London Riots, Gangs Starkey and BBC's Super Babe Emily Maitlis

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As the aftershocks from last week's violent disorder ripple across Britain, a febrile mood hangs over the nation.
The air is filled with tension and anxiety. Explosive controversies are now flaring up over a host of issues, from zero-tolerance policing to public expenditure cuts.
Now, the historian Dr David Starkey has sparked a conflagration of his own.
During a debate about the disturbances on BBC2's Newsnight, Dr Starkey argued that one of the central problems was the influence of a 'violent, destructive and nihilistic' black culture that had corrupted too many of Britain's youngsters.
Warming to his theme, he said: 'A substantial section of the chavs have become black. The whites have become black. Black and white, boy and girl, operate in this language together . . . which is wholly false, which is a Jamaican patois that's been intruded in England, and this is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country.'
He then further stoked the flames by adding that Enoch Powell was right in warning, more than 40 years ago, that immigration would ultimately cause conflict across our cities.
Dr Starkey's outburst not only outraged his fellow panellists in the BBC studio, but also many commentators who watched the show, even though over the weekend he insisted that he 'was not talking about skin colour but gang culture'.
Piers Morgan called him a 'racist idiot' and pronounced Starkey's television career to be over. Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, accused him of 'nasty ignorance'.
As a black academic and head of an organisation that encourages young blacks to apply for university, I might be thought of as an obvious candidate to join this swelling chorus of disapproval.
And I cannot dispute the fact that David Starkey is guilty of blundering, both through his unfortunate choice of expression and through the falsity of some of his opinions.
It is absurd, for instance, to claim that last week's carnage proved that Powell was right.

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[NowLearnAboutIslam]

There are gangs of feral blacks stabbing, shooting and slaughtering people in the streets (thankfully it's mostly eachother) and there are gangs of Muslim pedophiles drugging and raping children all over the country.

Enoch - you tried mate, you tried. You must be spinning in your grave right now.

[andrewcarter91]

that guy is so right, he's just saying it exactly how it is...she just doesn't want to admit it.

[sevvendee7]

Dreda Say Mitchell should be renamed Dreda Say Nothing. I have seen her in an interview before and knew she would get steam-rollered by Starkey. Owen Jones? Great book but I am disappointed. Sometimes, more is required than simply putting forward a good argument. Sometimes a robust performance is needed. Starkey's argument is has destroyed his credibility, in my eyes but I was in stitches when he read out that text message.

[Ndugu82]

4:27 "Look, black culture in this country has had a huge contribution: our music....." end of example lol! Pitty he couldn't think of anything else!

And why are we still teaching Shakespeare in schools when we could be teaching kids literary devices from rap? Fucking hell

[blackmore4]

The & woman and the boy probably mean well but they sound like automatons reading a multi-cultural manifesto. How do you argue against the fact that 3/4s of the prison population & 80% of gun crime is committed by people with a skin colour that makes up only 5% of the UK population? Starkey may be curmudgeonly but he's no racist. With their misguided sensitivities, these so-called liberal defenders of separatist 'culture' are further sabotaging the WHOLE British population.

[widerling]

To even begin to question his statement is like questioning his sexuality. Both approach is utterly pointless. Period!

[Spoonpoodle]

It's an interesting way of announcing his retirement.

[LTBL88]

@WineBeerLover what have you contributed to the culture? written any books?

[MrFakunda]

@zaia3957 umm duh?? why would u equate 'black culture' with gangsta rap? r u fucking retarded?

[MrFakunda]

dont blame the rioters..god forbid