David Starkey's ethnic year zero | Dreda Say Mitchell | Comment is free | The Guardian

Follow @ballistic70 David Starkey's ethnic year zero | Dreda Say Mitchell | Comment is free | The Guardian
Lesson for Starkey: Never try to intellectualize an issue that is so emotionally charged. As a white man( who has benefited from the privileges that this society affords people of his ilk) he will never understand the black struggle, let alone black culture. If you don't know me, don't judge me. This is not making excuses for the significant number of melanin-blessed people who continue to negatively portray the Race  with their bad behaviour. To those people, I say: you embarrass me, you embarrass yourself

'...Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation. Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, until their basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race, until that day, the dream of lasting peace world citizenship and the rule of International morality will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained...'
Speech from H. Selassie Jah Rastafari 1969. As a Historian-I hope Starkey remembers this speech :)