We don't need the Race Police
I am writing to say how much I agree with your editorial column regarding the need (or rather lack of need) for a race equality council in Wolverhampton. How many people even knew that the council had closed (ironically amid accusations of harassment and bullying!), and yet here we are three years later alive and well without any help whatsoever.
The reason? It's simple. Left to their own judgement people will get on with some and not get on with others; that's human nature.
Some of those we don't get on with may be from a different racial group or religion (in most cases the reason being at worst ignorance but mostly through a lack of common interest), but people from all backgrounds still (thankfully) have a fundamental right to choose their friends, their workmates and the community they live in.
If I don't get on with an individual from a different race then that's all it is; I don't get on with him/her. It doesn't mean that I will be out every night terrorising and petrol bombing minority groups out of their homes as the Race Police would like you to believe.
Why? Because only by creating a perception of fear and racial tension can they justify their very existence. A thousand positive acts of friendship and kindness between people from different races are dismissed then trumped by one negative act which will then be pounced upon and highlighted by the CRE just so as we will see what a great organisation they are and how we can't possibly survive without them.
Time has shown the closing of the Wolverhampton office to be a great success and the logical next step would be to close down such offices all over the country then abolish the CRE altogether and put the millions of pounds saved into the NHS or to looking after the elderly . . . of all races.
Gregory M Davison, St Marks Road, Dudley.
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