The Cobbler's Children Poorly Shod

"Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don't operate off of what the right thinks about me."

"I've created the infrastructure and the support, and the necessary bones and foundation, so that I can leave."

"It feels like the time is right." 

"I think both of them [two new interim senior executives to help steer it in the immediate future: Monifa Bandele, a longtime BLM organizer and founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in New York City, and Makani Themba, an early backer of the BLM movement and chief strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies in Jackson, Mississippi] come with not only a wealth of movement experience, but also a wealth of executive experience."

"I think I will probably be less visible, because I won't be at the helm of one of the largest, most controversial organizations right now in the history of our movement."

"I'm aware that I'm a leader, and I don't shy away from that. But no movement is one leader."

Patrisse Cullors, co-founder, Black Lives Matter

In this Nov. 4, 2018, file photo, Patrisse Cullors poses for a photo on day three of Summit LA18 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

"[Prior to 2019, Patrisse Cullors had] received a total of $120,000 since the organization's inception in 2013, for duties such as serving as spokesperson and engaging in political education work."

"As a registered 501c3 non-profit organization, [the foundation] cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer." 

"Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false."

Black Lives Matter Foundation statement

 

"If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes."

"It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement."

"We need black firms and black accountants to go in there and find out where the money is going."

Hawk Newsome, Black Lives Matter organizer

USA Today network

An avowed Marxist and co-founder of the Black social-activist group Black Lives Matter is resigning from her position with the movement she was instrumental in bringing to life and worldwide attention. She has garnered praise from almost everyone associated with the movement, but also criticism from those within the movement, apart from accusations from what the woman herself, 37-year-old Patrisse Cullors, dismisses as right-wing White Supremacists. She has amassed a personal property portfolio worth millions and cast suspicion upon herself as a millionaire-Marxist.

This is a woman who was not born to wealth, but also a woman who saw opportunity when it presented itself. The opportunity to organize Black anger and resentment at a long history of discrimination and violence directed against Blacks, exploiting to great effect the killing by police in the United States of Blacks being arrested for infractions of the law. The long history of Black subjugation by white society as slave labour of an oppressed and enslaved people gave birth to a movement of angry victimhood demanding equality and respect and opportunity for advancement.

Black Lives Matter focused attention within the greater American community on the injustices of the past and the continued stripping of the dignity of human rights of the present-day Black population in America. Undeniable is the fact that Blacks represent a larger segment of the population involved in petty crimes, drawing the attention of law enforcement in a society mortified by its own ill-treatment of Blacks but within which resonance of virulent Black prejudice still festers. 

Black slavery took place when European countries colonized Black Africa. But Black slavery far predated those European colonizers who approached the slave trade as a commercial enterprise in competition with Arab slavers who had been in business far longer. And nor did Black slavery begin with Arab slavers; it was Black tribes themselves who warred against other tribes, taking their populations, men, women and children into institutional slavery. Slavery was universal in Africa; Blacks owning other Blacks.

This too is part of Black heritage, but one that is not audibly acknowledged, considered irrelevant to their current situation of living prejudice against blacks. It is a prejudice that will, in all likelihood, never completely dissipate, just as anti-Semitism rises and wanes interminably. As persecuted people, Jews have seen fit to defend and support Blacks in their traditional struggles to achieve equality. Blacks have not always reciprocated in kind; among their populations there are ample instances of Black antipathy to Jews. Human nature asserts itself in predictable ways.

Patrisse Cullors saw other opportunities in the movement she helped found, and as a leader gaining recognition in a context where the left, liberals, and the newly-recognized progressive 'woke' arose to defend and enshrine Black Lives Matter as a new campaign they could champion to demonstrate just how progressive they are, Ms. Cullors was recognized as a figure to contend with. She became an author of best sellers, and will author more of the same, and is now moving as a celebrity figure toward debuting a television series.

This is undoubtedly where her wealth stems from, not from siphoning off funding Black Lives Matter gathered during its public relations campaigns in support of their mission to change the world by confronting what they call White Imperialism, and uplifting Black lives and expectations toward a brighter future for the Black community. Which should, itself of its own volition begin to deal with the very real situation of Black crime; Black-on-Black violence, Black gangs, and Black criminality altogether. Intact families raising children, which BLM appears to be cavalier about, impart moral values and civilizational mores for the well-being of society.

