Darcus Howe Cites Racial Profiling As Key Factor In London Riots: The riots that broke out across England this week were the consequence of years of built-up resentment among Britain's young, mostly black, underclass, the Caribbean-British writer and activist Darcus Howe told The Huffington Post on Wednesday.
'It's an insurrection of a generation of poor, primarily, black people from the Caribbean and from Africa,' said Howe, who became something of an Internet sensation on this side of the Atlantic after his recent appearance on the BBC turned into a testy exchange over his claims that the authorities were failing to listen to the riots' underlying cause.
The police 'do not have any sense of what informs the explosive character of what is happening here,' Howe said, pointing his finger at the increasingly controversial practice of stopping and searching youth in working class neighborhoods.
