To:   mayor@london.gov.uk
Re:    The Mayor of London's City for an Asian Century
Date:  Friday 7 April 06

Dear Ken,

This will be "the Asian century", you say in today's Guardian (A city for the Asian century): never mind the colour of a person's skin; all that matters is the colour of their money, i.e. power and economics. "That which is best in our culture . . .  will survive. Any traits that do not deserve to survive . . . will be undermined by brutal economic facts," you continue. That is socio-economic Darwinism. And it really is brutal - because rooted in man's primitive animal nature. It is depressing the way, right across the political spectrum (from far left to far right), this is accepted and submitted to.
 
I would like to live in a world (a socio-economic order) that is ruled, not by our animal nature, but by our more enlightened human nature - in which a person's skin colour (as an indicator of origin, relatedness, difference and diversity) is more important than the colour of their money (i.e. the power money gives them over others).
 
I shudder, Ken, at your vision of the world, driven and shaped by economic forces rooted in man's primitive animal nature.
 

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