How to be superficially black

A Labour MP of Asian ancestry has opined that the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is ‘superficially black’. As a consequence she has been suspended from the party and has been denounced on all sides as a ‘racist’. She has since issued a ‘sincere and heartfelt’ apology for her ‘ill judged’ comments. Although she appears to share the left’s stereotypical notion about how all ‘people of colour’ should speak and behave, and the views they should hold, she has nevertheless hit upon a truth which few people appear willing to acknowledge.

The aspect which prompted the MP to speak out, and which has attracted much opprobrium, is ‘if you hear him on the radio you wouldn’t know he is black’. However, it has to be admitted that this observation is entirely correct. Kwarteng does speak with an educated English accent, which moreover is invariably grammatically correct. Although he was born in London, his parents are immigrants from Ghana, his mother becoming a barrister and his father an economist. Kwasi Kwarteng has had an illustrious academic career, gaining a scholarship to Eton, achieving a first in classics and history at Cambridge, and a PhD in economic history, also from Cambridge University. He is living proof that disproves the widely held belief that black Africans are ‘genetically’ mentally inferior to whites, a discredited trope which this blog has never advanced.

What singles out Kwarteng from other black politicians such as Diane Abbott and David Lammy, is that he does not play the race card. He does not have a chip on his shoulder about white society and ‘privilege’, nor does he claim that British society is ‘institutionally racist’, or bang on about the supposed evils of empire and colonialism. In other words, he has integrated into British society and has not sought any special privileges or favours for either himself or his race, or claimed membership of the black ‘community’.

He has worked hard and become very successful and is thus a perfect role model for all black people in Britain. If his example was followed by other members of his race there would be no black underclass, trapped in their ghettoes of fatherless families, hooked on petty criminality, casual violence, drug dealing and degenerate culture which alas are seen by many as the hallmark of the black ‘community’ in Britain and other western countries today. They might instead try and emulate Kwasi Kwarteng, and so raise themselves from their degrading lifestyle and aim to become ‘superficially black’, thereby reaping all the benefits of achievement and integration it would bring.