Britain's Usual "Black Bastard(s)"

Today was one of those ugly racism days for Britain. Sky News showed CCTV footage of a white policeman punching a 20 year old Black woman, Tony Comer, five times in the face. This after the offending cop, and other cops, had subdued Ms. Comer.

A travesty of justice and racism you might say. And many in Britain agree. But then there are those who see nothing wrong with the actions of the cop. You know 'em well, the denialists.

An SMS to SKY News set the tone for this infamously white demographic: "I am so sick and tired of people who see race in everything. The cop was not racist. He was doing his job." And another: "She was a threat to the PC. It is normal to use this kind of force with dangerous criminals. Race was not even a factor ... how could it have been?"

For a delusory moment I thought damn, what is it about whiteness that is so universally pathological? I mean, you hear the same kind of denialism from whites in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa ... you know, the denialist derivatives of the lapsed empire.


Now you would think that the day was crappy enough for the lapsed empire. But you would be wrong because their shadow homeland security person, Patrick Mercer, went and 'royally' f**ked their day up even more.

Mercer, a former officer in the British Army, exposed the closely-held scam that Black people deviously use race and racism to hide that we are stupid, lazy, and over-sexed.

Mercer said he recognized the scam when he 'encountered "a lot" of "idle and useless" ethnic minority soldiers using race and racism to "cover" their inferiority. So, given his experiences in the Army and with the scam we runs, it should come as no surprise that Mercer finds it "usual" to refer to a Black soldier as a "black bastard".

Nothing racist here governor. "In fact" (Mercer's fact), being called a name in the Army is an 'equal-opportunity' thing ... and Blacks are hardly the most oppressed. "A chap with red hair, for example, would also get a hard time - a far harder time than a black man ... " according to Mercer.

Oh yes, I almost forgot that whites are always more oppressed than Black people anywhere (a kind of strange inverse superiority thing). This is a true-blue pillar of whiteness mythology. It would seem that in some countries, red head white people are helds as slaves, their property stolen, their rights brutally suspended, etc., all because they have red hair.

Black people who do not have red hair, cannot by definition and degree, suffer this most severe of oppressions. We really must get Bono to raise awareness about the plight of red haired white folks! It just ain't right that Africans get all his unwanted attention.

Of course, like every good non-racist white person, Mercer has apologized for his comments that were 'obviously' taken out of context, and outside of his white-world reality. He even quit his front bench position to show his bona-fides.

Actually he was pushed broer.

So there! That will teach him to f*ck with the feigned egalitiarian values of the lapsed empire!


Values so 'elegantly' documented in the "History of England" by one of their most celebrated minds, David Hume (1711-1776).

It was none other than this favourite Enlightenment son who said of Black people:

"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or in speculation. No ingenious manufacture among them, no arts, no sciences."

For more see: Eric Morton: "Race and Racism in the Works of David Hume" in the Journal on African Philosophy, 2002.

Shocked? Don't be. There is more. See colonialist Cecil John Rhodes for his "I prefer land to niggers" racism.


And, if you still can't sleep up there at night pick up a copy of this Agatha Christie classic to count "falling niggers". Though you may have to find it under its revised and wishful title: "And Then There Were None."


Nice little Island huh?