In the old days you knew who the racists were. When I was growing up in the Northwest, I got called every name under the sun including, paki, nigger, wog, a black bastard, sambo, golliwog, grease ball and much more. It usually led to getting a beating by a group of white youths who liked to show their bravado in gangs, but spineless on their own of course!
That was the 60’s and 70’s. Things ‘improved’ a bit during the 80’s and 90’s and ended in February 1999 with the publication of the Macpherson report into institutionalised racism. That was 22 years ago!
This month Azeem Rafiq tore apart the very foundations of English Cricket when he alleged racist treatment masquerading as ‘banter’ The incompetent Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) thought they could get away if they ignored his allegations. When they finally took note, a damaging report was produced, and it was promptly hidden away. The matter came to a head when the Parliamentary DCMS Committee announced on 2nd November that it demanded the Chair of the YCCC to attend in person and answer questions. All hell broke loose and no longer were the top brass at YCCC in control of events. With all their power, they found that they could not silence the nation. Heads started to roll, and now Professor The Lord Patel of Bradford OBE has been appointed as their new Chair.
Debates have centred around ‘education’, ‘training’, ‘societal issues’ and many fake narratives to excuse away the elephant in the room. Do remember, for the past few decades we have been given the same excuses, people need more education, more training, more this, more that and more of the other.
The people indulging in racist ‘banter’ are not 50- or 60-year-olds who grew up in a different era. These modern-day racists grew up with the full weight of an educational system that has been flooded with woke anti-racism rhetoric. They have grown up in an era of social media and the Internet. And now we are to believe that these woke celeb sports superstars who act out their racism through ‘banter’, that it was just lack of education!
The England Captain Joe Root who was at YCCC for many years seem to suggest that he never came across any such practice! Indeed, he also eluded that it’s a societal issue. By saying so, it deflects attention away from the incompetence of cricketers to do the right thing.
I have stated before, ‘taking the knee’ does not mean you are not racist. All it means is that some have found ways to hide their racism. More education and diversity training are code words to hide racism. In effect, what they are saying is we will teach racists how to get away with it.
The tragedy of all of this is that some black players, and some players of colour are either just stupid and taken in by the white woke narrative, or they are enslaved within a racist system that silences them. They alone know which category they belong to, but suffice to say, in 2021 to be in any of those two is to be pathetic.
This is not about Azeem Rafiq. It is about the white woke narrative peddled and supported by some black people, and some people of colour that is designed to keep some enslaved. Our ancestors would hide their heads in shame to see that their bloodlines have become so contaminated. That the barbarism of slavery they had to endure is celebrated today by ‘taking the knee’.
The racist woke are thriving. They hide behind an equalities and diversity narrative, but they are far worse than the skin heads I had to face when I was growing up!
