i saw real racism in the fifties and sixties. it was mostly gone by the eighties in a large sense not to include the occasional individuals. sain't obama brought it back and now we have to play with it again only it ain't the same version from sixty years ago;
ARC speech transcript below:
Hi everyone. Well, I am Britain’s strictest headmistress, so I need us sitting up straight and all eyes on me.
A few weeks ago, we all saw the same footage: a young man called Henry Novak, barely out of childhood, handcuffed on the ground, begging the police for help. And what followed was the confusion of our commentators as they struggled to explain how our young police officers, sworn to protect the public, could behave in such a way. No one seemed to have a convincing answer. But when you spend a lifetime in schools, it’s pretty clear what’s going on.
Those young police officers are not a special case. They’re collateral damage. And the pattern runs far further afield than policing.
Last September, Charlie Kirk was shot, and within hours, young people were celebrating all over the internet, despite the fact that his two little children would have to grow up without their father. Many of us looked on in disbelief. What has happened to the moral core of our young people?
Something has changed profoundly in how our young people see the world. Those police officers were not evil. They were not incompetent. They were terrified, terrified of being seen as racist. Charlie Kirk held views young people find objectionable, and so his death was cause for celebration.
Henry Novak’s attacker was a brown man, so the police’s deepest instinct to protect the victim was overridden by their most powerful fear: being accused of racism...........more........
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