Round-up

1. Employers across Northern Ireland are being urged to stamp out racism in the workplace. About 13,000 packs containing posters, stickers and leaflets carrying the anti-racism message have been sent out to workplaces.

See, this is my problem with initiatives such as this one: How much is it going to cost to send all these packs out? And what benefit are we likely to see from it? Virtually none, as far as I'm concerned. Do you really think a racist is going to open a passage that says "Stop being racist" and suddenly change his ways? It's like expecting a terrorist to stop what he's doing because you tell him it's bad. No attempt is being made to actually look at the underlying causes of racism and prevent those, and to examine the legitimate concerns people might have about immigration and so on. These kinds of costly campaigns simply won't get us anywhere.

2. In the Pathetic Racial Controversy of the Week, a prospective Conservative MP has withdrawn his candidacy after a race row followed comments he made praising Enoch Powell's controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. Nigel Hastilow wrote in a newspaper column that Mr Powell's warnings about uncontrolled immigration were right.

Now ain't this just pathetic? Neither Powell nor Hastilow said anything racist; they only voiced concerns about uncontrolled immigration - that topic that the Left refuse to talk about rationally without using smear words like "racist". It is a truly sad day when a man has to forgo his ambitions because of the PC crowd. I HATE political correctness.

3. And speaking of political correctness, here is a short letter about racism to the Fayette Observer. Particularly poignant to me is the last line:

Sadly, it is politically correct to say, “I’m black and I’m proud.” but quite politically incorrect to say, “I’m white and I’m proud.” That, in itself, is all that is needed for me to condemn political correctness.