Rageh on Race

Although most readers will be focused on BNP Chairman Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC's Question Time tomorrow evening, another TV item may provide a diversion in the coming week. On Monday evening Channel four will be broadcasting a documentary under the heading “Race and Intelligence: Science's last taboo”

The show will be fronted by the Somali born reporter Rageh Omaar, the one time BBC news reporter who many in Britain will recall for his somewhat idiosyncratic reporting of the Invasion of Iraq, and his various documentary reports such as “An Islamic History of Europe” for the BBC, “Immigration – the inconvenient truth” for Channel Four and “Islam in America” broadcast last year by his new employers, Al Jazeera. Seems to have a theme, doesn't he?

As evidence of his credentials in what now passes for journalism, in 2003, Omar was the recipient of an EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy) award for best TV journalist

The documentary promises to “examine and expose” the numerous myths about race, and Rageh will, amongst other things, interview various academics including supporters of the Bell Curve theory in relation to relative intelligence. WOW! I wonder how those interviews will be presented and what conclusions they will reach?

We all of course know without bothering to watch what approach this so called “documentary” will take and what its findings will be. Anything which fails to comply with the attitudes and beliefs of the multicultural maniacs in our media, or upset their latest darlings would be unthinkable and anyone involved would be instantly unemployable.

The advance publicity for the programme refers to the comments made by the father of DNA James Watson, (a man who won a Nobel Prize when it still meant something) on a recent visit to Britain, suggesting a difference in IQ levels between Africans and Europeans, and effectively destroying his International reputation. No doubt Rageh and Channel 4 will ensure that his reputation is further trashed.

Will it be worth watching? Probably not, but I may do so out of a morbid fascination in how far TV documentary in this country has sunk.

It would be quite hilarious to think that the makers of a program fronted by a Somali reporter, with a track record for making racially attitudinal statements and racially subjective television documentaries (now employed by the voice of Islam) and broadcast on a television channel so politically correct it makes the Guardian seem almost balanced, could imagine for one moment that any viewers will take it seriously.

It is however, a testament to the state which this country has reached that there will be people out there who will watch it and actually believe that Rageh is presenting a balanced, honest and accurate report, and that is really rather sad.