David Starkey has caused outrage for claiming that slavery was not genocide ‘otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks’
‘Again, there’s no point in arguing against globalisation or western civilisation, they are all products of it, we are all products of it.’
‘And as for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago,’ he added. ‘We had catholic emancipation at pretty much exactly the same time that we got rid of slavery in the 1830s – we don’t go on about that.’When Mr Grimes questioned the historian on what he would say to anti-racism activists who ‘want to decolonise the curriculum’, Mr Starkey replied: ‘You cannot decolonise the curriculum because you, Black Lives Matter, are wholly and entirely a product of white colonisation.
‘It’s only because of the great African diaspora, the compulsory diaspora, because of slavery. What of course that brings you up to confronting is of course slavery was not the equivalent of the Holocaust.’Many twitter users called out Mr Starkey’s comments calling him ‘racist’
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