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🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Reni Eddo-Lodge looks back to a time some considered post-racial Britain. This episode features Operation Black Vote's Simon Woolley, former television commissioner and activist Farrukh Dhondy and Actress/Writer Meera Syal.
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0:00.0 | In this country, in 15 or 20 years time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. |
0:10.0 | Black lives matter. Black lives matter. |
0:14.0 | Black lives matter. |
0:15.0 | I don't call it granting. |
0:17.0 | I call it an insurrection. |
0:18.0 | The whites have become black. If you're open your door to uncontrolled immigration from Middle Eastern countries, you are inviting in terrorism. |
0:35.1 | The British people have voted to leave the European Union |
0:38.8 | and their will must be respected. This is not a racial problem. |
0:45.0 | This is not a racial problem. |
0:50.0 | All we say is that we've got enough immigrants into the country and that no more should be allowed in. |
0:58.0 | Welcome to About Race with Rennie Edo Lodge. I'm fascinated by the 90s. Now these years covered my childhood decades which means |
1:10.4 | they have a bit of a rose-tinted slant for me. |
1:13.0 | I remember the word multiculturalism used often, |
1:16.0 | with cause for celebration. |
1:18.0 | It gripped both politics and culture. |
1:20.0 | Looking back, I now understand that decade to be a crucial time for Britain's race conversation. |
1:26.0 | There was talk of a forward-thinking, modern Britain, that had ample space for people like me. |
1:32.0 | There was a feeling of real change in the air. |
1:34.7 | In my book, Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race, I wrote a history of |
1:40.1 | Britain and race from slavery onwards, but I stopped my research at the recent past. |
1:46.3 | But we can't understand now without understanding then. |
1:49.8 | It's time to look back. |
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