Our old friends BBC "News" have written a profile on Winston McKenzie as part of their coverage of the London Mayoral election. They have done the same for the other 9 candidates.
Mr McKenzie's is the only profile I have read thus far. This is because I can guess what the others stand for:
Boris Johnson- Conservative Party- Free markets, free people and lots of money
Ken Livingstone- Labour Party- Back-breaking taxation of every type imaginable. Less pigeons.
Brian Paddick- Liberal Democrats- Communism
Richard Barnbrook- British National Party- Racist Communism
Sian Berry- Green Party- Communist racism
Alan Craig- Christian People's Alliance- God
Mr McKenzie's profile contains some absolute gems. It notes that his MySpace describes him as:
Writer, keep-fit instructor, educational motivator and modern-day philanthropist
As you can well imagine, given that he and I are so similar I am now inclined to vote for him. He goes on to destroy that rapport:
They say it's impossible. They say it can't be done. The truth is, London will see its first ever black mayor. The history books of politics shall be re-written
I have scoured the record books and opinion pages as research on the above statement. I can confirm that Mr McKenzie is completely correct, there has never been a black mayor in the history of London.
This seems pretty outrageous so I looked into it further and did some of my own research. Do you realise that this comes out to a percentage of 0% of mayors of London being black? Damning stuff.
In my research however I did only find one person mentioning the impossiblity of a black mayor of London, to whit:
BBC "News" profile of Winston McKenzie
Finally, I went back and counted how many mayors of London there have been to illustrate the depth of this problem, I also researched these "history books of politics" to see just what Mr McKenzie has to overcome in this election:
Number of mayors > 0
Number of black mayors =<>Life of mayoralty of London = 95 (months)
Google results for history books of politics = (about) 12,700,00 (in only 0.23 seconds, imagine if it had searched for a whole second!)
Mr McKenzie has a lot of rewriting to do once this grave injustice against black Londoners across the globe and across time has been righted.
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