Free Speech protest was too white

Black Information Link is attacking Saturday's March for Free Expression on the basis that most of the people there were white. 

Clearly, it is OK for a predominantly Asian crowd to protest against Danish cartoons or for a predominantly black group to demonstrate demanding reparations for slavery but if white people stand up for their own traditions,  free speech and the rule of law,  they must be (gasp!) racist.

Update: Drinking from Home has some photographs which show that the March for Free Expression was a lot more diverse than the Muslim anti-freedom rally in Birmingham.

Comments

[The Pedant-General]

Sorry,

Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Association and all that.

If no-one or very few people who skin colour just happens to be darker chose to take some time out on a rainy Saturday to join the demo, how is the fault of the demonstrators who did show up?

Everyone makes their own choices.

blink seem to be doing their bit for the race-industry and group politics. yuck.

[Dave]

Part of the problem is the segregation. Blacks live in black areas, whites with whites, Asians with Asians. When they see a report on Britain that contains very few of their group compared to they way their eyes usually see Britain it must seem odd.