Powell was just pointing out that racism exists and was growing. At a time when some aspects were not being mentioned deliberately as it would encourage it.
If Powell was "just pointing out that racism exists and was growing", why did he so vociferously object to, and campaign against the Race Relations Act?
Surely, logically, anyone who was 'concerned' about racism existing and growing would be supportive of the proposed Race Relations Act. But no, he objected to the proposed Act to legitimise racial discrimination.
Racial discrimination, even violence, may have been popular, but it was about to become illegal under the proposed Act, which Powell vigorously campaigned against.
Powell quoted one of his constituents, (who has never been identified and is suspected as being imaginary) as saying, "In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man".
In that sentence alone, Powell not only recognised the subservience of an ethnic minority, but was campaigning to maintain that status quo. Powell feared a scenario where an ethnic minority would be dominant, even though there was no such danger of it happening. He, like others since, (Farage, Tommy Robinson, NF, et al), have been promoting hysteria against ethnic minorities, now known as populism.
He used similar emotive imaginary scenarios as those exploited by Farage and Tommy Robinson, like: "It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre." He was prophesying the end of Great Britain if immigration continued in order to invoke hatred against ethnic minorities.
As I've said so many times before, racists will exploit any hook to promote their hatred and division.
Powell campaigned for voluntary, and even involuntary, repatriation of immigrants.
He used similar arguments about lack of infrastructure for indigenous people, as frequently used today, as populist arguments against immigration. Arguments which we know today to be built on falsehoods:
They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted.
He was a typical racist, disguising his ideology, his hatred for foreigners, with concern for the indigenous people.
That was why he was thrown out of the Tory Party, and why he became known as one of the most divisive politicians in UK history.
He even reckoned Boris would make a good PM.
