Category: Racism

White privilege and the white convert

Sister Brooke has called for posts on the topic “White Privilege and the Ummah: what does it mean to you, them and us?” for a blog carnival. The subject of racial divisions within the...

Kids are kids

Editor-At-Large: Our bitching and bullying is a form of class warfare – Janet Street-Porter, Commentators – The Independent Yesterday, this article by Janet Street-Porter on the depressing saga of the boy who represented the...

The anti-Semitic holiday destination

New Statesman – You’re Jewish? You can’t be English I read this in this week’s New Statesman, by one Rhoda Koenig, a theatre critic on the Independent and Punch, who lives in London but...

The importance of sensitivity

This week, Carol Thatcher, a TV "personality", economist and daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, was dropped from a BBC TV show for calling a sportsman a golliwog. The remark was made...

Prince Harry and his little friend

On Sunday, the News of the World (also known as the News of the Screws, a tabloid “scandal sheet” owned by Rupert Murdoch known for printing kiss-and-tell stories) put on its front page a...

Casual racism at British Airways exposed

'A world of casual racism' exposed at BA – Home News, UK – The Independent This was the front-page feature in the Independent yesterday: a former senior pilot with British Airways revealed that casual...

Zimbabwe and racism

Yesterday I passed by the Zimbabwean embassy in the Strand, London, where there was a small group of protestors, black and white, who asked me to sign their petition, which I did. I struck...