 "M and Bond ... offer their views on the ethnicity of crime, views that reflected ignorance, the inherited racialist prejudices of London clubland", according to the cultural historian Jeremy Black.Black also points out that "the frequency of his references and his willingness to offer racial stereotypes [was] typical of many writers of his age".The writer Louise Welsh observes that ""Live and Let Die" taps into the paranoia that some sectors of white society were feeling" as the civil rights movements challenged prejudice and inequality.