14. Prof. Kehinde Andrews: The British Empire and white supremacy never died
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Britain has never come to terms with its imperial past, and with the crimes of Empire rarely discussed, polls show more people are proud of that era than not. But according to a brilliant new book by leading academic Kehinde Andrews - The New Age of Empire - it's even worse than that: colonialism is still alive, and white supremacy is at its very heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Owen Jones here. Welcome to the podcast. Now, the Empire. When people think |
| 0:12.3 | about the British Empire, they think it was something that belongs very much to the past. |
| 0:18.0 | The polling disconcertingly for people like me to say the least shows that lots of people |
| 0:22.7 | have positive impressions of the Empire. They think it was a force to good. Now today |
| 0:28.1 | I'm speaking to Professor Gehindi Andrews. He is an academic. He's often on our TV screen, |
| 0:33.5 | too, you may well have seen him. And he's just written a new book, which is out, which I |
| 0:37.1 | thoroughly recommend everybody buys called the New Age of Empire, how racism and colonialism |
| 0:42.8 | still rule the world. And it does show partly, of course, the real horrors of Empire that people |
| 0:48.9 | need to know about. So that's one reason I recommend because we haven't had a national |
| 0:54.2 | reckoning over Empire, but it also shows why the Empire is still a thing in new forms, |
| 1:00.0 | why colonisation has not died. And I think a lot of people will find that provocative, but |
| 1:05.4 | it's something people need to listen to and to learn from. So this is a super important |
| 1:09.8 | discussion. Now this new podcast is about offering an alternative to the right media, |
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| 1:44.7 | helps get the word out. Also, please subscribe and spread the message. After all of that, please |
| 1:50.5 | listen to this chat with Gehindi Andrews. It's really important. We need to know our history |
| 1:56.2 | and we need to understand our present. |
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