The Wogs Begin in Calais

My beloved British godfather, Lynn Perkins, always used to warn me of the manifest evils of Europe and beyond, ‘remember, Eric, the wogs begin in Calais (pronounced ‘Callis’ by the Brits.)’ Wog is a nasty British term for oily, untrustworthy foreigners.
I recall the Perkins warning because of the upcoming British referendum to stay in the European Union or pull out. Polls suggest Brits will narrowly decide to stay in the EU; my instincts say the same.
But then again, remember all those ‘wogs.’ Britons are often too well-mannered to bring up this issue, particularly in polls. But deep down, many of Great Britain’s people still think of Europeans (Germans, Swiss and Scandinavians excepted) and all Arabs and Indians as wogs. These are people who eat smelly food with garlic and don’t turn bright red in the sun like the Brits.
That old imperialist, Winston Churchill, patron saint of America’s neocon right, dismissed India’s great Mahatma Gandhi as a ‘half-naked fakir.’ He loved the British Empire and sneered, like many of his countrymen, at ‘the lesser races.’
Problem is, that the ‘lesser races’ have poured into Britain since the 1950′s, changing its traditional character, politics, and rules. White Britons are losing ground in the new, multicultural United Kingdom, just as whites in California are headed for minority status. A lot of Brits, particularly north of London, don’t like it. Add now the flood of over a million Arab and African refugees into the Continent has many Britons in a frenzy that their happy little island faces growing troubles.

This post was published at Lew Rockwell on June 11, 2016.