The lessons of the Chris Kaba case

I wonder if we should join with the radical campaigning organisation Buy Larger Mansions (BLM) in order to protest about both the verdict in the Chris Kaba case and indeed the racism inherent in the Metropolitan Police? Perhaps we can get Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer to wear some BLM badges on Match of the Day and recreate the heady, exciting atmosphere of 2020 when white liberals in the US and here decided that George Floyd was a kind of combination of Toussaint Louverture and Rosa Parks, rather than a former criminal jailed eight times, including for robbery with a deadly weapon.

In the Floyd case, the man who killed him, a policeman called Derek Chauvin, was convicted, following a tidal wave of self-pity and self-righteousness and middle-class people taking the knee so often they wore holes in their Silas jeans. Perhaps in order to replicate that kind of cathartic stuff over here, we need to move towards the American model for selecting juries, where the prosecution can stuff them with people it believes will help them win the conviction.

This is what happened in the Floyd case, and so the jury which convicted Chauvin was comprised of six black or mixed-race people, in a county where the black and mixed-race population stood at about 18 per cent. We could do that, and also check that they are on board with the general BLM message that whitey is always an oppressor and that those of us unfortunate enough to be born white should spend our lives cringing, saying sorry and flagellating ourselves with a birch switch. Oh, and that we should abolish the family and capitalism and force white folk to give their homes over to black folk and then profusely thank them for it.

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Even without this, there is still plenty of poison and counter-rational grandstanding we might do in the case of poor Mr Kaba, whose life clearly held so much potential, given that at the age of 24 he was driving a £100,000 Audi Q8, presumably as a consequence of diligence and hard work on his behalf.