Such is the quality of the balkanisation nostrum that it can, simultaneously, be a cornerstone of establishment thinking and also packaged up as new, different and ‘radical’. As evidence, please see the case of ‘Ms.Dynamite’, a 21 year-old British recording artist who has proclaimed that her future lies in the political realm:
“There is not anyone in the Cabinet who can relate to me or that I can relate to.”
Welcome to the club, Ms.Dynamite.
“The connotations that come with the word politics are basically middle-class, rich white men who don’t give a damn about what we think. That’s not me speaking as a black person but as a young person.”
It’s the Rocky Hip-Hop Picture Show. Ms.Dynamite is doing the ‘Time-Warp’ and we’re back in the 1960’s.
“I feel that Britain is still an extremely racist country.”
Sounds like she’s been tuning in to that middle-class, rich white man Jack Straw. That’s precisely what he’s been telling us for years.
“It’s important to learn about everybody’s history. I think the only way to overcome racism and discrimination is to learn where we’ve all come from.”
Ah yes, that must explain what the British National Party are trying to do.
Still, all things being equal I expect that Ms.Dynamite will embark upon a successful career in politics sooner or later. She will slide effortlessly into the NuLabour machine.
Is Britain really racist?
Britain is everythingist.
Step 1, find something you want to do but can’t for some reason (I myself would like a job as director of a huge multinational).
Step 2, find some quality about yourself that is different from the average (I myself am shorter than average).
Step 3, complain loudly to everyone that britain is (quality of difference)-ist (in my case, sizist).