Black professor's anger at 'ludicrous' race hate probe

The police have dropped a probe into a leading academic who referred to former GB News presenter Calvin Robinson as a "house N***o", The Independent has learned. West Midlands Police officers visited Professor Kehinde Andrews at his Birmingham home on 4 September and then invited him to a voluntary interview, under threat of arrest.

- NADINE WHITE

The investigation followed a string of cases where Black and Asian people have faced prosecution for hate crimes after using specific language to criticise other people from ethnic minority communities for alleged compliance with oppressive agendas. In a video posted online in June, the academic argued that terms such as "house N***o", "Uncle Tom", "coconut" and "c**n" are "vital expressions of Black political thought that should be celebrated and not policed".

However, the academic's description of Mr Robinson prompted the right-wing commentator to complain to West Midlands Police, as first reported by The Independent last month. The day after Prof Andrew's interview with the police, officers decided that no further action would be taken. "The decision has been made to NFA [no further action] Mr Kehinde Andrews," said police correspondence, seen by The Independent.