sore epee nae SERIE EASES i eRe a AT a |Doug Collins @ get this straight @ We “‘racists’’ are a much maligned lot. Having great regard for the public weal, we try to inform. But parsons, social workers, academics, politicians, editorial writers and other high-class people take no notice. They inhabit the kingdom of the deaf. There are myriad examples of the realities of race, the latest of which is Fiji. | am not an expert on that country, having been there for only a few houxs on my way to a better place. But the situation is clear enough. The native Fijians hate the East Indians, whom the natives con- sider to be usurpers. The East In- dians don’t have much time for the native Fijians, either. Similar- ly, the Sinhalese detest the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Greeks hate the Turks in Cyprus, and the Malays - can’t stand the Chinese in Malaysia. It’s the same story all over the world where different races meet in large numbers. In Fiji, the coup stems from the wish of the natives to be masters in their own house, just as the French have become masters in their own house in Quebec, if I may make so bold as to point that out. | It is only the . demoralized residents of the Western world, it seems, who don’t want to be masters of anything and will kiss any bum that is presented to them. So if the revolution in Fiji B.C. official tree sought AN OFFICIAL British Columbia. tree will be selected to com- memorate the 75th anniversary of the B.C. Forest Service. The Ministry of Forests and Lands and the British Columbia Forest Association will coordinate the project, organize the selection process, appoint a British Colum- -bia Free Council to represent all interest groups, and recommend an official provincial tree to the minister for proclamation by the - provincial government. . B.C. already has an. official flower, the Pacific dogwood — proclaimed in 1956, and an official mineral, jade — declared in 1968. Two other provinces have declared official trees: Alberta, the jodsepole pine, and Ontario, the white pine: lasts and the race situation there worsens, it is likely that Canada will be doing a lot more kissing. You can always depend on Ot- tawa for that sort of thing. And the prediction is that racial tensions in Fiji will worsen. Already, there have been violent attacks on the East Indians, and the Sunday Times states that coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka will use his muscle to make sure that native Fijians have a permanent majority in Parliament. The New Zealanders’ response to all this is amusing. Prime Minister David Lange of that country may be a sociaiist but he is not a fool, and having already taken a lot of Samoans he does not want a large-scale influx of East Indian refugees. He made that clear at a recent meeting of the South Pacific Forum when he rejected a pro- posal that Fiji’s East Indians be given sanctuary in New Zealand. If they are forced out of Fiji as they were out of Uganda, he said, Britain should take them. It was the Brits, he pointed out archly, who brought them to Fiji in the BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY first place. (Could he be the sole exception to the Western way of destruction through immigration?) Why he didn’t mention Canada 1 don’t know, Perhaps he isn’t aware that we are the easiest touch in the world. As for the U.K., if the Labor Party wins the June election, Neil Kinnock will open the doors of poor old Britain to yet another flood of colored im- migrants. Plus a few more riots. If Maggie Thatcher gets back, though, the pressure will be on us. Right now there are 25,000 Fijians in the Lower Mainland, and Fi- jians of any race who have a dis- tant cousin here will have no trou- ble getting in. That’s ‘family reunification’? you know, which Gerry Weiner, the immigration minister, has described as ‘‘the cornerstone of our immigration policy’’. Actually, I can’t understand why we don’t have the whole of Fiji here already, our doors being so open. The average wage there is $250 a month, yet the cost of food and clothing is as high as it is in Canada. Obviously, a Fijian would be far better off on Cana- j dian welfare: . My subversive proposal for the disposition of the East Indians of Fiji, should refuge, is that they go to India. And we should place adver- § tisements in the Suva newspapers telling them that this is a cold climate. \ The media, academics and politicians won’t hear of anything} like that, of course, so prepar thyself. . As I say, we racists have a hard time, But we’re doing what comes | naturally and we only wish that 4 everyone else would. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS iF YOU CAN’T START AT THE TOP HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO START IN THE MIDDLE? BCIT’s Operations Manage- ment Program is a stimulat- ing, practical two-year diploma course that combines engi- neering and business. The key word is MANAGEMENT. 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