Punctuality as a sign of white supremacism
Being on time is often regarded by both African-Americans and black people in Britain as a weird fetish; a symbol of white supremacism, according to some.
SIMON WEBB
FEB 13


Anybody who has dealings with black people, whether in educational settings such as schools, colleges and universities, or socially, or in the workplace, will be well aware of the fact that punctuality tends to be less strictly observed by those of sub-Saharan African ancestry than is routinely the case with white people or those belonging to other ethnicities. This habitual lateness is not caused because some people are too poor to be able to afford a wristwatch. Nor is it a cultural legacy, as some have suggested, a relic of the days when Africans rose with the sun and went to bed when it got dark, with no artificial division of the day into hours and minutes. It is rather a deliberate strategy, a way of demonstrating power over, contempt for, or disregard of, the ordinary conventions of life in western society. It is, in short, intentional discourtesy weaponised to be used against what is perceived as white,