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													<title><![CDATA[PostDesk / Why David Starkey is a racist &#8211; an analysis]]></title>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Sep 1:13:48 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[keithlawrence]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Firstly, I am a Jamaican. Secondly, I am also black. Thirdly, never before have I heard such bigoted comments from someone who is described as educated. Is this the kind of academic Britain produces? It&#8217;s no wonder Britain is the pathetic state it is. Does Mr. Starkey and all those whites who have agreed with [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Aug 17:46:41 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[sohail]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Chris is bang on the money here! Let&#8217;s get this right. talking crassly, insensitively and ignorantly about admittedly delicate matters of race does not (and should not) automatically make you a racist. Let&#8217;s have a grown up debate about this beyond pious lectures. And while you&#8217;re at it, read my post at:http://postdesk.com/blog/david-starkey-racist-or-just-plain-stupid]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Aug 11:06:29 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[bobcrew]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Read David Starkey He Black at crewbob.blogspot.com]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Aug 20:38:17 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[anonamerican]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[There are several questions I&#8217;d like to ask David Starkey. 1. How he explains the behaviour of white people in Britain before &#8220;black culture&#8221; (his words, not mine) arrived here. Think of the people in Catherine Cookson novels &#8212; this is not unlike some of the things my white neighbour experienced living in a back [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 10:21:21 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[andy]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Whilst he appears ignorant at face value-blaming &#8220;black culture&#8221; which is stupid (and equating violence and a lack of education with skin colour)-what he obviously is getting at is gang culture and all the other panelists and many who are posting here know it. The racist part is ignorantly labelling it. The others are worse [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 8:35:22 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[lacquercartier]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[David starkey didn&#8217;t do any rioting, so find proper reasons. And quit the personal attacks &#8211; they make you look simple.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 7:48:25 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[chris]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[I agree that Starkey got it wrong. However I grow tired of the predictable response of the liberal left to brand any who depart from the party line as &#8220;racist&#8221;. It has become the modern equivalent of branding someone a &#8220;witch&#8221;. The Left should stop treating their own views as self evidently correct and all [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 2:19:58 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Paul, I agree with you about education but one can&#8217;t say Starkey isn&#8217;t educated. Maybe it&#8217;s lack of applicable education that is the problem? Anonymous English Teacher, I did indeed seek out the youtube clip where &#8216;eight police officiers savagely beat a 16 year old girl with batons&#8217; (allegedly). It doesn&#8217;t exactly reinforce your argument. [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 0:29:31 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[kam]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[David Starkey is most definitely *not* a racist. What we should be addressing is the nation of lilly livered liberals who can not take a dose of truth. These people can not distinguish between statement of fact or opinion and racism. It seems that nowadays, all you need to mention is the word black and [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Aug 0:10:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[lao]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Dave Starkey is clearly a racist trying to justify his racism with turns of words and his academic pedigree. Mark, why can&#8217;t one say that &#8220;the Blacks are becoming White&#8221;? Is such hooliganism behaviour that we observed throughout England somehow particular to Blacks or &#8220;Black Culture&#8221;? Isn&#8217;t there a &#8220;particular form&#8221; or &#8220;particular type&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Aug 22:39:52 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[ken]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[To the author of this article: David Starkey was NOT asked &#8220;what caused the riots?&#8221;, and he did not attempt to answer that question! He was asked &#8220;Do you think this has been a profound cultural shift?&#8221;. LISTEN TO THE FUCKING QUESTION! He says that the underclass youth of the UK (which is composed of [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Aug 13:35:47 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[To the (far too) many defenders of Starkey out there, if you fail to see the inherent bigotry in his words and attitudes, I really think that you need to examine your own personal politics, rather than just try to legitimise them. Like those who try to understand why so many behaved in the way [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Aug 12:58:04 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[angelique]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[David Starkey is most certainly a racist using the fact he&#8217;s a historian as a facade.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Aug 12:49:16 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[johntatlock]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Off topic, this, but Anonymous English Teacher above has appalling grammar. No wonder the young people are confused.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Aug 21:07:02 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[annahedge]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hi. Thank you all for taking the time to comment. Every comment has given me reason to think&#8230; Mark: The part you&#8217;re missing out of your definition of &#8216;racism&#8217; is the belief that the inherent biological/cultural difference posited, make one race superior to another. In associating &#8216;black culture&#8217; with criminality and violence, and appropriating David [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Aug 20:57:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[jonathan]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Annonymous English teacher writes &#8220;In essence, Starkey is referencing the modern riots to the 1980′s and getting his references muddled; unsurprising, but hardly shocking. However, when he states “whites have become black”, he’s actually correct:&#8221; Actually he is wrong. 1. It is extremely arrogant and foolish for an old white person to assume he knows [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Aug 10:03:55 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[robin]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[I think the most important point here is that Starkey is not qualified to talk about teenagers living in deprived inner-city areas. I can&#8217;t imagine how Starkey could possibly know anything about youth culture, unless that youth is Edward VI. I saw a good post by one of the Guardian writers who grew up in [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Aug 3:49:05 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[anonymousenglishteacher]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Oh, and btw. Google &#8220;Flash Mob Rob&#8221;. It is a meme that has been used in America since April 2011, and is a deliberate attempt to raise hell. Want to know who created the American meme? Guess what &#8211; Government. Muppets.]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[avery]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t see how any of what you wrote proves that he is racist or that his views are judging anything besides culture, which is indeed associated with ethnicity.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 22:13:31 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[anonymousenglishteacher]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Some comments on this rather poor attempt at a hatchet job: 1) David Starkey was chosen for because he recently was part of a television project to teach inner city kids. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/mar/02/tv-review-jamies-dream-school . He garnered a lot of criticism for his behaviour there, however, this is one of the reasons he was chosen; he [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 21:33:31 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[jameskelly]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hell Yeah! David Starkey is racists using his cultural-elitism to cover his tracks.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 16:58:02 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[dominicnewbould]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[You are right to wonder why Starkey was invited to appear on BBC Newsnight and &#8211; I believe &#8211; right again that it was probably because his extreme views would kick up a debate. Sadly, all that happened was that Starkey was given air time to broadcast his racist blethering. The other participants in the [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 16:05:32 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[mark]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[David Starkey clearly isn&#8217;t a racist. Racism is the belief that inherent biological differences between races determine cultural and individual behaviour and achievement. In saying that David Lammy could only be identified as being black by sight, and that many white people have adopted a subculture that is traditionally black (but to which most black [...]]]></description>
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