Entirely. Bigotry of low expectations.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/jason-arday-has-become-britains-george-floyd/
The audience was majority-black, but the white members of the crowd cheered on every use of the racialized “we” and “us”, obligingly raising their fists in the Black Power salute when asked by another speaker. Jolyon Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project who has authored a petition demanding a public inquiry into Arday’s death, acknowledged that he was somewhat out of place, declaring that “today of all days is a day for white people to listen, and not to speak.” His speech, which touched on “the richness and inherent humanity of black people” and the need to regulate “our increasingly revolting press”, lasted for several more minutes. In among these diatribes against the media and references to “black excellence”, Arday himself — who by the accounts of several people who knew him was gentle and kind, but flawed — was obscured. Instead he was treated as a combination of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King and George Floyd: a trailblazing scholar, a champion of civil rights, and a martyr. Simon Woolley, the principal of Cambridge’s Homerton College, called Arday’s death a “public assassination” and a “lynching”. He lauded “this wonderful man” who “never stole a pack of crisps”. Arday, in this telling, “was exonerated of plagiarism, but the hounds of hell sought to pursue any inaccuracy that meant they could say ‘Jason is a bad man.’”
https://archive.ph/B1lme
The audience was majority-black, but the white members of the crowd cheered on every use of the racialized “we” and “us”, obligingly raising their fists in the Black Power salute when asked by another speaker. Jolyon Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project who has authored a petition demanding a public inquiry into Arday’s death, acknowledged that he was somewhat out of place, declaring that “today of all days is a day for white people to listen, and not to speak.” His speech, which touched on “the richness and inherent humanity of black people” and the need to regulate “our increasingly revolting press”, lasted for several more minutes. In among these diatribes against the media and references to “black excellence”, Arday himself — who by the accounts of several people who knew him was gentle and kind, but flawed — was obscured. Instead he was treated as a combination of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King and George Floyd: a trailblazing scholar, a champion of civil rights, and a martyr. Simon Woolley, the principal of Cambridge’s Homerton College, called Arday’s death a “public assassination” and a “lynching”. He lauded “this wonderful man” who “never stole a pack of crisps”. Arday, in this telling, “was exonerated of plagiarism, but the hounds of hell sought to pursue any inaccuracy that meant they could say ‘Jason is a bad man.’”
https://archive.ph/B1lme
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