There Are No More Black Radicals
I've looked
About six weeks ago I wrote a newsletter called Cowards and Chameleons about the Professional Black Class. I stand by every word and will add there are no more Black radicals. If there are, they are working in the community, not at the Guardian.
The Guardian recently launched their black vertical, ‘The Long Wave’, a newsletter by Nesrine Malik and Jason Okundaye. Who will ‘deliver your weekly dose of Black life and culture from around the world’. I wish them both luck as individuals but posit that nothing that comes out of the Guardian or Observer is radical and if it is, they immediately cancel it out by platforming people such as Howard Jacobson.
The only reason in my mind that you would write for the Guardian or the Observer is that they don't have a paywall, so your work is likely to be read by more people than in the Times and the Telegraph.
More people, but not always the right people in my opinion. It's why I'm not ashamed to say I've written for the Telegraph twice and would never write for the Guardian again. The former’s readers need to be convinced, the latter's think they know it all. A crippling condition of liberalism.
Liberals in my mind are smart, because whether they are up in arms or silent it's all the same fake concern. They couldn't care less unless it affects themselves.
That's clear when you look at their ignorance, obfuscation and/or denial about the atrocities and war crimes in Gaza in the past 400 days, the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant yesterday. Yet they are incensed about the farmers’ protests.
In my view let the farmers do what they want and release the Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action prisoners. There's no equivalence in their actions and intentions, but there is hypocrisy in the result.
I've written before about why I vowed never to write for the Guardian again so I won't reiterate except for this quote:
We are not invisible, just purposefully not seen.
Whereas white people are always neutral. The men are authorities and the women are fragile. They couldn't possibly only write from a place of identity could they? Oh no siree. White grievance is just a by product of black and brown insolence.
I look forward to the day the Guardian will publish anything so scathing in their pages and will in the meantime keep avoiding their periodical we need more diversity in publishing, media, arts etc etc etc articles