Saturday August 13, 2011
Starkey Staring Mad:
Historian Accused of 'Racism' Over Riot Remarks
Historian David Starkey has been accused of making remarks about the recent UK riots that are 'racist'.
Starkey described England as a 'foreign country' as a result of popular culture being influenced by Jamaican patois and American hip-hop.
From The Guardian:
The historian and broadcaster, whose historical documentaries on Channel 4 about the Tudors established him as a household name, went on to name-check Tottenham's Labour MP: "Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white."
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