Iz it Cos I iz Black?

Played at their own game.

It has emerged that an artistic director at one of the UK’s few black-led theatres has been masquerading as black. Anthony Ekundayo Lennon describes himself as an “African born again” and stated in 2012 that “although I’m white, with white parents, I have gone through the struggles of a black man, a black actor”.

Not only has Lennon enjoyed a wide sphere of influence as the artistic director of a black-led theatre company in east London, but last year, he was one of a number of recipients who shared a £406,000 award from Arts Council England as part of a residential traineeship – crucial funding dedicated to artists of colour

To which, of course, the appropriate answer is a big fat “meh”. These people have been peddling identity politics for so long now they are in danger of disappearing up their own collective fundaments. So Lennon has self-identified as Black. Yeah? So? That’s all fine and dandy for the progressives, isn’t it? Oh, no, not in this case. Oh the hypocrisy. Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth. And, yes, apparently funding is based upon racist lines and that is all okay, apparently.

That there is any funding at all from the taxpayer is criminal, but given that it happens, to see someone taking the piss – even if not intentionally – and the subsequent ferrets in a sack is amusing to behold. The hypocrisy of the left, the double standards of the right-on woke arseholes is on display and that is a good thing, for ordinary people can see them for what they are.