Based on over 30 years of research into what it means to be black in Britain I came to agree with other

As an historian, it is interesting that Starkey does not proffer any insight into the historical background from which race, and therefore the social constructions of black and white cultures, springs. Not just black but also white cultures are legacies of slavery and colonisation still working today to keep psychological slavery in place. 

Black and white cultures, as children of the British Empire, have evolved to the point they now exist as powerful social forces working themselves out consciously and unconsciously in our everyday lives with black culture playing a powerfully important role in world politics. Lock as many of those identified as non-white into a foreclosed black culture/identity and you have a permanent highly victimisable underclass either trapped in an oppositional relationship with whites or else clamouring to be like whites. 

In addition, black culture, being an oppositional culture, is attractive to the young of whatever ethnicity/social group. It is a largely youth culture that captures the imagination of the disenfranchised, marginalised, oppressed and excluded. It is a culture within which members of other groups ‘holiday’ based on need and opportunity. 

But what is the real difference between blacks and whites at the end of the day? Education and culture as transmitted generationally. The fact that in the 21^st century, blacks (i.e. descendants of enslaved Africans) still depend on whites for this generational transmission process provides some insight into how effectively this racial infrastructure kept in place to protect the legacies of the empire continues to operate. 

Those ‘whites’ who, according to David Starkey, have become blacks have done so because they too have been the recipients of poor quality questionable education and socialisation processes – to date a permanent feature of black life in the western world (this is not including the fact that ‘blacks’ were not allowed access to education during slavery). 

With ‘whites’ now falling into the cultural pit specifically created and dynamically maintained to contain ‘blacks’ perhaps Britain will finally move towards developing an educational system that effectively meets both the needs of its own children (whites) as well as those it enslaved (blacks)!  

Even more importantly, perhaps those of us recreated ‘black’ will finally wake up to realise we are far more than our skin-colour and that the human birth-right, taken away with slavery, is the right of self-determination and, therefore, responsibility for our own lives.