Not even Quentin Tarantino, notorious for the violence of his movies, could have orchestrated the past week’s reaction to a report by the government’s commission on racial disparities more effectively. His most successful film, Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, features a fight to the death between two black men, complete with grotesquely dislocated limbs and gouged eyeballs, staged purely for the pleasure of Leonardo DiCaprio’s slaveowner.
Last week what passed for “debate” turned out to be five days of what, in my early days in journalism, we would have called “Mandingo fighting”. So far I have yet to see, or hear of, a single discussion that involves a person from this country’s ethnic majority, which accounts for 85 per cent of our people. Broadcasters
