to their own kind, tigers with tigers, red ants with red ants,
black ants with black ants...whites and blacks are totally different,
different cultures, different natures, different tastes..."

It is unlikely Parmjit Uppal has much time for the BNP but she does seem to
share their values. And if of course segregation is good for black
communities then one must assume it would also be good for white
communities. But if this argument is accepted it brings society full circle,
making a mockery of the principle of anti-racism in the process. For
instance support for the call for racial segregation in the name of
anti-racism would leave the original principle in tatters, both isolated,
and unsustainable. A reality that is surely undeniable.

Furthermore the unaddressed logic of calling for disparate racial groups to
be 'housed, educated and policed' only by people with whom they 'share their
values' also kicks open the door to the irrestible notion that at some stage
they all ought to be invited to return to their country of origin, 'their
own countries'. As French National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen put it: 'I
love Muslims but they belong in Maghreb'.

Following his party's capturing of Belgiums second city Antwerp the leader
of the far-right Vlamms Blok Filip DeWinter made similar remarks. "I don't
believe in all these cultures living together...If I want to experience
other cultures I will go to other countries."

Lone voices like those of Anti-Fascist Action who have tried to warn the
Left of the political ambush they are walking into have, when not ignored or
derided, just as often been accused of being fascists themselves.

For further references see Race And Class section of this site. (see:
http://www.redaction.org/race_and_class/contents.html)

The full text of the speech by Parmit Uppal can be obtained by request from
the bulletin board of the TPAS site. (see: http://www.tpas.org.uk).

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