An all too plausible scenario involving a young black man: 18-year-old John Jones was walking home one night after spending time with friends; he was not drunk, nor did he have any criminal record. At some point he encountered a young white man, angry about something, who proceeded to stab Jones multiple times. The police were contacted and told that a black man had assaulted a white man, forcing him to defend himself. When Officer Bubba and colleagues arrived on the scene Jones stated several times “I’ve been stabbed, to which Officer Bubba replied, “No you haven’t, boy.” As Jones lay on the ground, the police placed him under arrest, even rolling him over to handcuff him from behind. Jones died soon thereafter.

(Above) John Jones was a fictional character in chapter 13 of WEB Du Bois' seminal book The Souls of Black Folks, which in many ways set the path for the perpetual grievance mindset- Jones was lynched at the end of the chapter

As the facts emerged it became clear that Jones was not the aggressor in any way, and that the murderous white man fabricated the entire narrative. Once the truth was made public, the story was too egregious to ignore, and the white man was convicted of murder. The authorities eventually acknowledged this was regrettable, but strongly cautioned the black population to NOT use it as an excuse to demand change.

Move forward 100 years and consider an incident in which the murder victim was a real person named Harry Nowak, but this did NOT occur in the segregated Jim Crow South but in the ostensibly enlightened United Kingdom. Nowak was an 18-year-old college student and white. His killer is Vickrum Digwa, a UK born citizen and a Sikh, which fully qualified him as a “brown” person in the minds of people who are consumed with such things, meaning pretty much the entire elite progressive world.

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion/philosophy with a underlying belief of equality among all humans. Its founding was around 500 years ago in NW India (the Punjab region). During the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 several 100,000 Sikhs were killed, and there is animosity between Sikhs and Muslims. To this day there are periodic border clashes between Muslim Pakistan and the Punjab. Sikhism has no interest in achieving global dominance, either through overt aggression or more subtle infiltration of “infidel” countries and cultures.

For symbolic and historic reasons male Sikhs are required to carry a small dagger called a kirpan. This is of significance because the UK has put severe restrictions on purchasing and carrying knives (about 46% of murders in the UK involve knives). Sikhs have special permission to carry their kirpans, which brings up interesting questions about religious, civil, and equal rights. Vickrum Digma had not only his kirpan, but a larger dagger (8 inches) called a shastar, which was the murder weapon.

This article is not about Sikhism, however, but about simple words an oppressive society can use to further the agenda of those in power, as exemplified in the killing of Harry Nowak. Peppered throughout history are political powers that maintained control by freely using accusations to instill fear. Think back to European Christianity in the Middle-Ages and the awesome and awful power of calling someone a heretic. Similarly, an accusation of being a “counter-revolutionary” in the Soviet Union could have dire and even fatal consequences. At this time in history the most dreaded word (top among many accusations made by elite Westerners) is “racist.” While “racism” is not yet a capital crime many people in authority pass laws, promulgate policies, and issue what are benignly referred to as "guidances" that leave in their paths destruction and death, terrified that if they don’t they will be accused of racism. Predictably many of the victims of their actions are minorities.

The UK is experiencing an epidemic of this, and claims of racism give the accuser immediate credence; this can be directly tied to the killing of Harry Nowak. Following the death of the hapless and petty career criminal George Floyd in 2020, many Western institutions decided to loudly proclaim they weren’t racists, including the UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council, that issued a “ Police Race Action Plan guidance.” This included the overtly discriminatory statement that achieving racial equity “does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’” and that forces should respond according to “specific needs, circumstances and experiences” of different ethnic groups. The reality on the ground is that police in the UK had to see law enforcement through a racial lens, and that “brown and black” people are to be accorded not just the presumption of innocence, but of believability.

Hence, when Harry Nowak was mortally stabbed in Dec. 2025 by a “brown” person and the police were told a fairy tale of “'We've just been attacked racially by some white person,” their response was inevitable: they assumed the non “brown or black” person was the criminal. They dragged and rolled the prostrate moribund young man, handcuffed him from behind, and when he uttered “I’ve been stabbed” one cop callously replied “I don’ think so, mate.” In a perverse irony, the last words Harry Nowak probably heard were the cops reading him the British version of his Miranda rights. Once Digwa was arrested he was not handcuffed and allowed to keep his kirpan.

This act of official bigotry was far from a standalone in the UK: incorporating skin-color based discrimination largely began as a virtue-signaling fad among the UK and Western elite, but it evolved into an addiction and became the establishment status quo. Like with the fictional character John Jones above, the establishment response was to offer platitudes about Harry Nowak, but then admonish and threaten the demographic most affected. UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood: “There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder. Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law."

The response of the globalist elite of Europe is to meet opposition with insults (everyone who disagrees with them is “far right”), passing laws to silence them (arresting people selectively for “hate speech”), and endless accusations of, of course, racism. As with the Jim Crow South, the UK’s strategy of marginalization and intimidation of unfavored demographic groups is easy and effective; it’s as if simply treating people equally and not based on the color of their skin, ethnicity, etc, never crossed their minds.