Radio Rootz' This Day in History

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English politician Enoch Powell made his very controversial ‘Rivers of Blood Speech’. This speech, which he made right as the Race Relations Bill was going through Parliament, expressed the xenophobic and racist views that were common among Britain’s conservative population. He suggested that Britain’s white population was superior to immigrants and non-whites, and that white citizens had a moral right to discriminate on the grounds of race. Ironically, much of Britain’s non-white and immigrant populations had been recruited as laborers from former British colonies.