Prof Alf Baird: “On the matter of colonial racism, the dilemma for the colonizer and associated pathology (also affecting the colonized, but in a different way) is the real issue in a colonial society, according to Albert Memmi. Having habitually described the colony and its native people in mostly negative form, as in there being “no merits in the colonial community, recognizing neither its traditions, nor its laws, nor its ways, he (the colonizer) cannot acknowledge belonging to it himself”. And, no longer living in his native land, the result is that “the colonialist is unsure of his true nationality (because) he navigates between a faraway society… and a present society which he rejects and keeps in the abstract.” Thus, the characteristic which completes Memmi’s ‘portrait of the colonizer’, is that “the colonialist resorts to racism…. (as) racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.” And colonial racism is essentially what we see in repeated anti-Scottish and anti-independence discourse, for “racism is a con-substantial part of colonialism.”