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Sporting villagers restrained by political madness
By Donald Trelford
(Filed: 23/05/2005)
Cuddington is a village near Northwich in the heart of the Cheshire countryside that contains a yoghurt factory. Local recreational facilities consist of two full-size football pitches and tennis courts and a children's playground. The footballers change in a deteriorating prefab and there is a run-down hut for the youth club and boy scouts.
The enterprising villagers set about fund-raising for a new village community centre, properly designed and costed. The football coaches went on courses to obtain the qualifications needed to enable the club to acquire Football Foundation status.
Then they applied for support from the National Lottery and went successfully through all the rounds bar one, falling at the final hurdle. They were 'disqualified' because - wait for it - there was not sufficient "ethnic community mix" in the village.
I can see the case for directing Lottery funds towards sports complexes in deprived inner cities to keep youths of all races off the streets and away from crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour. But to apply the ethnic test so rigidly to areas outside the inner cities, where the population is over 90 per cent white, is not only political correctness gone mad, but likely to stoke up racial resentment.
In effect, young people in places like Cuddington are being disadvantaged simply because they are white. My source says: "The village has hardly any non-white residents, so what can it do - import some clandestine asylum seekers?"
http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/sport/m...23/ixsport.html
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Obviously a town so disgustingly white must be evidence of some kind of discrimination against minorities. Down with the evil whites!
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Caligastia
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Originally posted by Verto
It is impossible to be racist against a non-minority. |
No such thing as a racist white in South Africa then!
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Caligastia
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quote:
Originally posted by General Ludd
Racism doesn't even have to play into it. It's bad for the town on just a practical level - having no good resturants, for instance. |
European cuisine - ugh!
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Worthingtons
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Pride Park,Derby
Jan 2002
time: 05:22
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It doesnt seem right. Positive discrimination isnt any better than negative. A few people are having a birthday with it because they are are either anti-minorities or pro-minorities but either way there can be no excuse for discrimination.
The Lottery has been known for some time to distribute its funds to 'dubious' causes and this is probably no exception.
There is probably people high up in the ranks that see it as a political victory, but how can it be? all it will seek to do is further widen any racial divide that was present in that region.
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:22
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Originally posted by Gibsie
Where's all the right wingers with their, "It's a private group, they can do what they like!" attitude?
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What's wrong with that and how is it right wing?
The only reason why it wouldn't fit here is because that group is not private.
Last edited by Ecthy on 26-05-2005 at 15:55
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C0ckney
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Big Up The Macedonian Massive
Apr 2000
time: 05:22
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this is a very bad example, but i guess the point is about having race or ethnicity as a criteria for dishing out lottery funds.
a better example would have been the lifeboat charities who were denied funding because they didn't save enough 'non-whites or asylum seekers'.
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