Ministering to immigrants

Abstract

"I have been asked to write about "West Indians" in Britain. This is not an easy assignment, because the subject of race relations is complex as well as explosive. "The Race Relations Industry" as it is called has produced a national Commission and a network of local councils with full-time and part-time officers. The situation varies from one area of immigrant settlement to another. Some, at least, of the abundant literature available suggests that there are as many opinions in this field as there are writers. On such a subject no-one can pose as an expert, least of all a pastor ~hose experience of multi-racial communities in this country IS confined to one London suburb. All he can do is to offer the conclusions to which his limited experience and reading seem to point, in the hope that they w:iJ.l be of value to others"