Black Marks

Well, of course Trump supporters are trying to get Kanye West onto the ballot in those swing states where he might still qualify. Would that he could be on the ballot everywhere. 

Today’s seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is a reminder of just how bad the Democratic Party has been. That party is also the most successful white supremacist organisation in history, having spent a century and a half running the South.

But in 2020, it cannot get away with expecting the slaves to bring in the electoral cotton for Strom Thurmond’s eulogist, the restorer of the federal death penalty, the father of the prison-industrial complex, and the man who opposed bussing because he did not want his children to grow up in a “racial jungle”. This year, even black members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are losing their primaries to Black Lives Matter activists.

There are times to regret “as America goes, so goes Britain”. This is not one of those times. Candidates will be organised across the Black Wall that Keir Starmer has single-handedly built for demolition, and Conservatives will be doing everything possible to assist them.

The results will sent exactly the right message to and about a former Director of Public Prosecutions who had effectively killed off the Forde Inquiry into racism among the party’s staff, who had presided over the victimisation of black women MPs, who had dismissed Black Lives Matter as a “moment”, who had identified with those who had taken selfies alongside the bodies of black murder victims, who had replaced Diane Abbott with an all-white Shadow Home Office team that had repeatedly been outflanked on the left by Priti Patel, who had promoted Jess Phillips, who rejected self-determination for Kashmir, who indicated his view of self-determination for the Chagos Islands by revelling in his role in the torture of Julian Assange, who had refused to bring charges in relation to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, and who failed to oppose the early lifting of the lockdown despite the far higher risk of Covid-19 to people of colour.