BlackMan Time

So the BBC gave the BNP a platform to perform? Why did they not invite a British black man on the panel? No disrespect to novelist Bonnie Greer but she’s American and although she’s black she cannot profess to have experienced Britain in the same way that most UK-born black people have. So why didn’t the BBC see it fit to redress this issue?

The programme, chaired by Sir David Dimbleby had the panellists Jack Straw, MP; Baroness Warsi, Conservative peer; Bonnie Greer, playwright and Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman.

Maybe it’s just me but I think a failure to even consider having a black male panellist is part of the overrall institutional racism that has befallen us over the years. The BBC by this omission is really saying they don’t feel there’s any black man in Britain capable of engaging an obnoxious racist fool like Griffin when the reality is quite different.

Even I would’ve been happy to appear. My focussed anger with the fact that I was opposed to him being given the opportunity in the first place, would’ve proven far more potent than Greer’s meandering, multi-syllable intellectual dead-ended responses, for instance.

In the end it was a freak show and the biggest freak had his day. Or is it just me, a black man freaking out…