Thomas Sowell has for years sought to think about disparity in America as being cultural rather than racial. The fact is that his well researched and articulately expressed data strongly support his thesis, but prominent and well informed people choose to ignore him and instead focus on race, which gives them prominence and sells their product.

This is an incredible piece of writing that has helped me articulate the discomfort I felt when the protests rampaged last year. Context is key; Britain is socially divided by class not race and that didn’t seem to come up in those protests.

Good article, but the author is too uncritical in accepting the “revealed” narrative about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin. The truth is much more complicated and ambiguous, as is usually the case with media/ political moral panics.

The inappropriate effects of importing a foreign narrative into the UK are worsened when the narrative is itself faulty.

A brilliant article.
Thomas Sowell in 2012 said ” if racism is not dead in the US then its on life support” yet in the U.S and in other western democracies, the pious, virtue signalling left, on the back of Floyds death, have managed to orchestrate and manufacture a warped perception of reality. The likes of BLM and Antifa, have pushed and promoted a dreadfully divisive, politically woke caricature of fairness, called ‘identity politics’ which is vicious, rascist to the core and a really good way to shatter communites and society that up until this point, were doing better than they have ever done before. The thing that drove the movements were the new financially commisioned “Race and Diversity’ Tsars that smelt huge financial gain and in the process, were able to meddle and sow the damage that we currently see.

And millions of donated dollars appear to have ended up enriching the BLM organisers.

The article doesn’t really seem to say anything about why “British black lives” don’t matter other than to say that the BLM movement is predicated on American experiences and cultural sensibilities, which is something akin to saying “Is the Pope catholic ?” The headline might have been more usefully employed if it had actually talked about why black lives don’t seem to matter to black people, not only in the UK, but indeed anywhere. Sure, the truth might be more complex than a ‘simple’ headline might encapsulate but that doesn’t mean it needs to be avoided altogether, after all this (Unheard) is ‘supposed’ to be a place where we might hear things that are often avoided or left unsaid elsewhere.

Great. Thank you for writing this article.

People often overlook the fact that there are significantly more poor, uneducated, underserved white people than there are black people in the U.S. Many times more.
They just tend not to be a homogeneous group.

It is also refreshing to see the recent surge in the number of blacks who have begun to employ critical thinking skills and are finally beginning to see that those who have been telling them for decades that they care are really the true enemy.

Malcolm X knew this, of course, but it is rarely acknowledged. Liberal whites are hell bent in trying to keep blacks where they belong. (In their opinion) Blacks are now flying past the BS of equality and have their sites on the levers of power. And why not? But I’m sure they will be the first group in the history of the planet to make a hard stop once true “equality” has finally been reached. Just like in SA.

Is there a fear of an underclass increasing in size even further if abortion ends up being curtailed in America? Is not an underclass the result of a society where broken families are rife? How many talented black musicians were never in fact born these last few decades? Yet many talented black musicians of yesteryear had been born into dire circumstances. But way back then, they, as elderly as they are now, may have had the comforts of family. Was the extended fight for justice, the cries of victimhood and who was to blame, two summers ago, a way to make up for the helplessness, the fecklessness of sections of society? A way to excuse that degradation? To pull the wool over one’s own eyes? A way to stave off one’s capacity to feel guilt oneself?

So few understand not only the historical slave trade but that the practice continues today, making it difficult to have a cogent discussion with race opportunists. It feels like a Great Shakedown – of time, attention, & money.

In America, one of the strangest and nonsensical racial categories is “Asian”, as if the world’s largest continent did not contain Europe, and the Uyghurs, the Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Pakistanis were all one monolithic “race”.