The BLM Foundation collected $90 million in donations during its campaign for equality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer who just incidentally committed his violent 'arrest' of the Black man in the company of other Minneapolis police officers, several of whom were visible minorities themselves. In the United States, where Blacks thunder against a vibrant brand of discrimination against blacks, there are Black mayors of major cities, Black police chiefs of large metropolitan areas, Black state and federal legislators, Black justices, Black university teachers, Blacks in the arts and sciences competing equally with their white counterparts. This too is reality.

A third of the $90 million the BLM foundation raised in donations was spent for operating expenses, and they claim grants to black-led organizations and other charitable enterprises, amidst concerns over the disbursements and where they were going related to a lack of transparency. "I know some of [the families directly impacted by police brutality] are feeling exploited", stated Rev.T.Sheri Dickerson, representing the BLM10 national group of organizers publicly criticizing the foundation for its lack of funding transparency. There are large accountability gaps in Black Lives Matter.

Its frenetic calls to defund police at a time when they themselves lack fundamental answerability to those they claim to represent has a bad odour. Defunding police will do nothing to advance the measures that the black community needs to improve itself so that the police are not always on guard against black misdemeanors in lawful conduct. Who will protect blacks against other blacks, should police be withdrawn? Revenge does not answer to the need within their communities, but they seem unprepared to address their own issues, preferring instead to cast themselves interminably as victims of White Imperialism.

Black Lives Matter has become a global rallying cry   Getty Images

"A Black Lives Matter protest on May 30 in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles turned violent. A Los Angeles Times account and a local CBS TV affiliate report made no mention of Jewish targets, but there were reports that synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized."

"As we watched the fires and looting, what didn’t get covered were the anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents," Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Koretz said, according to the Jewish Journal, which reported that Congregation Beth El was vandalized with graffiti stating "free Palestine" and "f— Israel."

Politifact

 

 

Black Victimhood

"The likelihood of a Black person being shot by police in Toronto is just as high as for a Black person in the average city in the United States."                                 "The time for debate about whether systemic racism or anti-Black racism exists is over."                                                                                                                         "It is incumbent upon us all to re-envision the practices, the policies, the procedures, and importantly, the perceptions that shape policing in our city."            "The disproportionality, and the disparities in the commission report are more than just statistics. They are Black lives and Black Lives Matter."                                    Ena Chadha, interim chief commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission

"[Black people are more likely to be] arrested, charged, overcharged, struck, shot or killed by Toronto police."                                                                                "[Black people in Toronto are] disproportionately [arrested, charged and subjected to use of force by the city's police force]."                                                                 'A Disparate Impact' report

"This disparity cannot be explained away by racial differences in criminal history, civilian behaviour towards the police at the time of the incident, civilian weapons use, civilian mental illness, civilian intoxication, or local crime rates."                   Scot Wortley, criminology professor, University of Toronto

Black Lives Matter protests in Toronto. (Evan Tsuyoshi Mitsui/CBC)

"At the end of the day, when someone calls 911 they need to know that a police officer will show up at their door." "But is there an opportunity for other community agencies to do more? Absolutely."  "[Ontario has been] very active in doing things already [by increasing investment in community mental health and addiction resources, which account for 40 percent of calls to emergency services]."                                                                                   Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones

Critics of Toronto police call for reform in the way mental health calls are treated, that mental health professionals, not police should be responding to mental health calls, pointing to the death of a 29-year-old Black woman, Regis Korchinski-Paquet who fell from a balcony while police were present in her apartment, called there by a relative who had alerted police to something going awry, wanting her taken to a mental health facility. For their part, police felt they were responding to a possible assault call. 

It's worth noting that Toronto has a (newly retiring) Black police chief, appointed back in 2015. His deputy chief was also Black, and is now Ottawa's chief of police. Many police chiefs in the United States are also Black. Some of them are Black women. Yet police in both countries are charged with prejudicial racism, that they deliberately target Blacks for suspicion of crime commission. Police are a professional public safety group. They become very familiar in the commission of their duties at every level where crime most commonly emanates from.

They also develop a fine-tuned sense of the relationship between elements of any population with the culture of crime. With gangs, drug dealing, weapons possession, and all the public/social malfeasance that follows from those propensities. Blacks do indeed become targeted for questioning, stopping, suspicion of anti-social acts, from drug dealing and weapons smuggling to competitive challenges between gangs leading to shootings, wounding and death.

