When ‘White Racism’ Trumps Black Murder

"The more crime non-whites commit, the more ‘systemically racist’ the system is deemed to be. That is a foolish game to play."
A thoughtful essay.

From The European Conservative

By Frank Haviland

On December 3rd last year, 18-year-old Henry Nowak, a first-year student at the University of Southampton, was stabbed four times by his alleged attacker, Vickrum Digwa. As a Sikh, Digwa was permitted to carry a ceremonial kirpan knife. Perhaps this wasn’t butch enough, however, so he decided to complete his arsenal with an 8-inch blade or shastar (a Punjabi word for ‘weapon’ or ‘knife’), just to be on the safe side. The trial at Southampton Crown Court has heard how Digwa “aggressively pursued” his victim, inflicted the fatal wounds, and stood over him as he bled. In Snapchat footage recorded moments before the attack, Nowak taunted Digwa to say he was a bad man. Digwa replied: “I am a bad man.” He did not call for help.

Here’s the problem for Nowak: he was white; his assailant was not. Which means Digwa was perfectly within his rights to play the race card and did so to maximum effect.

When the police arrived at the scene, they handcuffed the collapsed victim (which must have been a relief to those concerned about where his blood was going). According to bodycam footage played in court, Nowak repeatedly told the officers that he had been stabbed and “couldn’t breathe.” They still handcuffed him. The police eventually decided to render first aid, shortly before Nowak lost consciousness. The ironic parallels with George Floyd are so obvious I feel I need comment no further. 

Digwa, meanwhile, claimed he acted in “self-defence,” faced with the unspeakable violence of Nowak’s alleged “racial abuse.” Despite the four fatal stab wounds, the fact that Nowak’s phone was later discovered in Digwa’s pocket, and the revelation that Digwa’s mother was allegedly filmed removing and disposing of the knife, Digwa’s barrister shamefully instructed jurors to decide whether the murderer acted “in the heat of the moment.”  

The pattern

Alas, this is not an isolated incident. It is the latest confirmation of a pattern which stretches across the pond from Britain to the United States: non-white attackers can, it seems, stab, rape or even kill white victims while hurling racial epithets and still walk free or face only token consequences, because the counterclaim of ‘racism’ is treated as mitigation or even justification. 

Just months earlier, in Portland, Oregon, a jury acquitted Gary Edwards (a black homeless man) of second-degree assault after he stabbed Gregory Howard Jr. (a white homeless man) in the shoulder. Edwards admitted to the stabbing but claimed self-defence because Howard called him a “nigger” after the attack had taken place. The jury bought it. He walked free. The victim’s racial slur, uttered in pain and shock, was apparently enough to nullify the violence.

Travel to Charlotte, North Carolina, and you will observe the same discriminating pattern playing out—only this time, in reverse. In August 2025, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska (who made the mistake of being openly white in public) was minding her own business on a train when career criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr. stabbed her repeatedly in the neck. As she bled out in front of her unconcerned fellow passengers, Brown was heard saying, “I got that white bitch!” He was later ruled ‘incompetent to stand trial’. No national media frenzy. No demands for justice. Just another white victim erased, because the perpetrator’s heinous crime and explicit racial animus did not fit the approved narrative. So much so in fact, that unlike George Floyd, Zarutska’s memorial had to be taken down because it was deemed “divisive.”

Travel the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, meanwhile, and you will find a curious double standard in terms of the Muslim grooming gangs. Not only were rape victims repeatedly ignored, disbelieved, and betrayed by those charged with their protection, there were even prosecutions for the victims ‘racially abusing’ their abusers (while, naturally, the abusers were not investigated until years later). To add insult to injury, the victims’ fathers were also more likely to get their collars felt for a ‘breach of the peace’ when they attempted to rescue their daughters from the rapists.

Let’s pause for a moment to consider the mental gymnastics required here. If A is black and B is white, A is apparently allowed to racially abuse B without consequence. If B racially abuses A, then A is entitled to rape, stab, or murder B, without consequence. If A racially abuses and rapes, stabs, murders B, then A will be deemed ‘incompetent to stand trial.’ One can’t help wondering, if Iryna Zarutska had lived long enough to utter something racist, whether Decarlos Brown would have needed the defence of ‘unfit to stand trial’ at all. 

For all intents and purposes then, if you’re white, ‘racism’ now trumps murder. Dark times indeed, and I daresay that’s sufficient grounds for many of you to kill me. 

The lie of equality

As I argued in Banalysis: The Lie Destroying The West, the greatest coup the Left ever pulled off was the denial of variance—i.e., reality. To square the lie of equality with the fact that genders, races, groups perform differently, it was necessary to do two things: thwart success and criminalise the observers. Hence the need for an ‘Asian tax’ in higher education to stop Asians outperforming other demographics, lower military standards for women because they can’t keep up with the men, and ‘girl-friendly’ examinations to stop the boys from doing better. 

Meanwhile, if you notice that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime, are concerned about these levels of crime, or wish to remove yourself from these levels of crime, you are without doubt ‘racist.’ Thus, the lie of equality is protected at all costs.

There is a simple choice to be made here. Society can either accept the fact that blacks commit a vastly disproportionate amount of crime (53% of knife crime and 61% of murders in London, while making up just 13% of the population) and honestly appraise the reasons for this (absent fathers, gang culture, lower IQs, poverty, etc.)—or it can find excuses. Alas, for decades, British governments have cravenly hidden behind the accusation of ‘racism’: the more crime non-whites commit, the more ‘systemically racist’ the system is deemed to be. That is a foolish game to play.

Equality after the law

No longer interested in equality before the law, the authorities are only concerned with equality after the law. Which is why our laws now seek only to penalise white men; why the Notting Hill Carnival is a criminal amnesty in all but name; why former justice secretary David Lammy once argued that black and minority ethnic offenders should be allowed to ‘hide’ their convictions from potential employers; and presumably why he now wants to raise the age of criminality. 

As I have long argued, the accusation of racism is the Left’s most potent weapon. It is a charge which cannot be defended and requires no evidence to assert. Thanks to this one word, British society is already de facto two-tier. Muslim rape gangs continue to operate with impunity because protecting white girls would be ‘racist.’ Police refuse to stop and search young black men with similar reasoning. How long before it is actually legal to stab someone white because he was ‘racist,’ because he looked ‘racist,’ or merely because he was white? You may laugh, but please explain the joke to Henry Nowak, as I don’t think he’d get it. 

No society in history would be able to delude themselves on this scale without indoctrination. Thankfully, our children are now being taught from the age of seven to reflect on their “white privilege” and that blacks “cannot be racist” to them. In other words, to accept their fate and pay the price for the lie that diversity is ‘our greatest strength.’ 

I grieve for the victims of this lie. And I wonder how comforting it is for them, as they lie dying in a pool of their own blood, to know that it was their ‘privilege’—not black ‘racism’—wot done it.