By Keith Sellick

Forty years ago Enoch Powell made his “rivers of blood” speech.

In the past six months, I have watched a BBC documentary where the narrator said that while Powell’s language was regrettable he was right. I have listened to a BBC radio programme, the Real Source, that claimed Powell wasn’t a racist (on the evidence of a speech in 1959 in which he said that Englishmen should not apply African standards in Africa), and read a variety of right-wingers parading their “Enoch was right” line along with the daily outpourings of racist lies from sections of the media.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2008/04/1968-enoch-powell-wasnt-right-1.html