That being so, they become a 'targeted' community in the sense that police, the guardians of public safety and security, are attuned to what occurs in those communities, dealing with the outcomes as best they can. Yet, in 'progressive' social cultures they come under fire by complaints and accusations that they're too hard on the criminal element among Black populations, as though being Black requires them to have special consideration. Black police and their Black police chiefs seem somehow to believe otherwise.

They respect their own cultural community to the extent that they see no reason why those within the community cannot be expected to respect society and their place within it by adhering to the public weal, eschewing criminality and living normal lives rather than choosing to be thugs, drug dealers and gang members. But the Ontario Human Rights Commission is convinced that the problem lies not with the culture of the Black underclass community but with police in general, whose reaction is too harsh.

The report published by the Ontario Human Rights commission lingered on the fact that Black people representing 8.8 percent of the population of Toronto, manage to represent close to a third of all charges. Refusing to credit the fact that smoke both precedes and follows a fire, the OHRC prefers to blame police reaction rather than a dire need for the Black social underclass to reform itself. The OHRC's first interim report after its inquiry was launched in 2017 found between 2013 and 2017 it was 20 times likelier for a Black person to be shot and killed by police than a white person.

Whether the study undertook to assess and analyze the number of Blacks shot, wounded or killed by other Blacks is as yet unknown, but that this is a problem of immense proportions certainly is not. The enquiry also highlighted that officers sometimes lack a legal basis for stopping or detaining Black people, searching them without justification, making unnecessary arrests and laying unnecessary charges. In the opinion of the Human Rights Commission obviously, which knows nothing about finely honed police intuition and experience.

The protests sparked by the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May which led to protests and demonstrations by Black Lives Matter worldwide, that were often offensive and violent and ultimately led to the impression that among Blacks white lives don't matter, did nothing to achieve sympathy other than among 'woke' progressives whose 'guilt-by-whiteness-colonialism' sought to expunge itself through unquestioning support.

For The Greater Good

"Anger and frustration due to the University's refusal to remove the statue has been building in our community for some time."

"In June of this year, almost ten thousand people signed a petition by a Ryerson student calling for the statue to be taken down."

"These community members, Indigenous students, faculty, and staff must finally be heard."

Continuing Education Students at Ryerson (CESAR) petition

"For years, students, staff, and faculty of our university have been advocating for the removal of the statue of Egerton Ryerson, a key architect of the residential school system that caused the deaths and traumatization of generations of Indigenous people."

Corey Scott, executive director, CESAR

Students petition to remove Egerton Ryerson statue on campus (again) Campus News

"At the end of the day, I think it's because these are people who know they'll never do anything great enough to have a statue erected of themselves."

"And so they holler and whine and stomp about until statues of people they disagree with politically and who did great things and built this country and our institutions are erased from the face of our country."

"He is in large part responsible for the wonderful institution of public education that we enjoy today as Canadians. That's something worthy of honour and reverence."

Marshall Darbyshire, president, Ryerson Campus Conservatives

"Many children did not complete even primary school, as schools were not available everywhere, teacher training was spotty at best, and education was not valued by parents of children who were going to work the farm, become a tradesman, or were going to get married and look after the house."

"Ryerson introduced a common curriculum, common textbooks, teacher training, and ultimately required attendance, in order to create a literate population, which he believed necessary for the development of the colony, later the province."

Ron Stagg, history professor, Ryerson University

Egerton Ryerson was chief superintendent of education for Canada West, a man who instituted huge advances in the public system of education in the geographic area of a nascent Province of Ontario. In 1948, Ryerson Technical Institute, later to become Ryerson University in Toronto was named after Egerton Ryerson in recognition of his educational achievements, most particularly his establishing of the public education system in the province. A statue was erected of Egerton Ryerson to stand in proud recognition of his accomplishments.

Three members of Black Lives Matter protesters took it upon themselves to show their disdain for a man they deride as having been a racist, by vandalizing the statue, covering it in pink paint. Because Black Lives Matter has made such waves in the news, and society in general appears to be genuflecting to its  purported cause in support of Black equality, dignity and opportunity, there were presumably no charges laid and a metaphorical shrug ensued, leading to a second vandalization when green paint was splashed on the statue.

A general, universal sweep of historical figures reveal them to have been socially and politically representative of the tenor of their times. People of extraordinary foresight and public service were being scrutinized to discover whether any possible bigoted taint lurked in their personal backgrounds. And much was unearthed to detail issues of the time generally accepted in society as a given, when these individuals of social, political, historical standing supported the generally accepted attitudes then prevailing, and now condemned as unacceptable, abusive of human rights and equality.

