Socialist Outlook

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Sniping from the Left

Socialist Outlook no. 35, June 2000 · 206 words

HAS Jack Straw fallen victim to his campaign to outdo the Tories racism? Is he really beginning to believe all the rubbish about 'bogus' refugees?

On May 9, he shared a platform in Church House in London, with the bogus social scientist Charles murray, best known for Bis book The Bell Curoe. This Hated? argues that black people ard genetically more stupid than whites. The book is a best seller with white racists, delighted to have their prejudices 'scientifically" veriNext he will probably search for some proof that Romanies also have genetic defects and that non lillywhite Anglo-Saxons are inferior species, justifying plans to put them into conAn ethnic When he went to the evacuation centre in Freetown, hoping to join the other evacuees, he was tumed He was a child when his mother returned from Britain in Brazil. her British passport. Since then he had no need for it. London and an aunt working for the probation service. Sa why can he not be evacuBlack and Sorry, said the British official in charge of the evacuation, nothing doing. Not only white did he have no passport, he was black. issue Horror of black peas.

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