The tragedy of Jason Arday was barely wrapped up, his body not yet cold, before the racism cryers were swarming social media. ‘He’d still be alive if he’d been white’ — that was the wail of these ghouls of grievance. Within hours of the announcement of his death, a scalding morality tale had been forged: he was unjustly hounded by the media, and it’s because he was black. It’s a narrative as full of holes as some of those that the tragic Arday weaved during his career. It mustn’t stand.
The racists were his enablers.
