![]() The Indian was incapable of democracy because he was not a rational individual he had not learned to overcome his communalism, the “curse of India” as Powell would later call it. In 1947, after the Raj had been dissolved, he stared in horror as the Punjab was engulfed in large-scale communal violence. ![]() Powell’s wish to “Keep Britain White!” was based on his long experience dealing with the non-whites of the British Raj, where he had once aspired to becoming Indian Viceroy. His stance was neither shaped by physical anthropology nor by questions of race differences in intelligence on this latter subject, he professed himself agnostic. Enoch Powell, “Rivers of Blood” and the Fate of White Canada: Part I by Ferdinand Bardamu Enoch Powell giving “Rivers of Blood” speech, 1968 As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’- Enoch Powell I: Enoch Powell’s “Racism” The archconservative Enoch Powell remained, for many years, at the forefront of Tory opposition to Third World immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, at least until his death in 1998. ![]()
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