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About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

1: Things Can Only Get Better

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Rich

History, News, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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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Fully-linked transcript and episode can be found at AboutRacePodcast.com

Some reference links below.

Operation Black Vote

Jon Daniel Obituary and OBV Posters

Desmonds Watch Online (UK only)

The Bandung File

Goodness Gracious Me

BBC White Season Trailer

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Host Reni @ReniReni

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Artwork/Images Kevin @KevinMorosky

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Transcript

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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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