The Black Racism of Lenny Henry

There is something redundant about inviting left wing personalities to guest produce the radio Four Today programme as it is clearly produced by such types the year round but anyway Lenny Henry went the whole hog and insisted that all the journalists on his watch today would be, as it is preciously put 'of colour'.

The programme was a predictable ghoulash of political correctness.But here is the thing.What the positive discrimination arguers like him fail to recognise is that hiring someone because of the colour of their skin is just as racist as Not hiring someone because of the colour of their skin.Such black racism is actually worse than the common garden racism because it is perpetrated by the victims of racism themselves - an almighty own goal of epic proportions.At a stroke the moral high ground is abandoned and the ugly face of racism and its roots in collectivism is exposed and one injustice is substituted for an another.

Martin Luther King's invocation to judge people not by the colour of their skin but the content of their character is forgotten and the ugly face of black racism is enthroned in its place.It is to be hoped that most people will reject the backward black quota ideas of Lenny Henry for the vile irrational immoral racist policies that they are.Shame on the BBC for sinking to new lows.