[Guinness]

I’m getting mighty tired of people trying to make me feel guilty for being white!

First we have the Oscar debacle, where the complaint was that there were no black nominations in ‘major categories’.

Hey guys (or should that be bro’s) there were no good films with black actors or directors this time….there was no Amistad, no Driving Miss Daisy, no Unforgiven, no 12 years a slave, no Slumdog Millionaire etc..etc..

It’s not like black actors/films have been ignored…even way back in the 30’s the maid in Gone with the Wind and Ol’ Man River Robeson got the nod.

If it were down to me I would have voted Denzel for The Equalizer in 2014 ( but then again I like my films to be violent, escapist hokum and I don’t care if the main guy is black or white, hell I even like Eddie Murphy in Beverley Hills Cop)……..

And now we have a complaint in the Grammys……Bowie, Frey and Lemmy were to be celebrated but White was just going to part of the montage of musicians we lost last year (until the black musicians kicked off)....

Yup I said ‘White’…… hands up who know who Bowie, Frey and Lemmy are?

Now if I say ‘Maurice White’?

‘Earth, Wind and Fire’? ( Quick test to prove a point ..name an Eagles, Bowie, Motorhead and EWF hit…Think I can guess which one you struggled with)

Ok, Maurice White won the same amount of grammys as the Eagles, and more than Bowie and Motorhead put together, but he wasn’t a ‘name’ that people recognised, and if you are selling a show, you headline the people who draw the crowds…nothing to do with colour or creed!

And it’s about to kick off with the Baftas too….too much white in Pride and Prejudice, Downtown Abbey, Poldark???……hell lets rewrite history in the interest of diversity and inclusion?? Maybe a couple of Nigerian mill owners supervising the Peterloo massacre, a Somali gamekeeper on the Chatterly estate and Cathy running across the moors shouting ‘Mohammed’

To be Pythonesque…it’s all getting very, very silly!