David Starkey - I am not a fan...
Over the weekend David Starkey was quoted as saying that the riots were a part of 'black culture'. What on earth does that even mean? He claimed that white teenagers had adopted the black, Caribbean patois and as a result had effectively lessened their chances in life. He was also banging on about Enoch Powell being right when he originally said immigration would lead to 'rivers of blood'. I can't even begin to establish how much this angered me. I mean honestly. There were a mixture of factors that led to the rioting. It included; lack of trust in the police, poor education, poor parenting (in a minority of cases) and general opportunism! It certainly did not seem to me that it was a result of 'black culture'. In fact you cannot say that when almost all the people I have seen leaving court have been from white households and the ones who have spoken have not done so in that fake Caribbean way. There have been millionai...