LAST month, the BBC aired the documentary Backlash – The Murder of George Floyd. Its focus was on race relations in Britain.
Like practically every other programme on mainstream media, Backlash views race relations, both in the UK and America, through the prism of radical left identity politics; a view also shared by this enthusiastic reviewer in the Guardian.
Backlash‘s premise, like that of the rest of the left-leaning media and American justice system, is that George Floyd was murdered by a racist cop. The Fall of Minneapolis from Liz Collin of Alpha News provides a perspective that shows otherwise.
As Bernard Carpenter reported in these pages recently, there is not one shred of evidence to support the idea that Derek Chauvin was motivated by racial animus when he restrained Floyd. Not only did a black officer, J Alexander Kueng, take an active part in subduing the powerfully built 6ft 6in Floyd, but the method, the Maximal Restraint Technique used by 5ft 9in Chauvin, was one used by police throughout the United States which had been taught to every officer of the Minneapolis Police Department. As Carpenter points out ‘the deck was heavily stacked against Chauvin from the moment that footage of him kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds caught the attention of the world’.
No, the liberal left’s insistence that it was a racially motivated killing has never been proven. It would require supernatural mind-reading skills to do so. But none of this matters to a media and cultural establishment that views everything through the lens of neo-Marxist identity politics in which every ill that befalls black and brown people can be blamed on racially motivated whites.
George Floyd’s regrettable death in controversial circumstances was one incident, involving one black American man. Yet five years on it continues to dominate the media in the UK in a way that the murders of white British citizens and Europeans by people of other ethnicities don’t and never have.
While George Floyd is a household name in Britain, few would recognise the name of Jodi Miller, who was brutally murdered by a Sudanese migrant in Leeds in 2019.
Another name not etched into public consciousness is that of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, stabbed to death near a taxpayer-funded asylum centre where she worked in 2024. There’s no extensive and ongoing media focus for her as the trial still awaits.
Where are the documentaries delving into how and why Britons and other Europeans are being murdered and attacked by imported males from countries that are vehemently hostile to western culture? Nowhere. Yet the cases are almost too numerous to mention. Tom Roberts‘s name has already been forgotten.
So has 70-year-old Terrence Carney’s, if anyone ever heard it. He was stabbed multiple times by 44-year-old Moroccan Ahmed Alid, an asylum seeker.
I’m not saying every non-European, non-western migrant is a threat, but we have to be able to talk honestly about those who are, despite Keir Starmer’s ruthless clampdown on free speech. Indeed I’m even concerned that just writing this piece could earn me a referral to the government’s counter-terror Prevent programme as it was disclosed last week that Prevent believe that (having or sharing) concerns about mass immigration constitutes a ‘terrorist ideology’.
It was harder for the liberal-left media and political establishment to ignore the 2021 murder of the Conservative MP Sir David Amess. But government remains adamant in its efforts to obscure, brush aside and memory-hole his brutal murder; the motivation and reasons for it, by the Islamist second-generation Somalian Ali Harbi Ali.
Sir David’s brave daughter Katie and his widow Lady Julia had their request for an inquiry into his murder rejected. For the very same reason that Jodi Miller, Rhiannon Skye Whyte, Tom Roberts, Terence Carney and many other ‘forgottens’ aren’t household names. ‘They’ – the establishment – don’t want a forensic analysis of any cases where it is clear (to anyone with a functioning brain) that murders are a direct consequence of their favoured immigration and asylum policies.
Feminists shamefully are also purposefully silent or openly hostile when non-left-wing women speak up to highlight official statistics showing non-European males to be significantly over-represented in sex offending cases right across Europe. Despite their mantra ‘believe all women’.
Which is another reason why no one who relies on the MSM has heard of the Women’s Safety Initiative, launched by a group of young women last April to highlight their direct experiences of mass immigration putting their safety at risk.
In the feminist left worldview, women’s safety doesn’t apply to those who want to highlight the specific problem of imported misogyny.
Foreign nationals are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens, according to the first analysis revealing the scale of crime by migrants. Albania leads a crime league table followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians, Moroccans and Somalians.
Any state that is more concerned about policing its citizens’ expressions of anger or dissenting views on mass immigration in the aftermath of migrant-related violence or terrorism than it is in securing its borders (to keep such threats out) is one that risks the alienation of its citizens. (Sky News recently revealed over 400 former ISIS fighters are roaming free having returned to the UK from the Middle East, to add to the list of over 40,000 potential jihadists the intelligence agencies warned us about after the Manchester Arena bombing.)
As history has repeatedly shown us, it is a calamitous path to go down. Both legal and illegal immigration bring to our shores a certain number of violent criminals, putting women and girls at particular risk, along with Islamists dedicated to the eradication of British culture and the imposition of Islamist supremacist ideology.
Noticing this now makes ‘you’ the extremist. If there was an award for political gaslighting the Prevent programme would be a definite contender.
