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Prince Charles 'should have married black woman'
By Alice Thomson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003643439617680rtmo=gwSGjNnuatmo=r
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Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain - Runnymede
Trust
Racial equality unit - Home Office
Commission for Racial Equality
Institute of Race Relations
Runnymede trustees stay defiant to shrug off fuss
THE Prince of Wales should have married a black woman as a symbol of his
support for multi-cultural Britain, according to a member of the race
relations think tank the Runnymede Trust.
Lady Gavron, vice-chairman of the commission that produced last week's
controversial report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain, said the Royal
Family should take a lead in promoting racial integration.
"It would have been great if Prince Charles had been told to marry someone
black. Imagine what message that would have sent out," she said yesterday.
She did not want to "get rid of" the Royal Family. "We don't need them but
they're fun for tourists to look at." But she said they sent out the wrong
message about Britain today. "They're a symbol of our unmeritocratic
tendency and, of course, they're all white. It is part of a very
unattractive hierarchy."
Lady Gavron believes that Prince Charles's stated wish to be defender of
faiths rather than Defender of the Faith when he becomes Supreme Governor of
the Church of England is not enough.
Yesterday she complained that the hereditary peerage was also too
Anglo-Saxon. She said: "Anything hereditary is completely anachronistic and
illogical; you wouldn't have an hereditary cricket team. At least this
government has made some peers from ethnic minority groups."
Kate Gavron is the wife of the publisher Lord Gavron, who was made a life
peer after donating £500,000 to the Labour Party before the last general
election. The report by the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic
Britain, which was launched by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, nearly three
years ago, suggested that much of Britain's history needed to be
reappraised.
Lady Gavron said yesterday: "We need to acknowledge that there are different
ways of looking at history. The problem with the empire was the inequality
of power. It was something we did to the Indians and Africans, not with
them."
However, she does not believe that British history should be totally
rewritten. "We should keep the name Trafalgar Square. If you got rid of
everything associated with anything bad you'd have nothing at all. A lot of
street names coincided with the height of the Victorian empire and the peak
of our colonial power, but we can't scrap all of them. We'd have to start
losing the Norman names too if we were being purist."
She said she loved hymns such as Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country. "I
am embarrassed by the words but the music is wonderful."
In an interview with The Telegraph, she said that the Runnymede Trust had
received a stream of offensive telephone calls since its report was
published. "We've had non-stop hate mail. We had to turn the telephones off,
there were so many racist calls. One started, 'Dear creeps, why don't you go
and live abroad? Why not France, they're a bunch of bastards there as well.'
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