"...toady's CRE spend far too much time playing politics and seem to be totally ignoring the reasons it was set up for in the first place."
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BLEATING CRE MUST STOP CRYING WOLF NOW! |
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Trevor
Phillips and his Commission for Racial Equality have been in the
news a lot recently. One report and several sets of findings later,
they're still busy doing nothing. There’s a folk tale, Trevor and company should take more notice of. It’s about some bored shepherd boy who decides to scream “wolf, wolf, wolf,” just to break up the monotony of his day, and to get noticed. So all the villagers came running out ready to defend him and his sheep, but there was no wolf. The villagers were somewhat annoyed, but relieved. Several weeks later, he did it again remembering the publicity he got out of the stuffy old villagers. So they all come steaming out, on his behalf. But again, there was no wolf. By now everyone is well annoyed at the shepherd boy, but the wolf uses the opportunity to come down to the village a bite to eat. And it did.  Now
the shepherd boy screamed and bellowed for
real: “ wolf, wolf, wolf,” but no one took any notice. And so a
genuine attack on defenceless sheep went unchecked and passed unnoticed. Later the shepherd boy came down and asked the villagers why no one came to help him and his sheep in their hour of need.. A wise villager replied: “The first time we were genuinely concerned, the second time worried and felt obligated just in case you weren’t exaggerating. But by the third time, Nigger we felt you deserved what you got despite the pain, anguish and hardship your sheep were going through.” Any publicly funded body shouldn't be used as a platform for self-promotion, pointless bleating or future political millage. Much of the CRE's gabbing this year has been about nothing and everything and in a couple of weeks we’ll probably be reading stories about black chess pieces getting a raw deal because ‘white’ always moves first. But what I can't understand from an organisation fighting for it’s future and under threat of being merged with organisations like The Disability Rights and the Human Rights Commission, is why resort to crying wolf week-in week-out when there are serious issues and causes that need championing. Sir Herman didn’t get his knighthood by sitting on his hands or playing footsie under the table with media to get half-baked nothings in the press. If the CRE are to survive they need to get behind some real issues and support some genuine campaigns. The former Mayor for London candidate [Trevor Phillips], who some BBC Online hack awarded a typo-knighthood should look down from the lofty heights of power and take note. Your flock need real help, not soft media headlines. Who gives a monkey's about the term multi-culturalism or the amount of Black people living in country villages, or over-paid Black footballers not being given a leg-up into management when ordinary, real Black people are suffering daily in ordinary situations. The CRE should stop bleating about nonsense and get busy, there's a lot of real people out there being subtly roughed up and dealt a raw deal by a society that is inherently xenophobic. Get on with it! |
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