Is Britain racist

Is Britain racist.

 It's a question we can ask, irrespective of our colour since the society is now such a hotchpotch of race and culture that the claim to ownership within this country has long ceased to have any meaning.
The question of being white in the society is now questioned since we are told that being white is a state of mind, bound up as it is in colonialism, slavery and an assumption of being superior.  An assumption of being "better than those 'gollywogs', to use 1950s language" who inhabit the countries from which the parents of many of the people in the audience in Oxford had left in the late 1940s. 

The challenge which the articulate black people in the audience wished to put across was that our whiteness and the attitude that goes with it is based on a false premise - that we are superior.
The vigour with which these young people decried the society of which they are now a part and the hurdles this society purportedly puts in front of them, even though they had obtained university degrees at our universities in order to articulate their disgruntlement,  is somehow symptomatic of the unreality of living here.  We are damned if we do and damned if we don't. If you don't believe their cant, you are a racist.
Of course in any society there are racist, people who hold vicious views against people of colour, but wait a minute, weren't these people in the audience also racist for holding the same sort of antagonistic judgement towards white people.
Of course history gives them a platform to protest since, it is argued, the white community, where ever they went conquered, exploited and when settled, closed ranks  barely integrating with anyone except their own, least of all with the local indigenous population
White men and women are of course not alone in determining their allegiance to what they believe they stand for and what reflects their image.
The Indian nation, the second largest nation on earth has a multi tiered system of defining people, straight jacketing and pigeon holing whole swathes of their community,  with little or no opportunity to be accepted outside the designated caste.
African tribal hierarchy is equally firm in its discrimination within its patriarchal  mix but of course, this hierarchal structure is for some reason more acceptable than plain racial bias, a discrimination according to skin colour.
To listen to the audience 'bias and prejudice' has no basis when applied from a black person towards a white person, since the black person, who came over in the late 40s was actually brought over as an act of exploitation, exploitation  of the black person by the authorities in this country designed to hold down wages in this country to support the nation in its attempt to compete world wide with the low wages paid in other countries.
Of course no allowance has ever been made toward the white population who paid host to these immigrants, arriving  in their thousands, settling where they were most needed in the industrial towns of the North. No one informed the white working class of the changes to their lives, including their ability to hold onto a job. No one smoothed the way  least of all the politicians in Westminster.
Is it any wonder there is resentment, which continues to this day, within pockets of a disgruntled, jobless white population, particularly in those  very towns in the North who were hit hardest.
No matter how often we apologise for our forefathers who were simply following the practices of the day this audience in Oxford will be forever emotionally at odds with the people who, abet reluctantly, gave them a home and an opportunity to prosper in a way their kith and kin  "back home" have never experienced.
The question of being black or white, which has been toned down over the years (forgive the pun) through the natural tolerance in people who see the practicality of getting on and discovering that the colour of the skin has little to do with the underlaying character of the person and bolstered by significantly successful Intermarriage, the sheer preponderance of 'other nations' on our high street has meant we have become more and more colour blind.
It's not irrelevant to say that if the views heard in Oxford had been espoused in a BNP meeting it would have made the news as "overt racialism" but because it is a view point from a so called 'minority group' it is apparently important we hear it if only to hear and understand "their" frustration. But what about "our" frustration.
What about the frustration of being lied to and misrepresented over the years about the highly profitable business of whole scale immigration, it's good and it's bad side and not simply ignored as a pliant, easily manipulated, politically illiterate mass of so called indigenous Brits.