Jungle helped establish a post-racial Britain by defying racial sound categories

Evidence

So yes, Simon is right, if the hardcore continuum had any impact on politics it was in playing a part in establishing a post-racial Britain. It was impossible to fit jungle into a pre-existing racial narrative — it didn’t sound like “white” or “black” music. And the extent to which the hardcore continuum has helped to consolidate this sense of the post-racial was made clear by an hilarious recent piece in Vice magazine called “Babes of the BNP”, in which female supporters of the far right British National Party were interviewed. One question was: “In terms of the BNP’s repatriation policy on immigration, if you had to choose, who would you repatriate first, Dizzee Rascal or Tinchy Stryder?” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1272

Categorization

• CANDY: BNP supporters asked to choose which black pop star to repatriate first is a darkly absurd, tweetable cultural detail.
• XREF: connects to: Jungle and UK garage created a post-racial British people before it fully arrived socially — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1267; British anti-racism discourse centred on colour until the early 1990s — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 730

Broader Connections

• British anti-racism discourse centred on colour until the early 1990s #qualifies (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 730