Egerton Ryerson was a man of many parts, a Methodist minister, an author, an editor, and an education revolutionary of the 19th century. So it made good sense that a statue would be erected to his honour to commemorate his historical contributions to the province and its future that so greatly benefited from his presence, to stand before the university that bears his name. This was also a man who had involved himself as one of the architects of the now-disgraced residential school system.

This was a network of residential schools operated mostly by religious groups in collaboration with government agencies, where Indigenous children were involuntarily taken from their homes to live in residence where they were taught to be 'civilized', to become model citizens of the future. Where, instead of growing within the tribal structure and inherited culture of the reserve system they were meant to receive a well rounded education to prepare them for their futures.

In many instances, children were taken from dysfunctional families, while in many others children were scooped from their parental homes simply because they were identified as Aboriginal and needful of a white man's education; the 'white man's burden of obligation to those less fortunate'. They were taught discipline and how to care for themselves, along with the 'three Rs' of reading, w/riting and 'rithmatic. They were not permitted to speak their ancestral language. They were homesick.

But out of the experience of emotional deprivation in removal from the family hearth, they also received an education that would otherwise not have been theirs, and many among them were later grateful for the opportunity. They became the quiet, then the silent voices throughout the upheaval of vocal and very loud and florid accusations of white men depriving Indigenous children of their heritage -- and claims of mistreatment were rampant.

The vandalized statue of Egerton Ryerson. Ernest Doroszuk/Postmedia

Now that Black Lives Matter has arisen putting the spotlight on a social boil to be lanced only by the degrading of 'white' and the elevation of 'black', a social alliance between Black and Indigenous has resulted. And Egerton Ryerson has become one of the current-day victims, despised by his detractors as a racist bigot. When he was a man concerned that all children receive an education to prepare them for their future, among them Aboriginal children.

The petition that the group CESAR presented to the University calls on Ryerson president Mohamed Lachemi to end "the glorification and whitewashing of our colonial history", by ordering that the statue be removed from public view. An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were held to have attended residential schools across the country. Many claimed to have been the victims of physical, verbal and sexual abuse. Somewhat like the British aristocracy sending their offspring to 'public schools', live-in, costly private academies for a formal education which often included physical, verbal and sexual abuse.

Egerton Ryerson's ideas were influential in the establishment of the residential schools. And his ideas which were so valuable across the board in creating excellence in the school system of the fledgling province were valuable to the residential schools as well, ensuring a practical curriculum in a setting that provided for the health and nutritional needs of growing children. From a large constituency of tribal people who resented being patronized and the forced parting with their children.

In 2018, a plaque was attached to Egerton Ryerson's statue, in acknowledgement of his role in residential schools; an effort to bring perspective to his presence. That will not satisfy his impassioned detractors. "I believe it is an incredibly valuable attribute of any university that controversial subjects are discussed publicly, attitudes are challenged, and alternatives are suggested and considered -- sometimes this involves protests like the one we experienced this weekend", read a statement issued by university president Mohamed Lachemi.

Which sounds suspiciously like a preamble to a craven decision forced by the temper of the times.

Photo by Alan L Brown

Backlash, Mr. Prime Minister : With All Due Respects

"Mister Prime Minister and all members of Parliament who try to gain political points on the back of the RCMP members should show some discomfort and embarrassment. In fact, they should have requested for explanations, valid and dependable statistics before identifying our members as racist and by doing so, humiliating us by kneeling down as if demanding pardon for our renowned organization which has served our country with honour, integrity and devotion for the last 147 years."
"You, that we have protected since your infancy, would have to lead us to believe that you are more acquainted with the RCMP than your recent statement depicts, especially based on your personal experience on how many RCMP members that you have met are considered racist."
"Your manner to conclude that the RCMP is systematic racist is based on myth rather than true facts."
"Of course on some occasions members under pressure over-react. However these misdemeanors are never ordered, supported or tolerated by any level of management."
Gilles Favreau, retired deputy commissioner of operations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Protestors chant near the Parliament Building during a Black Lives Matter protest in Ottawa on Friday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

"I don't think defunding the RCMP does anybody any favours, because what you're saying is reducing police services."
"I think what should be done is identifying what areas people think are causing unhappiness along the lines of racism and let's see what could be done."
James Forrest, director of communications, RCMP Veterans' Association

