England Riots
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mapoui
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The day after the heaviest night of rioting I saw Darcus Howe, originally from Trinidad and former editor of Race and Class, now a broadcaster and columnist, being questioned by a snotty BBC interviewer, Fiona Armstrong. We ran it last week as website of the day. Howe linked the riots to upsurges by the oppressed across the Middle East and then remarked that when he’d recently asked his son how many times he’d been stopped and searched by the police, his boy answered that it had happened too often for him to count.
The day after the heaviest night of rioting I saw Darcus Howe, originally from Trinidad and former editor of Race and Class, now a broadcaster and columnist, being questioned by a snotty BBC interviewer, Fiona Armstrong. We ran it last week as website of the day. Howe linked the riots to upsurges by the oppressed across the Middle East and then remarked that when he’d recently asked his son how many times he’d been stopped and searched by the police, his boy answered that it had happened too often for him to count.
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mikesiva
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Here's more on the outcry David Starkey provoked with his rubbish....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/1 ... ites-black" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I always felt he was a poor TV historian, especially when compared to the excellent Simon Schama, but after this ridiculous diatribe, he's fallen even further in my estimation, if that was possible. How can he be blaming the looting on black people and the influence of Jamaican patois, and still claim to be a discerning historian? And then he goes on to excuse the white looters by saying they were 'trying to be black' by following the looting? It goes to show that race is still very much a part of the reaction to the looting, especially through certain sections of the media, and it's not helped when people who should know better (such as Starkey) perpetuate that myth with that nonsense about these riots fulfilling Enoch Powell's clearly racist claim that immigration leading to rivers of blood being fulfilled by black rioting in England's cities. Clearly, he needs to take a look at these stories....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... court.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
How many of these convicted rioters are black? Less than a quarter....
And what about the two facebookers who were handed four-year sentences? Both were white....
Of course, Starkey will probably tell us they were trying to be black....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/1 ... ites-black" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I always felt he was a poor TV historian, especially when compared to the excellent Simon Schama, but after this ridiculous diatribe, he's fallen even further in my estimation, if that was possible. How can he be blaming the looting on black people and the influence of Jamaican patois, and still claim to be a discerning historian? And then he goes on to excuse the white looters by saying they were 'trying to be black' by following the looting? It goes to show that race is still very much a part of the reaction to the looting, especially through certain sections of the media, and it's not helped when people who should know better (such as Starkey) perpetuate that myth with that nonsense about these riots fulfilling Enoch Powell's clearly racist claim that immigration leading to rivers of blood being fulfilled by black rioting in England's cities. Clearly, he needs to take a look at these stories....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... court.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
How many of these convicted rioters are black? Less than a quarter....
And what about the two facebookers who were handed four-year sentences? Both were white....
Of course, Starkey will probably tell us they were trying to be black....
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Gils
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Damning, you're really an exceedingly staunch separatist aren't youand its interesting dat deh call Howe a westindian. Howe has been living in England as far as I know fro some 40-50 years of his life
Darcus Howe is now a Trinidadian-born englishman,
. There go's any pretense of Caribbean unity
. It naturally follows that you agree with Afro re - real Caribbeans
.