Were there any salient points?

ent space."…

Then, claiming to have put "anything remotely near considered antisemitic to one side", the journalist writes that "not too many seem prepared to vocalise their consternation for some of the recurring themes Wiley believes is the stranglehold one community seems to have over another in particular relation but not confined to, the music business."

Later in the article, Mr Campbell writes: "There is no way to put this all in one nutshell but the hypothesis that you need to get a Jewish lawyer in order to progress in the music business may be a complete fallacy (I haven’t done the numbers, looking into the correlation in respect of who is and isn’t successful with or without one), but yet it remains.

"I’ve never seen anyone Jewish refute or confirm this (maybe there was never a need felt to do so), but maybe, it’s a discussion that needs to be had?"

Really? 

At one stage in the interview Wiley suggests "Slavery hasn’t stopped it’s just dressed up in a million pound record deal.”
 
Questioned over what his issue with the Jews he has worked with is, Wiley then tells the newspaper: “The things that need to change is the way that the system was set up, why all of these families are rich, or all of these people have heritage, not just England, like, worldwide.”

“They still see us as slaves. Slavery hasn’t stopped it’s just dressed up in a million pound record deal and it’s dressed up in trainer deals, nice shoes and it’s dressed up as come over here …."

Complaining that even successful black artists "making these people millions and trillions, and then at the end of the black kids career he hasn’t even got a property" Wiley adds, "they have got ten properties and this and that and their kids have got wages to go to school forever. It’s set up so that they win and we lose.”

So "Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper" publishes an interview in which Wiley is allowed to repeat his antisemitic slurs, and they can't manage any sort of rebuttal. In fact they wonder if perhaps he's on to something. "Maybe, it’s a discussion that needs to be had?" 

That, to put it mildly, is disappointing.

Comments

  1. Shir Avatar
    Shir

    I think someone is using Jews to throw other minorities off their case

  2. Martin Morgan Avatar
    Martin Morgan

    See Stephen Bush of the New Statesman: I’ve written a letter to the managing editor, which you can read here, which is hopefully slightly more articulate than my initial reaction of “urrggghhhhh”was:
    https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/1288837064746774529

  3. Mick H Avatar
    Mick H

    Yes, a good letter.

  4. Joanne Avatar

    Yes, I read the letter, too. Well done! Thanks for the link.

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