You might say that establishment comic Lenny Henry (full title Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE) has done reasonably ok for himself. Despite being mostly absent from the stand-up circuit for decades, he is never short of work in a variety of roles - on stage, screen and behind the scenes as screenwriter and producer. He has had numerous honours bestowed on him, beginning with a CBE in 1999, followed by a knighthood in 2015. He has been recognised with various lifetime awards, has an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent Univeristy and he was recently given the freedom of the City of London. He has a reported net worth of £7.3million.
It's not a bad résumé for a Black Country-born lad from a large Jamaican immigrant family. He is perhaps one of the finest examples of how colour is not a barrier to success in the UK, as long as one is prepared to work for it.
And yet instead of promoting that message to those who expect to have the easy life bestowed on them, he has joined the chorus of demand for 'slavery reparations'. What's more, this pursuit of victimhood for the black community did not happen in a throwaway line during a media interview - he has co-wrote an entire book that lays out the case for £18 trillion worth of reparations to people who have never been slaves, whose parents and grandparents weren't slaves.
Absurd.
His book, co-penned with diversity hack Marcus Ryder MBE, is entitled The Big Payback, and justifies reparations with the usual claims that black Britons are forever victims of an institutionally racist country. The pair claim reparations will 'end racism', overlooking the fact that such a colossal payout would make multimillionaires of every black Briton, driving up inflation and pissing off just about every non-black person in the entire country.
It's remarkable that such a book of idiotic victimhood can be written by two guys who have apparently done so well for themselves without success having been handed to them on a plate...
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