"I am calling on each Canadian to remember the courage and dedication of our police officers."
"Not two months ago we were celebrating these first responders, who were coming to work to protect us, risking their own health and that of their families in order to do their duty."
"Are we so convinced the actions of a few, who have yet to be afforded the right of due process, colours or describes the whole profession?"
"The police in Canada are focused on the principle of community policing and risk their lives every day to protect people they don't even know. They deserve our gratitude and support, not because they are perfect, but because they are human."
B.C.Senator Bev Busson, RCMP commissioner

"His [Trudeau's] gesture was without substance and was merely symbolic."
"We have not seen the Trudeau government take any substantive actions to combat systemic racism."
Kike Roach, UNIFOR national chair in social justice and democracy, Ryerson University

Protesters gather at a rally in Vancouver's Jack Poole Plaza. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the crushing knee of a police officer companioned by three other police officers, one an African-American, another of Asian descent responding to a call from a nearby fast-food outlet about counterfeit money which led the police to try to arrest a very large and resistant black man -- George Floyd -- was captured in a short video that graphically depicted the agony suffered by the man as his neck was unrelentingly crushed and he asphyxiated while begging for surcease.

It was a vision of a human being physically and horribly tormented to death and the public reaction was swift and condemnatory, leading to loud public protests that grew in strength and number and began erupting around the globe, orchestrated by the Black rights group Black Lives Matter and co-opted by Antifa and finally by the Muslim Brotherhood, all delighted that law and order in America was being placed under the glare of a public spotlight relentlessly critical and damning.

And a movement was born -- to 'defund' the police. Crowds of protesters, mostly peaceful, but sometimes given to violence, began demanding that statuary honouring figures of the past all of whom had historical celebrity but were tainted by the tenor of the times in which they lived where discriminatory racist policies were institutionalized, be removed, destroyed, the memory of the past disowned. Demands that became virulently insistent, violent and international.

"Taking a knee", as a sign of respect for the Black Lives Matter campaign and a commitment to full equality for all with the exception of the majority identified as white colonialists, with their entitled sense of power and pride to be banished to the dungeon of disgrace and disentitlement became the new mantra of the self-assigned oppressed and disentitled. The reality of endemic violence within black communities, the enormous death toll of black-on-black violence through guns and gangs and drug trafficking ignored in the call to hold the white establishment accountable for the fraught lives of blacks.



Black Lives Matter, on a roll, extravagantly and bitterly blamed 'white privilege' and 'Jews and Zionists' for all their problems, not absent fathers and casual attitudes toward the laws of society meant to apply to all. These are all issues dear to the heart of Justin Trudeau who makes a great show of supporting all social justice events, and here was yet another dear to his heart. Like his assent that yes, as Black Lives Matter and their supporters claim, black and indigenous Canadians are treated unfairly, unduly represented in prisons in numbers far in excess of their population numbers.

And most critically, that police forces at all levels, but particularly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police units are rife with racist attitudes, an institutionalized racism for which he pledges a turnabout, yet another issue for which he apologizes to the Canadian public that sees itself victimized for no reason other than that it is not white, in an inherently multicultural society with fully one-third of its population born elsewhere representing people of ethnic, cultural and religious origins arriving in Canada to enjoy its freedoms and dedication to equality rights.

None of which stopped this Liberal prime minister from showing up at a Black Lives Matter event on Parliament Hill, handy for all such protests in lieu of Parliamentary sittings in the House of Commons, so he could visibly and empathetically rest on one knee to solemnly indicate his grave and sincere support for all that Black Lives Matter represents. An attitude and an incident seen as grossly unfair and distasteful by the federal police force that has protected Justin Trudeau all his life.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a knee during in a Black Lives Matter protest on Parliament Hill June 5, 2020 in Ottawa. This didn't sit well with the RCMP Veterans' Association.  Dave Chan / AFP via Getty Images

The Slavering PC Lynch Mob

David Starkey, author and historian

"Slavery was not genocide -- otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn Blacks in Africa or in Britain, would there? An awful lot of them survived."
"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name ... because we settled it nearly 200 years ago."
"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation."
"And do you know what -- we had Catholic emancipation at pretty much exactly the same time that we got rid of slavery in the 1830s. We don't go on about that because it's part of history, it's a question that's settled."
"And again there is no point in arguing against globalization or Western civilization - they are all products of it. We are all products of it."
"[The British Empire was] generally speaking, in most ways, actually fruitful."
Dr.David Starkey

Move on folks. The words of this intellectual and public figure -- no longer a celebrity in academic circles -- are a reflection of the truth, honestly spoken and honestly come by. Yet an expression of verity that breaks the eggshell of the shibboleth of recent adoption that the tragic suffering of Blacks throughout history is somehow unique to humankind, akin to a genocide, none of which is accurate, and which Dr. Starkey was quick to point out. Slavery has existed since time immemorial and slaves have not only been black, but white and any other colour of the spectrum of humanity.

