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Following his comments on the riots, does David Starkey have a point?

Following his comments regarding race and the riots, does David Starkey have a point? Chris Warburton takes your calls.

On Newsnight last Friday, Dr David Starkey made comments about race following the riots in England. He said "The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion and black and white boys and girls operate in this language together. This language which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that has been intruded in England and that is why so many of us have this sense of literally of a foreign country."

Does Dr David Starkey have a point? Chris Warburton takes your calls. 

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