The words 'Enoch Powell was right' have ultimately immortalised him with prestigious status among the far right fascist groups as a spokesman whose qualifications are determined by his scholastic cv
On the neo-nazi on-line publication the Occidental Observer , Starkey graces the latest cover page. He stands arms folded looking boldly down at the camera in a smug power ranger pose like the kid who got the cream
His article is entitled 'David Starkey on Black Culture and Non-Racial English Nationalism'. Above that is the publication title and subtitle ' White identity, interests and culture'.
Its blueprint of Aaryan skinhead support and anti-semitism under a genteel title itself explains how Starkey went from a zero to a poster boy.
After 892 complaints to the culpable bbc who already parried the previous furore over their hosting of a bnp representative the ensuing national debate merged into wether Starky was a racist or society too pc
Starkey's moment began when he mentioned a girl stealing shoes during the UK riots , then he set the mark . I've just been reading Enoch Powell. His prophecy was 'ab-solutely right'
It doesn't take an intellect to predict the fallout of such a statement given the time and place. It was at worst, inflammatory for it would and has appealed to the most divisive of far right organisations. At best it would've served the implied purpose of being informative but for the all white rioting videos in Salford, the millionaire's daughter, ballerina, youtube rucksack mugger, Cheshire internet instigators, youtube boy who unseated the motorcyclist, 47 year old doughnut thief, youtube video called riot girls brag about violence and plenty more.
Having placed responsibility on the door of black gangsters, black culture and patois, exposing how miniscule his exposure to black people is or for that matter how much regard he has for fact , slander or anybody black, he then said that there was no inter-communal violence, which was surely the crux of Powell's hypocritical rant.
He and Starkey both customised an age old rant to suit the racial demographic that would help them to propel their careers: Uglier in Starkey's case as there are a multitude of nationalities in the UK today. By nature of extolling Powell Starkey created and consistantly re-confirmed a black vs white idea ; black being uncivil and white being respectable implied in his David Lammy rant. It was infantile to make the point of his accent. Do Alison Hammond, Ortis Deley, Trevor Nelson, to name a few contemporary celebs among thousands of articulate black english, sound white ? Or do they just sound as though they don't subscribe to a contemporary strand of youth culture or for that matter an Etonian drawl .
Odd that a man of Starkey's worldly experience seemed to produce such narrow minded ignorance and then to propagate such inflammatory mis-information
Obviously the limited slang he mistakingly calls Jamaican patois ( though it is a weak attempt to emulate), berates him. It berates me too but Starkey's obsession causes him to indulge in terms like bling culture which spilled out of his mouth like a festered haemorrhage forgetting that holistically the world and sundry quaintly borrow from the same commercial culture. Even BBC presenters 'big up' artists, using various finger signs and 'spudding' fists in all entertainment genres. Even prince William is known to have adopted the odd posture but no-one leaves that solely at the door of last year's BBC walkout, or for that matter the student or poll tax riots with their American upward incantations and cringeworthy, 'I was jus like, oh...my god'
Its a tried and tested formula to blame the dominant youth music culture for a predominantly youthful disturbance. It happened with rock and roll, mods, rockers, punks, skinheads and hippies
But in Starkey's vitriol sunk to shameless depths and the old ' blame the blacks' becomes seasonal like a faithful pup giving pundits like Nick Ferrari parasitical reign to stoke the embers of classic anti-black nationalism with slithering guilty pleasure . His show (Lbc 26/08/11) was themed 'you can't criticise blacks nowadays because of the pc brigade'. Unpromptetd, he indulged himself in re-affirmations of Starkey's inaccurate babble, and made headstrong focus on black culture influences and even pointlessly revived the buried 'use of the 'n' word' debate.It was his party and he encouraged anyone who agreed. And like a customised parrot he repeated, time and again 'Starkey was absolutely right'
It wouldn't do the impetus of the mob to mention that Starkey has literally made a career out of this headline grabbing method. Of the queen he said
'I think she's got elements a bit like Goebbels in her attitude to culture : 'every time I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver.' I think the queen reaches for her mask. He later expressed support for the monarchy
In 2009 the Scottish government minister for culture and external affairs, called on him to apologise for comments made on a tv programme, when he declared Scotland, Ireland and Wales "feeble little countries".. Cowardly, he later said It was a joke!
Starkey referred to the teaching of Henry VIII as a "feminised history", he said: "so many of the writers who write about this are women and so much of their audience is a female audience. This prompted historian Lucy Worsley to label his comments as misogynous.
He publicly criticised his academic mentor, but when the mentor struck back. Starkey said: "I regret that the thing happened at all."[
He explained in 2007 that his personality has "a tendency towards showmanship... towards self-indulgence and explosion and repartee and occasional silliness and going over the top." The Daily Mail gave him the sobriquet of "the rudest man in Britain", although Starkey claims that his character was part of a "convenient image" calling himself "Dr Rude",
There's nothing wrong with anxiety over youth culture but the corporate media influence behind its styling and promotion is paramount and not beyond the intellect of these men.
But there's a saying ''if you want to test a man's character, give him power.'
Maybe the beeb should know better than to ask a 60 plus year old Tory boy in an ivory tower to elucidate the primal passions of generations of people whose life spheres are alien to his,
But then maybe they knew exactly what they were doing
'We thought because we had power we had wisdom' Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935.
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