Quote: Badge @ August 12 2011, 10:56 PM BSTHe started backtracking a bit, but didn't really have a defence against the implication that David Lammy sounds white so he is a better person.
I didn't take it that he meant that at all, though. He was being barracked by the other two who wanted to score anti racist brownie points and was cut short. What he meant was that it was a bogus language they had created, and some white people want to use it to be seen as cool or whatever.
He recited the text of the obviously well born white girl as an example. Lammy was used as the reverse example. The point Starkey was making, and I feel, a good one, was that this 'black culture' and particularly its language is a made up thing, it's not natural. If some black people from a black area, for example, Lammy, can very successfully avoid using it then so can others. He's basically worried that this artificial culture has been created and it is bringing a lot of white converts in, and it is a bad influence with its focus on gangs, guns and drugs.