David Starkey

Dear BBC Headquaters,
                               I am writing this complaint in regards to the David Starkey's recent racist comment on News Night about the recent riots which occured couple months back. I believe the debate was held unfairly and very poorly. Such comments should have never been aired out on national television.  His comments were disgusting and outrageous, and he should have never been seated on the panel in the first place.
Although, he made these comments of his free will. However,  I find the BBC should also be blammed for allowing Starkey to express his feelings. And also, I feel the converstion should have been cut as soon as he started with those racist comments and being ignorance.

"We must therefore balance our presumption of freedom of expression with our responsibilities, for example to respect privacy, to be fair, to avoid unjustifiable offence and to provide appropriate protection for our audiences from harm."  According to the BBC regulations, the audience is at the heart of everything they do and expressions that are made should not be of harm to them. Well, I beg to differ on the grounds on whether such statement was a fact, then David Starkey would never have had the oppurtunity to lash out at Black people and blame the riots on "the black culture or way of life"

David Starkey is a racist man and  personally I think his opinions should no longer be of value, if all he is going to do is sterotype and blame all things bad on another person because of the color of their skin, their denomination or their way of life. As a viewer of the BBC, I am very disappointed and annoyed at the way you all allowed the debate to persisted and gave David Starkey the opportunity to disrespect the black culture, and I also feel there weren't enough done on his case.