There have indeed been periods in history when genocidal intent has been carried out in a mass slaughter of an ethnic-cultural-religious group with the intention of total annihilation in conformation with a racist ideology regarding them as vermin to be eradicated from the face of the Earth. During those years of institutionalized and carefully orchestrated violation of humanity, the targets were enslaved, tortured and methodically murdered. Six million in number, representing a significant mass proportion of their presence globally. That is genocide.

At a time in many Western civilizations when signs proliferated in the early- and mid-20th Centuries that "Jews, Blacks and Dogs" were not permitted entry, assaults on the dignity and humanity of people of such specific origins were widespread and supported both by the citizenry and the governments representing them. This kind of degradation of humanity was common and broadly accepted. To the present day, racist discrimination, oppression and deranged violence targets specific groups.

Black Lives Matter protesters in Hyde Park in June  Reuters

Dr. Starkey, for all his academic acclaim and reputation as a historian of the first order is also a plainspoken man; he does not cloak his utterances in the precious exclusionary language of academia; he speaks directly and plainly of what he knows, of historical precedents, giving his studied opinion based on reality, not the popularity of the most recent publicly-adopted issue designating it the flavour-of-the-moment, which crowds of people, eager to portray themselves as engaged progressives march sanctimoniously in favour of.

Rectifying the past to better reflect the outrage of the present over established customs and values long since abandoned in favour of more enlightened practises reflecting the public weal as humanity drew closer in the event of mass exoduses from countries where enslavement still persists, where violations of human rights are ongoing, where exploitation of human potential is rampant, where internecine and sectarian and tribal enmities cause explosions of violence and civil war. Refugees and emigrants stream into developed societies to add their dreams to national aspirations.

And living in those present-day situations, opportunistic groups still favour revolutionary hatreds and chaos over secure societal normalcy. Bringing hate groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter  together with the Muslim Brotherhood to espouse change in an imperfect society that has offered them freedom and the potential to succeed in normalizing their own lives, to prosper and to meld with a society meant to embrace equality of opportunity and the recognition of how much we have in common.

For speaking his mind based on fact, not the fiction of victimhood and blame, Dr.Starkey is no longer academically associated with Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Canterbury Christ Church University; no longer a visiting fellow at University of Buckingham, and Lancaster and Kent Universities have placed his honorary graduate status under review. His publisher cacnelled the release of Dr.Starkey's latest history books.

"He's been saying this stuff for years. It's only because of the work of #BlackLivesMatter that it's being taken more seriously Personally I believe he should lose his CBE (Commander of the British Empire) too", claimed an academic colleague, obviously in the progressive league, and without doubt green with jealousy and schadenfreude  of the now-destroyed popular reputation of Dr.Starkey in his so-recent heyday as an acclaimed debater, historian, author.

"It's just not acceptable what he said. With freedom of speech goes responsibility. It's not an absolute right, and you cannot thoughtlessly provoke and incite and inflame, particularly at such a sensitive time", commented Sir Anthony Seldon, Dr.Starkey's employer at the University of Buckingham. Unwittingly (perhaps as a reflection of his own witlessness) describing precisely what Black Lives Matter's campaign is promoting: incitement, inflaming attitudes, and indulging in violent chaos.

These academic institutions are quavering in fear lest they be labelled anti-Black racists.

"We cannot decolonize the curriculum, because you Black Lives Matter are wholly and entirely a product of white colonization."
"You are not culturally black Africans."
"You would die in seconds if you were dumped back in black Africa, you wouldn’t know how to cope."
"[The same white people who support the BLM movement were the people] who work themselves up into a lather about leaving the European Union."
"These are the people who tie themselves in knots despite the fact they have lots of money, live in big houses, drive big cars."
"They get wildly excited about extinction. It’s a form of upper class and middle class arrogant patronage."
Dr.David Starkey

David Starkey made the comments on YouTube channel Reasoned UK (Photo: Getty)