The journalist and broadcaster, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who arrived here (England) from Uganda in 1972, was on the board of the Runnymede Trust when the report was released.
This is how one high profile immigrant (Here’s her contact info.- Ed.) expresses her gratitude to those who gave her sanctuary:
“Thereis an underlying assumption that says white is right. There is a whitepanic every time one part of their world seems to be passing over toanyone else. But it’s foolish to panic about it. So what if we dobecome a majority? What difference does it make? The empire strikesback really.
There was this extraordinary assumption thatwhite people could go and destroy peoples and it would have noconsequence. It astounds me.”
“The making and remaking of any nation is not an easy task, and youneed real guts and conviction to press on with it. This country hasnever appreciated the extraordinary contributions of immigrants… theneed to make a new social contract between all the citizens and thestate so that we know what we stand for”.
“Hundreds of thousands of true sons and daughters of this greatnation stormed into London to sound off about how deprived they are andhow they feel victims of prejudice so bad that, according to the Princeof Wales, they are even worse off than blacks and gays. Howintolerable! My heart breaks at the thought of those poor, flushedapple cheeks of country Brits as they watch us blacks and those queersovertaking them in the gallop to privilege…
Oh I hear you yelping all right… Are those who object to mythinking absolutely sure that the Countryside Alliance really wouldlike multiracial Britain to invade its pure little village? Would theywelcome a beautiful temple or mosque to stand with the small churchspires if a substantial number of us did manage to sneak in by cheatingestate agents?… Most shameful of all have been the recent outburstsover asylum centres in countryside locations.”
“Bit by bit, the very essence of Britishness is being transformed…I will… spend my life helping to make a more inclusive and dynamicnew nation, instead of making do with the decaying remnants of a longgone past.”
“Xenophobia and imperial arrogance lurk inside most white Britons”.
“Until the people of this country can apologise for their imperial past, none of us can move on”.
