I’d rather not think about it.

If she got slung out of work she could devote ALL her time and energies into meeting his needs ! Or is it more a case of him seeing to her needs ? Mind boggling.

But what about Gary?

Time she buggered off and took one of those vacant jobs in the care sector although I would prefer that she wasn’t caring for anyone in my extended family. After all she’d probably exterminate him/her just for shitting in the wrong place. Thus she seems unemployable.

Oddly enough I spoke to a Scouser last weekend who was egg-static about Abbasock and Poolhelly. Sold on North Wales she said that she would next time visit Tenby cos she’d seen it on the telly. When I asked her if she knew where Tenby is she said “just below Abbawhistwith” . I said “yeah about 15 miles further on, then turn right and follow the edge of the sea for a while”

It’s a cynical and manipulative reduction of culture and diversity to a skin colour. It is a founded on the concept that a Welsh citizen of part Caribbean culture shares the same ‘ishoos’ as someone from India and lumping them in with the whole of Africa. It’s the British Imperial classification of ‘black’. As if the Matabele culture is the same as that of the Hausa or Somali, all of which have vastly different and unique culture and language. It is to classify ‘blacks’, in the same way as Cecil Rhodes did, a colonial grouping founded on racism. To reduce a person only to define then by colour of skin, and it’s being funded by the Welsh Government.

Another line of questioning in this vein is how much a factor does ‘one drop’ play? I’m reminded of the much hullabaloo’d recent HRH Hewitt interview with Oprah, in which their son was referred to being “Of colour”. Now, the mother is about as dark in complexion as perhaps an Italian or a Spaniard, and father is a well known ginge, so I’d be very surprised if the kid was anything but Caucasian in outward appearance. Ergo, nobody in their right mind could call him Black.

These sorts of situations get me wondering as to whether ‘of colour’ is a sort of euphemism for ‘one drop’-ness, which gets logically silly very quickly as you traverse back though probably almost anyone’s ethnic ancestry. Ironically, the thinking behind what was originally terminology for classifying people by ‘blackness’ in the days of slavery, Quadroons and the like, has in a sense been co-opted by modern day leftist do-gooders.

Diolch, Wynne.

Too kind, squire. There will be one more post (at least) about this shambles at the Arts Council. Actually, I think it’s a lot worse than just a confused shambles.