The MOWO awards.

This month is black history month. All month long, the whole of october, dedicated to everything that happened in the past that is anything to do with black people.



Like that time when Carlos/Smith did black power salutes at the olympics. A pivotal moment in black history when some black men raised their hands in a fist shape.



Then Malcolm X happened.

Of course there would be uproar if ever there was a dedicated WHITE HISTORY MONTH, dedicated to all the things that white people have done, a chance for white people to be proud for once. White people are worthy of adolation after all, Galileo was white, Yuri Gagarin was white, John Lennon was white, Al Jolson was white, Michael Jackson was white. I could essentially list all the people of any consequence who were white. Florence nightingale was white, Thomas Edison was white, John F Kennedy was white, Chet Baker was white, Patrick Moore was, and still is white, there are lots of white people that deserve adolation. Bob Marleys dad was white, Bill Hicks was white, Elizabeth I was white, Elizabeth II was and still is white. I could go on. Bob Monkhouse was white George Best was white Callum Best was and still is white.



See? White!

They (I think that when people say, 'they' they mean, the Guardian...or the blacks) would no doubt kick up a right stink if there was a MOWO awards or a white history month.) There are of course no problems when people bring up Jewish history month, after all no one wants to come across as anti- semetic, and as well as that, what happened in the holocaust wasn't very nice. So Jewish people are alowed to explore their roots.



I similarly don't have a problem when the Irish want to explore their history with a wave of publicity because they are a chirpy bunch Irish history can always be celebrated with a hearty measure of Guinness while wearing a silly hat.



Yes, like that, to be sure.

Unfortunately, this is where it gets complicated and it becomes clear that you shouldn't really make the kind of assertions and inferances like the ones I made at the start of this blog. You see what I have done is tried to get the people with who think that there should be a MOWO awards down to about here before explaining why there doesn't need to be a MOWO awards, or a white history month.



Because pricks like him have enough ammunition already.

If we accept Irish identity and Jewish identity without question then why does the white middle class get so touchy about Black identity? Have we really had some strange colonial stereotype embeded so deep into our psyche that we are doomed to fear black people forever?

Have a think back to what you learned in your history class at school, 1066, the reformation of the church, the arse end of colonialism, the 1st World War, the rise of Hitler, possibly some Roman history if you went on to A-Level. Essentially, exclusively white history, the kind of history that David Starkey teaches you about on those stuffy and boring programmes about the tudors on Channel 4.



The same David Starkey who blamed black culture for the London riots earlier in the year.

So if someone who is of such a high profile can blame black culture for something like the degradation of society then surely black culture has the right to stand up for itself. Black history month celebrates not only black culture, but People like William Wilberforce, a white upper class MP from the 18th century who thought that slavery was wrong on principal, which paved the way not only for racial equality but workers rights and whilst back when I listed people of consequence who were white you probably recognised most of the names, maybe people like Ida B Wells-barnet, Al Sharpton, Paul Robeson, Lonnie G Johnson, Granville T woods and John Coltrane deserve to get a mention, what harm could it do?



Furthermore awards like the MOBO's do not exclude white artists, Jessie J, Jamiroquai, Amy Winehouse and the Neo Nazi band SKREWDRIVER have all won MOBO's apart from the Neo Nazi band SKREWDRIVER, I couldn't resist adding them to the MOBO winners list for a cheap laugh... but the 3 examples of numberous white winners of MOBO's prove that they far from exclude white people, so white people dont have to feel marginalised. So lets stop standing in the corner snearing about 'political correctness gone mad' nonsense and get involved in black history month by enjoying this rather tastless picture of a blacked up Al Jolson, which rather amusingly undoes all of the liberal defence of black culture in one felled swoop.



And he was doing so well.