Reflections of a stormy petrel

I agree. But what is appalling about Martin is that he represents the waste of a whole generation, perhaps two, in idiotic macho dreams and looseness of every kind - from loose language that almost consciously neglects the dignity of English to scattershot giving birth here and there just to produce more ill-suited numbers. And I doubt it's only among blacks; I have seen exactly similar attitudes and behaviours over here, at least, among the shattered and defeated remnants of Britain's former working class. And that is not Martin's fault: he'd have had to be a kind of hero to escape an environment that is so bad and destructive in every way.