“No Representation Without Separation”

By D I Gillam

Come election time, it’s far from abnormal for the media to give valuable broadcasting space and column inches to minority group leaders and their hangers-on. They do this to let them complain about the lack of ‘representation’ in Parliament and the major parties. After this follows the familiar procedure of raising quotas and designing epic propaganda campaigns to ‘break down barriers to inclusion’. The list of institutions and areas of life which is insufficiently ‘inclusive’ is comprehensive and includes business, the countryside, higher education, managing football teams, the armed forces, and the police.

Minority ethnic groups don’t seem to have a problem with having their group status recognised when it suits them. They don’t mind being acknowledged as different when there aren’t enough of them in the Commons (to my knowledge, MP’s are in fact elected to represent the people in their constituencies, not races, cultures or religions). Yet if one were to suggest that the state officially label these people as different from the majority community and say that ethnic groups should be treated as separate political categories, a perfectly logical proposition for facilitating ‘representation’, I wonder what their response would be?

One could ask the same sort of question about all the other demands for ‘representation’. Take higher education for example. Under the law someone from a minority ethnic background has as much right to enter university as someone from the White community, so the issue isn’t about civil rights. If there are considered too few minority students in higher education then minority groups automatically want their group status recognised and action taken to ensure ‘representation’ in the relevant institutions. But if one were to suggest the establishment of a separate education system for ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority, again I wonder what the response would be? Or if, as Trevor Phillips once complained, there aren’t enough Black football managers; how about a separate black football league? That should sort that one out. Or how about separate ethnic communities altogether?

The problem with minority ethnic groups is that they simultaneously want to be recognised and not recognised for what they are. As a host community, Whites are supposed to be colour-blind on one hand, yet colour conscious when it’s demanded of us. If they want to be treated as part of the same community, then why the need for individual community ‘representation’? On the other hand, if minorities do not feel that the majority is acting with their interests in mind, then surely they should jump at the chance to have separate facilities that are populated and run by themselves, for themselves. However, it is unlikely that the argument for ethnic segregation would be met with anything other than anti-racist hysteria.

The point is this. The minorities want representation without separation. This means they want to advance their own tribal interests in our society and at our expense and this has nothing to do with equality. The ‘community of communities’ so beloved of the left is essentially a form of cultural federalism, much like the United States is an example of political federalism. Each State in the Union is separate with regard to the others but all are represented within a common body at the federal level. But imagine if the federal body did not exist and the State of Alabama for instance demanded to be ‘represented’ within the legislature of the other States. This could only be seen as nothing more than Alabama trying to take over its neighbours. This analogy describes exactly what the minorities are doing to us. I am in no way a fan of the idea of the ‘community of communities’ but it doesn’t even exist in the way the left describe it anyway. The only umbrella community, is OUR community. We are not granted separate representation in a ‘multicultural community’ because our culture is plainly intended to form the federal matrix within which all the other cultures are to live and thrive. We are thus being eaten alive.

The original thirteen colonies of the United States coined a term in their struggle for independence. “No Taxation Without Representation”. In our struggle, I suggest we coin a similar slogan; “No Representation Without Separation”. This means that if minority groups do insist on having a distinct voice and on being represented at all levels of UK life as in a federal structure, then they must officially declare themselves separate from the majority community and stop treating our cultural life as common property. Technically, this isn’t even opposed to the basic tenets of multiculturalism. This is not a permanent solution to this nightmare of course, but segregation is the first step towards repatriation.