Time To Evict This Racism Whitewash From Our TV

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By Anvar Khan

Another series, 68 irate callers, a white contestant is kicked off Big Brother. Wow, it's like shooting fluffy albino rabbits in the eye. You can line them up all you like but obliterating young WASP-ish girls who just want fame for free, well, that's nasty.
If you think that anyone of colour takes the BB race row cliché seriously, well, you must be white.
Punitive measures abound. In this week's BB debacle, 19 year old drama student Emily Parr called fellow housemate Charley Uchea a 'nigger'. It was meant ironically although there is nothing ironic about being black. Parr has been overexposed to much 'gangsta rap' as it's known in the suburbs. Young white Britain don't know that the word 'nigga' has been adopted by some sections of the black community. It is their word, their irreverent cultural motif. No-one else's.
Sadly, Parr was doing what white people do now and again when they try to ingratiate themselves to black people; she was trying to get with the homies and use their language. And whitey's clumsy attempts to get down with black people always ends up, well, making them look like Noel Edmonds but without the sense of rhythm.
In other words, a black person can call him or herself a 'nigga', but a white person can't join in. Whitey cannot pay homage to racially abusive language; the reclaiming of 'nigger' can only come from another black person. Hey, these are the rules.
The cult of political correctness was never strong amongst brown and black; it was merely designed for neurotic, fearful whitey. It was a language revolution designed to stamp out racism towards ethnic minorities. Now it's a stick white people use to beat themselves with.
The eviction of Emily Par is all about whitey patrolling whitey. The ethnic minorities of Britain know that racism neither lives nor dies by BB's hand. I have more sympathy for a bimbo trying to be cool than I do the dial-happy viewers who judge her. I just see a guilty conscience being exorcised in Emily's exit. The only people calmed are other white people;
I don't know why Ch4 producers hire contestants with racist Tourette's. Ideally I want the real deal; I want Ch4 to be clear on what they think represents true sociopathic, unrestrained, delinquent, sadistic racism.
Apparently they think it's Emily Parr. I fail to see what is anti-racist in punishing a pale-skinned wannabe who has done nothing but confirm both her racial insecurity, and her ignorance of racial politics in front of a nation.
The eviction of a contestant for using the 'n' word as it is usually delicately known, is actually all about white people having a strop amongst themselves.