Archive for the ‘racism’ Category
Diane Abbott’s tweet and the red herring of anti-white racism
Gavan Titley and I wrote in The Guardian that Shortly after the end of the Stephen Lawrence trial, Abbott’s remarks are being used as a chance to restore white victimhood.
Stephen Lawrence killers found guilty
Finally, after 18 years two of the killers of Stephen Lawrence have been found guilty. Too little, too late perhaps but an important day for justice for the victims of racism.
Dale Farm Eviction
Travellers who have been living at the Dale farm site in Basildon in Essex (UK) are being forcibly evicted from their homes today, October 19 2011. Police, using bulldozers and tasers which have seriously injured two people are removing men, women and children because, as this cabbie filming himself on youtube puts it, they ‘don’t like Travellers’. The history of abuse against travellers, Roma and Gipsies in Europe is long and dark. The threat posed to the order of things by peoploe who refuse to conform to ‘modern’ ways of life seems to be so great that any measure can be used to coerce them into complying with the rules.
For more, visit the Dale Farm Solidarity Campaign
I don’t even know where to begin
This has been a week rich in racist pickings, if ever there was one that was not. First we had IMF chief, French Socialist Dominique Strauss Kahn’s arrest for allegedly raping a Guinean hotel worker in his $3,000 a night hotel room in New York. DSK’s (as the French media affectionately call him) history as a sexual predator and the collusion in covering this up by the left-wing media in France has been documented by the Les mots sont importants collective. Read the rest of this entry »
Racists of Europe Unite!
Stolen from the brilliant Steve Bell
So David Cameron has been given Marine Le Pen’s blessing. As the new head of the racist French party, the Front national, she says,
It is exactly this type of statement that has barred us from public life [in France] for 30 years… I sense an evolution at European level, even in classic governments. I can only congratulate him.
Marine Le Pen is right to point out that what used to be beyond the pale, is now acceptable speech. White Europeans everywhere are now ‘daring’ to say what they always thought about black people, migrants, and Muslims having been given the go ahead by their politicians. As Seumas Milne points out in the The Guardian, Cameron’s anti-Muslim racism is nothing new: “much of the ground for Cameron’s neocon turn was laid by Tony Blair and New Labour – and politicians such as Phil Woolas, who unsuccessfully tried to play the Islamophobic card to save his skin.” Read the rest of this entry »
David Cameron Jumps on the Bandwagon of anti-Multiculturalism
We need ‘a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active, muscular liberalism.’
David Cameron has announced that the ‘doctrine of state multiculturalism’ has encouraged different cultures to live separate lives. He went on to say that, while we are quick to condemn white racism (really?), we are ‘too cautious’ when someone who isn’t white holds ‘equally objectionable views’. Read the rest of this entry »
EDL Appearance on Newsnight Exemplifies Postracialism
Excerpt published on the Muslim Council of Britain site
Ours is a righteous cause,” says Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) of the English Defence League, “Alright, OK,” replies Jeremy Paxman, anchor of BBC2′s flagship news programme Newsnight, “A lot of people are worried, I believe you.
The decision to invite the EDL to appear on Newsnight on February ahead of the its march on Luton planned for February 5, touted as the “the biggest demonstration in its 18-month history” according to The Guardian, was ill-informed. Those interested in engaging in the ‘no platform’ debate may do so. However, what was more striking about the Newsnight appearance was Paxman’s ultimate inability to counter the incendiary, anti-Muslim statements tripping off Lennon’s tongue. Inability or unwillingness? Read the rest of this entry »
Racism Reviewed
“Lentin’s book is not only an accessible survey of scholarly writing on the nature of racism but is also a powerful intervention in its own right.”
Arun Kundnani of the Institute of Race Relations, and author of the excellent The End of Tolerance, has written a thoughtful review of Racism: A Beginner’s Guide here.