Why I Won't Be Making A BLM Statement...
Because My Rich And Successful Afro-American Ex-Boyfriend Thinks 'Anti-Racism' Is Pants. Here's Why.
This year I got a surprise Valentine’s gift — champagne and chocolates from my favourite Californian tech boy.
Which leads me to a serious subject — one I don’t find easy to write about. Because Tech Boy, bless him, is the Afro-American son of a Tennessee share cropper. His formative years were spent in the notorious South Central district of Los Angeles, dodging violent gangs and finding them a good deal more scary than the cops.
Nowadays he owns two houses and does something brainy with telephones at the very cutting edge of geekiness. We met when he was stationed here in Yorkshire. I used to joke that he was ‘defending the free world at American taxpayer expense’.
But here’s the thing. According to critical social justice theory, Tech Boy ought not exist. A movement that prides itself on exposing the ‘erasure’ of black people’s experiences has done its best to erase his. He’s too successful, too …