David Starkey has been allowed to empower genocidal racists for too long
Starkey is not a very good historian of British history, so to expect him to know much about anywhere else in the world is stretching it.
His lies about the slave trade were just the latest in a long line of racist utterances.
During the 2011 riots, which involved more white people than black, Starkey claimed it was only happening because white kids “were turning black”.
People like Starkey – and fellow travellers such as ex-leftie Melanie Phillips, Rod Liddle, Toby Young etc – give cover to the fascists on the streets that like to attack and kill people who don’t look like them.
In case you missed Starkey’s latest vile racist diatribe here it is (from the Telegraph):
In an interview with the conservative commentator Darren Grimes, the historian said slavery could not be classed as genocide because of the survival of “so many damn blacks”.
“Slavery was not genocide,” he said.
“Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?
“An awful lot of them survived.”
Dr Starkey went on to discuss the relationship between slavery and the British Empire.
“As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago,” he said.
“We don’t normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn’t have the vote and weren’t allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.”
Labour’s Starmer attacks BLM and then apologises to black journalists
updated Monday 6th July 13:45 BST: A picket of the Labour Party NEC meeting to call out the leaderships racism has been called for Tuesday 7th July at 10am. More details here.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, a former state prosecutor, has gone out of his way to ingratiate himself with the establishment and the media in this country.
In addition to bashing the left in his own party, he has been showing to the powers that be that they have nothing at all to fear from a Labour party led by him.
The Starmer way: soft on the Tories, hard on the left and anti-racists
This is what explains the Labour party’s supine response to the government mishandling of the pandemic response.
In fact at one point the Labour leadership was calling for the lifting of the lockdown even before the Tories were.
But the attitude that Starmer (who is after all pretty much a member of the establishment given that he is a knight of the realm) has taken to Black Lives Matter has shocked many in the black community.
Starmer when asked about the movement basically said BLM was a bit of a joke, that the issues were all about the US, inferring that all was good here in the UK in respect of racism, and that the movement wasn’t a movement at all and, again by inference, would presumably soon be over.
In case you missed the full horror show of an interview, watch and listen carefully carefully chosen words of the lawyer. His reversal of the oft-quoted remark of protesters that his is a ‘movement not a moment’ is reversed by Starmer.
Labour alienating black supporters
The remarks from Starmer come on the back of his refusal to tackle racism in the Labour Party of to discipline staffers who racially abused black women MPs
A report by the Huffington Post (see link below) recently drew attention to the tin ear the warmed-over Blairite leadership has when it comes to racism against its black members:
Exclusive: Labour Is Losing Black Members Over Allegations Of Anti-Black Racism
The Labour party has already done a good job in alienating a fair chunk of its working-class support and now it is in danger of driving away a key constituent of hitherto loyal support.
Starmer’s comments haven’t sat well with many of his own MPs.
Another Labour MP, Florence Eshalomi, said his “choice of words [was] wrong”.
That probably explains why Starmer is now on a belated damage limitation operation.
Yesterday he did e a Q&A with black journalists at which he said: “This is not a moment for not standing with the Black Lives Matter movement and the injustice that is being exposed.”
Thanks for that Keir but the damage has been done.
Starmer visited Tottenham not so long ago and a Labour Party member sent us a photograph of the gathering of locals – remember this is Tottenham.
Here’s a game to play with your Blairite friends: spot the black person.
Actually Starmer was proud of his work in Tottenham – he posted it on Facebook. Again, remember, this is Tottenham!
You can send complaints to the Labour Party at the emails below (yes we could complain to the Conservative Party about their racism too but, seriously, why bother):
Labour East – laboureast.org.uk
East Midlands Labour – eastmidslabour.org.uk
London Labour – labourinlondon.org.uk
Labour North – labournorth.com
Labour North West – labournorthwest.org.uk
Labour South East – laboursoutheast.org.uk
Labour South West – laboursouthwest.org.uk
West Midlands Labour – westmidlandslabour.org.uk
Yorkshire and the Humber Labour – yorkshireandhumberlabour.org.uk
You can fill in the complaint form here:
Racist police share selfies of dead sisters – justice for Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry
update 30 April 2021: PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 32, have now both been charged with misconduct in public office
Sack police who refused to search for missing sisters and then shared selfies of bodies
Sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46 were murdered but the police treatment of the families has shocked the country.
The police refused to search for the sisters when the family asked for help to find them. A boyfriend of one of the sisters eventually found the bodies.
Police officers involved in the inquiry took photographs of the deceased and allegedly shared the selfies on some of their social media.
This level of dehumanisation of black women is truly horrendous, not to mention racist. The officers have been suspended.
At the least, the police officers who took the disgusting selfies should be sacked forthwith and then prosecuted for misconduct in a public office.
Two days ago an 18-year-old man was arrested after the police were forced to put resources into hunting down the suspect.
Thought they knew who she was – a black woman who lives on a council estate
The sisters’ mum, Mina Smallman, told the BBC the pictures “dehumanised” her children.
“This has taken our grief to another place,” she Mina
“If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become, those police officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on.
“It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.”
Mina added: “They [her daughters] were nothing to them and what’s worse, they sent them on to members of the public.
“I knew instantly why they didn’t care. They didn’t care because they looked at my daughter’s address and thought they knew who she was.
“A black woman who lives on a council estate.”
Keep going for Breonna Taylor – protest on Sat 11 July across the UK
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Justice for Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry
There have been calls to widen the focus of these protests to include the cases of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46.
The sisters were murdered but the police treatment of the families has shocked the country.
The police refused to search for the sisters when the family asked for help to find them. A boyfriend of one of the sisters eventually found the bodies.
Police officers involved in the inquiry took photographs of the deceased and allegedly shared the selfies on some of their social media.
This level of dehumanisation of black women is truly horrendous, not to mention racist. The officers have been suspended.
At the least, the police officers who took the disgusting selfies should be sacked forthwith and then prosecuted for misconduct in a public office.
Two days ago an 18-year-old man was arrested after the police were forced to put resources into hunting down the suspect.
Full report here.