I don't like "BAME", either. I use it, but it was obviously invented by a committee. Whereas the old term "politically black", while it now looks like a product of American academia, was in fact of British origin, and it came from the streets. It may be worth bringing it back.
The young men who are twice as likely as their white peers to be fined for breaches of the lockdown are politically black. People's problems have all sorts of roots, but the roots of theirs at least include the fact that they are not white, or not white enough. Whatever else they may also be, that makes them politically black.
Especially but not exclusively in our youth, politically black men are always at the sharp end, because Anglo-American culture's fear of us is fundamental. Which trade created an Anglo-American culture, as such? Well, there you are, then.
Donald Trump has many, many faults. But he has never been Strom Thurmond's eulogist, the father of the prison-industrial complex, the restorer of the federal death penalty, or the man who opposed bussing because he did not want his children to grow up in "a racial jungle".
And Boris Johnson has made off-colour remarks, so to speak, about letterboxes, and picaninnies, and so on. But he has never been the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The young men who are twice as likely as their white peers to be fined for breaches of the lockdown are politically black. People's problems have all sorts of roots, but the roots of theirs at least include the fact that they are not white, or not white enough. Whatever else they may also be, that makes them politically black.
Especially but not exclusively in our youth, politically black men are always at the sharp end, because Anglo-American culture's fear of us is fundamental. Which trade created an Anglo-American culture, as such? Well, there you are, then.
Donald Trump has many, many faults. But he has never been Strom Thurmond's eulogist, the father of the prison-industrial complex, the restorer of the federal death penalty, or the man who opposed bussing because he did not want his children to grow up in "a racial jungle".
And Boris Johnson has made off-colour remarks, so to speak, about letterboxes, and picaninnies, and so on. But he has never been the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Boris Johnson’s never made any racist remarks that Ive seen. His use of “picanninnies” was in the context of a Telegraph column satirising the patronising racism of liberals (namely Tony and Cherie Blair) not endorsing that racist attitude himself.
ReplyDeleteHis comment about letterboxes was ridiculing an item of clothing, not a race, and an item of clothing worn by people all races (including white Albanian, Bosnian and Chechen Muslims) because Islam is of course a religion not a race. And it doesn’t even mandate the wearing of them.
He knew what he was doing. But he has never been DPP.
DeleteRead the column (“If Blair’s so good at running the Congo, let him stay there”). In the preceding sentence he writes “he and Cherie shine the light of their countenances upon the people of Afghanistan and, who knows, perhaps the place is now rife with feminism, habeas corpus and multi-party democracy.”
ReplyDeleteHe then satirises the racist attitude of such people to the foreigners they purport to be helping, as they jet around the world showing off. He was describing their attitude, not his.
He knows how to dogwhistle. He knew what he was doing. But Starmer is far worse. Starmer has done racist things.
DeleteLibellous comment spotted.
DeleteIf you mean against Starmer, he wouldn't dare. Have his record as DPP tested in court for racism, and on only the civil burden of proof? No chance.
DeleteBut anyone who says the article was racist simply can’t tell the difference between satire and reality. It’s like saying that Ricky Gervais is racist because David Brent used racist language.
ReplyDeleteAs for his letterboxes comment we don’t need to go into the fact that criticism of Islamic practices cannot be racist (since Islam is just a set of ideas anyone of any race can choose or reject) nor that most Muslims don’t wear that silly garment and think it is just as ridiculous as we do.
Starmer’s main failing was cringeing to the woke brigade by taking the knee to that extreme Marxist organisation (which demands we “dismantle capitalism”, “disrupt the Western proscribed” institution of marriage and “defund the police”) and then submitting to the sinister Soviet-style rubbish of “unconscious bias training.” Far from being racist he’s totally in bed with the dreadful “woke” Levellers who have just destroyed the centuries old choir music of Sheffield Cathedral.
You are just blathering now.
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