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I’m an American who grew up with an Anglophile mom, so I’ve always watched about equal amounts of British and American TV. I’m not sure what they mean by lead roles, but when I think of TV shows I’ve watched that feature black leads, Lenny Henry’s “Chef” is the first one to come to mind.

It seems to me American shows do often put black people in good roles in ensemble casts, but outside of “urban comedy” I can’t think of a show whose star is unquestionably a person of color. Maybe I’m not thinking hard enough (I tend to be colorblind), but everything I currently watch stars a white guy, and then the rest of the parts go to women and PoC.

It also seems to me there are fewer PoC in the British shows I watch than in the American. However, take a show like the new Robin Hood, which is about England in a time period when there would have been precious few PoC: one of the merries in this version is a “saracen” (arabic). They’ve worked in a couple of guest roles for PoC, one including a bi-racial kiss. So it seems to me that some British shows are making precisely the same efforts that American shows are making. It’s not enough yet, but it’s steps in the right direction.

Well dear, before you get all in a huff about that, why not read over some of your earlier posts, hmm? Here, I’ll jog your memory.

“What are you, some kind of retard?”
“Bigoted weirdo”
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
“Losers”

Well by golly gee! Given the wonderful tone with which you opened your arguments, isn’t the restraint of my institutionalization comment a wonder? I marvel at my own beneficence. I mean, I could have called you a “bigoted weirdo,” or “some kind of retard” or some of the other less kind things I’ve seen spewed across the blog.

Let’s make a deal, Captain, since you’re feeling like such a rational human being today (and since for whatever reason, ABW is away and hasn’t moderated you yet). You be a big person and apologize sincerely to ABW for all the degrading, insulting things you’ve said. I’ll apologize for my comment. We can start on a clean slate, with *polite* discussion that avoids personal attacks.

I don’t care about Britain’s history of class stratification; that’s irrelevant to the migrant experience, which is almost exclusively post 1950.

British slave trading before 1807, when it was abolished, is irrelevant to all current migrants to the UK and their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and so on for several further generations.

As for the quote being naive, the quote was made by Enoch Powell, MBE, who was made a professor of Greek at the University of Sydney at age 25, and was fluent in 12 languages. He was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the youngest Brigadier in the British Army at the end of WWII, and the only man to be promoted from the rank of private to the rank of Brigadier throughout the whole war. He was a British MP between 1950 and 1975, and an Ulster Unionist MP between 1974 and 1987.

So frankly, you can take your ill-informed accusations of naivety, and stick them.

This blog is not the equivalent of a chalkboard on the street, unless by that you mean a chalkboard owned by ABW and erased/modified whenever she feels it’s necessary.

My dear fellow, you seem convinced the whole place is an “echo chamber” and that this is the reason people wish to see you banned. That is not the case. People wish to see you banned because you are behaving like an ass. Spamming up multiple threads, insulting the site owner, and belittling the regulars is, just so you know, troll behavior. If you are genuinely interested in real discussion, grow up and act civilized.