Douglas Murray in the Telegraph blogs delivered an epic slapdown of a colleague who made a veiled accusation of racism against him here, apropos his observations about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Diane Abbott.
His original post is here. It is the one that prompted me to repost the video of Abbott vs Brillo.
The accusation comes in this post from Richard Spencer. See Dellingpole’s post in the comments.
Here’s the masterful response from Murray:
Well, I guess Richard Spencer and I had very different friends – and told very different jokes – at school. In response to my nomination of Diane Abbott as possibly the “stupidest woman in Britain”, Richard writes:
It may be, of course, a coincidence that the candidates, Diane Abbott MP and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a newspaper columnist, are both from ethnic minorities, and that Murray had gone through the white contenders and assigned them to third, fourth and fifth places without telling us.
Is it a coincidence? Did I single out these two women because of the colour of their skin? Very obviously not, I would have thought. I don’t think I have to rehearse here the reasons why an obsession with skin pigmentation is not my bag, even if it might be Richard Spencer’s.
But I should first like to register that there is something infinitely wearying as well as predictable about these criticisms and insinuations. It seems to me exactly what is wrong with our politics and political discourse in Britain. We have for some time now been in a period in which, as I’ve often explained, people appear to believe that their “identity” is more important than their ideas.
It is the reason why so many people find it impossible to pose any question from an audience without starting: “As a woman of Indian background”, or “As a gay man”, and so on. It is very, very tedious. Particularly if you believe people are defined not by their skin colour or sexuality but by the thoughts in their head and the way in which they live their lives.
AJ
Al Jahom's Final Word 
Abbott failed to impress me when I met her and Linda Bellos in the early 80s in Brixton. Reverse racism, she despised the whites there from what I saw. Y-A-B is different, a coconut if one will. (Hope I can use that word without getting arrested, like Basil Brush, remember that?) Y-A-B seems to dither between being a right on sista and polite Asian laydee. I must now take my honky Papist ass to the DSS and try and score some money from The Man.