Recently, Sir Lenworth George Henry stood on a podium at a luvvies media bash and berated the audience for the lack of ‘expression of his life as lived’, and I had to chuckle. Oh how I wish I saw the life I see, expressed in television productions and advertisement campaigns. If my eyes do not deceive me, it now appears that advertisers think that the majority of families in this country should be portrayed by a mixed race or BAME people, whereas I believe that approximately 85% of the population is white. To add to the joke at the 85% expense, it seems that fully half of the white people represented have red hair, again a massive over-representation that is effectively a caricature. There are other issues, very well that people self-identify as ‘black’ race for instance, a view I saw expressed with some venom by Sean Fletcher on GMB, yet who’s father was white, and so effectively airbrushing 50% of his genome from history. People who could have sometimes struggled to overcome pestilence, tyrants, wars, famine and diseases, to give him life. It would be more honest if the individuals who currently do express as ‘black’ and who are mixed-race, were to simply state ‘not-white’. Then they can wear their racism on their sleeve, and we all know where we stand. One day we need to talk about poor, working class white boys.
Recently, Sir Lenworth George Henry stood on a podium at a luvvies media bash and berated the audience for the lack of ‘expression of his life as lived’, and I had to chuckle.
Oh how I wish I saw the life I see, expressed in television productions and advertisement campaigns. If my eyes do not deceive me, it now appears that advertisers think that the majority of families in this country should be portrayed by a mixed race or BAME people, whereas I believe that approximately 85% of the population is white. To add to the joke at the 85% expense, it seems that fully half of the white people represented have red hair, again a massive over-representation that is effectively a caricature. There are other issues, very well that people self-identify as ‘black’ race for instance, a view I saw expressed with some venom by Sean Fletcher on GMB, yet who’s father was white, and so effectively airbrushing 50% of his genome from history. People who could have sometimes struggled to overcome pestilence, tyrants, wars, famine and diseases, to give him life.
It would be more honest if the individuals who currently do express as ‘black’ and who are mixed-race, were to simply state ‘not-white’. Then they can wear their racism on their sleeve, and we all know where we stand.
One day we need to talk about poor, working class white boys.