9 years since David Starkey said on Newsnight

"What has happened is that a substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black ... The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion" https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/102134817587597312

David Starkey's comment that you would think David Lammy was white, listening to the radio, is maybe less well-remembered from that same Newsnight discussion

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/13/david-starkey-claims-whites-black

All I have learnt from this episode is that Darren Grimes (who was obviously very young in 2011 during the Starkey "whites have become black" interview) doesn't seem to have much ability at all to recognise overt racism.

This example of Darren Grimes being oblivious to the content of his interview with David Starkey seems to me in the type of category of Mr Corbyn not being able to spot a mural dripping in anti-semitism.

This may reveal who puts hyper-partisanship > consistency & who doesn't

Maybe the response of @NimkoAli could be a useful one for Mr Grimes and others on the democratic right to reflect on with regard to noticing the content of the Starkey interview https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1278643939663392769

No idea how this online channel works.

But it is an intriguing question as to *how many* other people just didn't notice that what @darrengrimes_ called his "bloody fantastic" interview included Prof Starkey saying "there wouldn't be so many damn blacks" ?

I got to debate history with Starkey once - in the National Potrait Gallery for PD James guest edition of Today in 2010

Found it a tricky discussion: he didn't listen to or engage with anything I said - so he could argue against a Hyper-PC caricature

http://www.nextleft.org/2010/01/england-whose-england.html