{"id":2826,"date":"2011-03-17T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/03\/17\/its-just-not-an-english-murder-with-a-black-victim\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:05:13","slug":"its-just-not-an-english-murder-with-a-black-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/03\/17\/its-just-not-an-english-murder-with-a-black-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just not an English murder with a Black victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<cite>Midsomer Murders<\/cite> creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/tv\/858090-midsomer-murders-creator-suspended-after-whites-only-comments\">explains why he wants to keep his murders white<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe ITV1 detective show, which has run for 14 series, \u2018wouldn\u2019t work\u2019 if there was any racial diversity in it, producer True-May said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u2018We\u2019re the last bastion of Englishness and I want to keep it that way,\u2019 he told Radio Times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe insisted he had never been tackled before about the \u2018whites only\u2019 rule in the show, which stars John Nettles as Det Ch Insp Tom Barnaby.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u2018I\u2019ve never been picked up on that but quite honestly I wouldn\u2019t want to change it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u2018We just don\u2019t have ethnic minorities involved. Because it wouldn\u2019t be the English village with them. It just wouldn\u2019t work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u2018Suddenly we might be in Slough. Ironically, Causton (one of the main centres of population in the show) is supposed to be Slough. And if you went into Slough you wouldn\u2019t see a white face there.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRacist, obnoxious, outrageous, call it what you want, but it&#8217;s the creative bankruptcy of his statement that explains why I&#8217;ve never watched a full eposde of <cite>Midsomer Murders<\/cite>. As if you can&#8217;t get that specific brand of sophorific excitement with the occasional Black or Asian face, as if the cozy menace can&#8217;t be created without some pasty white 1930ties England that never was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midsomer Murders creator explains why he wants to keep his murders white: The ITV1 detective show, which has run for 14 series, \u2018wouldn\u2019t work\u2019 if there was any racial diversity in it, producer True-May said. \u2018We\u2019re the last bastion of Englishness and I want to keep it that way,\u2019 he told Radio Times. He insisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}