Church is mobilised to warn immigrant families after claims of racist behaviour in the classroom
Anushka Asthana and Mary Fitzgerald
It is a difficult social and cultural problem: what to do when tens of thousands of immigrants from an almost wholly white country arrive in a nation that has a fierce pride in its multicultural mix?
It is an issue affecting the many Poles coming to Britain, who are being warned to be ready for a country where being black or Asian is not unusual and it is wrong to react ‘negatively’ to people of different races. The message has been spread through Catholic priests in Poland and is aimed at families moving to the UK from all-white towns and villages. The Polish Educational Society of London approached the priests following claims of racist behaviour among Polish children and their parents. Headteachers reported that pupils were moving their desks away from Asian and black children in fear and saying that white people were superior.In one case Polish children drew pictures of apes sitting in palm trees and claimed this was what their black classmates looked like, while in a school in Acton, west London, a group of teenagers hurled daily abuse at non-white staff and pupils. According to headteachers, some parents asked whether their children would be taught by ‘darkies’.
Aleksandra Podhorodecka, president of the society, which runs Saturday schools for Polish children, said she hoped that the priests would ‘pass on a simple forewarning that it will be a multicultural society and they need to behave appropriately’. She said: ‘It is difficult to blame the children, because a lot come from rural societies in eastern Poland where there are very few immigrants and some children have never seen West Indians or Asians in the flesh. So to suddenly be thrown into a school with 100 different languages, cultures and religions is a cultural shock.’ In a minority of cases, she said, children would react aggressively, but she insisted that most Polish families were very tolerant.
Ania Heasley, who runs a recruitment and employment agency for Polish people, said there were parents whose main criterion when moving to the UK was to find a place to live and a school for their children where there were fewer black people. ‘I try to argue and say, if you do not like the racial makeup, why do you come here?’ said Heasley, whose company is called Ania’s Poland. ‘Everybody is white in Poland, apart from a few students. If you see a black person in the street everybody turns their head because they look out of place.’
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057514,00.html
One effective multicult tactic is to demean their enemies; this article, speaking as it does of the supposed “ignorance” and “confusion” of Poles (who supposedly have to rely on churchmen to explain life to them!), plays to the “dumb Pollack” slander which, along with “redneck,” is still “acceptable” to the politically correct, who like to think of themselves as urbane sophisticates. And only a Guardian grunt would pretend there is a “fierce pride in [the UK’s multicultural mix”: anti-immigration sentiment is at an all-time high, as reflected in the record number of British National Party hopefuls on ballots up and down the UK in the upcoming elections. Even Prime Minister Tony Blair has decried the literally homicidal effect of black life in the UK. (And imagine a headline like “Law Against Murder Confuses Blacks”!)
The fact is that the Poles have not been beaten down by generations of engineered chaos, and rose in resistance to overthrow their own oppressors, the communists. So powerful is the threat of Poles and other Eastern Europeans to the antiwhite status quo that the UK’s “diversity Tsar” has attacked them for their native “intolerance” before.
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