Sometimes the BBC really suck balls. Did you see this?
Of course you’ve seen it. Four million people have watched that clip of Fiona Armstrong patronizing Darcus Howe, the one-time British Black Panther. As this footage emerged, the internet immediately took exception to Armstrong’s bitchy interview with the man she likes to call “Marcus Dowe.” Maybe that’s because Armstrong’s condescension in some way mirrored the snobbery in British culture which many believed to be a cause of riots rooted in class difference. Or maybe it was because, for over 35 years, Darcus Howe has tirelessly documented and protested social injustice within the UK’s Afro-Caribbean community, while Armstrong is a bibble who presents things called Fiona on Fishing. Last week, I went down to Croydon to meet the self-proclaimed “Old West Indian Negro” to find out what he thought about the riots and what it was like to be propelled back into the public sphere....[continued]
SEE
New Cross Fire @ Wikipedia
