You guys never tell me anything. Clapton, 1976:
I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking (indecipherable) don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck’s sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he’s a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he’s our man, he’s on our side, he’ll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he’s on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!
Okay, now back to my regularly scheduled life of never thinking about Eric Clapton at all ever.
Obviously, they’re too busy bashing Israel to have worked out that one. You’re correct, of course.
@10: Yeah, that might be ironic if it isn’t obvious that a lot of white men in romantic relationships with Asian women do so out of a creepy Orientalist fetish. Not saying Clapton and his wife *don’t* have a happy, healthy, equal relationship … Moreover, some racists have a hilarious blindspot when it comes to their loved ones. “Well, YOU’RE different.”
I dunno, I have trouble believing that someone who’s really a racist would say “I’m into racism.” Bigots tend not to want to believe they’re bigots. It seems like he’s being rather hyperbolic in this quote, so it could be intended satirically… On the other hand, Clapton isn’t really the sort of person I’d expect deep thoughts from, so.. I’m not sure what to make of it.
I remember reading on subway walls and tenement halls that Clapton Is God. Now I realized that they meant Old Testament.
Anyway, those remarks were especially ironic considering they’re coming from a guy who made megabucks off blues music. I’m guessing he’s grown up in the intervening 35 years.
Too bad almost everything that Enoch Powell predicted in his “Rivers of Blood” speech has come true. Look it up and compare it to reality, or stay in denial. Your choice!
@57: Fuck off, racist.
@57
LOOK UP THE SPEECH
COMPARE IT TO PRESENT-DAY REALITY
SEE HOW TRUE AND ACCURATE HE WAS.
Or. continue to deny easily-observable facts of reality like a stereotypical willfully blind, willfully naive, embarrassingly earnest sheltered white Seattle liberal hypocrite who lives in one of the whitest cities in the USA
“The “wogs” want their blues back.”
Note: wogs are not blacks. They’re “western oriental gentlemen”.
@59: Perhaps you are hard of hearing. I said “Fuck off, racist.”
@61 wow your amazingly impotent epithet made all the facts of reality vanishike magic!
LOOK UP THE SPEECH
COMPARE IT TO PRESENT-DAY REALITY
SEE HOW TRUE AND ACCURATE HE WAS.
Or. continue to deny easily-observable facts of reality like a stereotypical willfully blind, willfully naive, embarrassingly earnest sheltered white VANCOUVER BC liberal hypocrite who lives in one of the whitest cities in NORTH AMERICA.
Europe and America are being overrun by barbarians just like Rome was as it collapsed. He’s right.
@41 as a 20-year long season ticket holder for a British football club, and having travelled to half the league grounds, I have NEVER ONCE seen that. I’ve heard some racist stuff on the terraces, had people try to recruit me to the BNP, EDL, etc – but I have never seen someone get beaten up for ‘being foreign’. Never. Not once.
To everyone saying ‘Enoch Powell was right, let us investigate this thesis.
ENOCH SAID: “In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”
OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE SAYS: Not true. Not even true 35 years on. Not even close.
ENOCH SAID: “There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million.”
OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE SAYS: Black people account for 2% of the 2001 census of 59 million, so somewhere in the region of 1.2 million.
ENOCH SAID: “Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party’s policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.”
OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE SAYS: About as many people emigrate as immigrate to the UK at a level roughly commensurate with population growth.
@62: You are a moron. You are too stupid and ignorant to even have a decent argument with. All you ever do is quote cherry-picked crime statistics that support your simplistic white-skin-good, brown-skin-bad world view. You have no appreciation of historic and social trends. You have no ability to understand the complex interplay of race, class, income, discrimination, education, and many other factors that result in different rates of crime among different populations.
Even your cherry-picked statistics are suspect. You don’t even know that – far from being “one of the whitest cities in North America” – Vancouver is incredibly ethnically diverse with a visible minority population of almost 50%. In Richmond, where I live, there is a visible minority population of over 65%.
“Fuck off, racist,” is all the argument you and your pathetic white power bullshit deserve.
And that goes for you too, Basehead. You’re just as fucking bad as the anonymous troll.
What the fuck is a “wog” anyway?
@18 and 51- Oh, it’s just white folks?
This speech is totally offensive and it is from the 70’s yet it how Obama’s spiritual advisor, Jermiah Wright, talks about Jews 30 years later. Louis Farrakhan talks about Jews this way and speaks at colleges all accross the country and no anti-racist activists show up to protest. Heard a recent interview with Ice Cube and he stil openly condoned hate crimes against Asians.
ps- if Clapton offended you take a look at what Jesse Jackson said about Obama 2 years ago. It’s much worse.
@18 and 51- Oh, it’s just white folks?
This speech is totally offensive and it is from the 70’s yet it how Obama’s spiritual advisor, Jermiah Wright, talks about Jews 30 years later. Louis Farrakhan talks about Jews this way and speaks at colleges all accross the country and no anti-racist activists show up to protest. Heard a recent interview with Ice Cube and he stil openly condoned hate crimes against Asians.
ps- if Clapton offended you take a look at what Jesse Jackson said about Obama 2 years ago. It’s much worse.
@67
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg
That insipid piece of crap “Wondeful Tonight” was much more offensive than any spoken word that’s ever come out of Clapton’s mouth.
Say what you like about Eric Claptout, couldn’t give a toss, But Enoch Powell was on the ball. Take a look at the UK now, WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!!!!!