LIGHT ON Bliki
The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion.
Valkoisista on tullut mustia. Muotiin on tullut erityisen väkivaltainen, tuhoisa ja nihilistinen gangsterikulttuuri.
A fehérek feketékké váltak. Egy sajátos, erőszakos, romboló, nihilista, gengszter kultúra jött divatba.
I bianchi sono diventati neri. Una specie particolare di cultura gangster, violenta, distruttiva, nichilista è diventata di moda.
Beli so postali črni. Določena oblika nasilne, destruktivne, nihilistične gangsterske kulture, je postala modna.
Country
United Kingdom
Tag
Sentence
Target groups
- Foreigner/Migrants
- Minority groups
- Others
Description
Regarding the Riots in the UK in summer 2011 Professor David Starkey, a well-known British Historian and television personality, commented in a BBC primetime political debate that the riots started because: “The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion … And black and white, boy and girl, operate in this language together, this language which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that’s been intruded in England, and this is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country. It’s not skin colour, it’s cultural".
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Source
Mr. Starkeys comments made in the Newnight in August 2011 were further debated in the British media e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8700109/Historian-Starkey-in-racism-row-over-riot-comments.html
http://metro.co.uk/2011/08/14/david-starkeys-racist-remarks-spark-online-petition-for-public-apology-3077726/