Although I don't like much being lumped in with a group of people who, apparently, love playing divide and rule (I'm racking my brains for evidence of that kind of behaviour) I guess that's small beer in comparison with the sort of stereotyping black people have to put up with, and on the whole I rather like Diane Abbott. I agree with virtually none of her views, as far as those are available to the public, but I like people who say what they think, even if it sometimes means they say stupid things like this, and I don't share the widespread perception that she is a hypocrite for sending her son to an expensive public school. If I had a black or mixed race son I'd want to keep him well away from the kind of culture which affects an awful lot of young black men in Britain.
Please excuse the stereotyping there, Diane.
When the BBC did get round to reporting the story about ten minutes in to its lunchtime bulletin, its reporter rather let the side down, I felt, by describing Abbott's explanation for her tweet - that she was referring to 19th century colonialism - as "bizarre". I am quite capable of making up my mind whether Abbott's explanation is rational or barking mad without any help from you, madam.
There may be no such thing as objective reporting, but need it be quite so obvious?
