Darcus Howe dead

[Nearly Sane]

Didn't agree with everything he said but he said it well and was thought provoking


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39473698

[floo]

It worries me that racism appears to becoming much more in evidence again in the last few years.

[Harrowby Hall]

Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.

[Rhiannon]

Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.

More worryingly, I've noticed a tendency for some to jump on the bandwagon - people that might not have been overtly racist before. Xenophobia is hip.

I don't think it is just the EU referendum that is to blame. Anti Islam and anti refugee rhetoric has fuelled it too.

[floo]

Is it the "last few years", Floo, or is it since the EU membership referendum? The result of the referendum - to me - appears to have given some people excessive licence to express rather narrow nationalistic opinions and behaviour.

The referendum certainly hasn't helped. Also the rise of the nasty party UKIP has encouraged those with racist tendencies to voice them in a way that they might not have done before.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Didn't agree with everything he said but he said it well and was thought provoking


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39473698

Agreed. Darcus rather than Louis Farrakhan.

[Robbie]

I met Darcus Howe when I was very young, late 1970s, & knew a lot about him. I admired him with some reservations.
He hasn't been a well man for a long time so am glad he is no longer suffering. He will be remembered, on the whole, verywell in my opinion.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

FWIW I think that Darcus would appreciate the following analogy.

You throws some stones to the left, you throws some stones to the right.

What matters is the right ones mean more than the left.