In this country in 15 or 20 years time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter.

I don't call it Brating.

I call it an insurrection.

The whites have become black. If you're open your door to uncontrolled immigration from Middle Eastern countries, you were inviting in terrorism.

The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected. This is not a racial problem.

This is not a racial problem.

All we say is that we've got enough immigrants into the country and that no more should be allowed in.

Welcome to About Race with Rennie Edo Lodge.

In the last episode, we heard how Britain in the 90s seemed to be on the brink of post-racism.

In this episode, we'll look at the local and national backlash that took place over the next 10 years.

2006 was a very interesting time for UK politics.

In a shock win, the British National Party won 12 council seats in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

This made them the second biggest political party behind Labour on the council.

The BBC's White season aired just two years later. The musician

and political activist Billy Bragg grew up in the borough. I don't know if you

remember but the trailer that they used in which there was an image of a

white man whose face was being scribbled out with a black marker pen until it

disappeared was your song Jerusalem. Oh my version of Jerusalem. Yeah, yeah. And I just wondered if you knew about that.

I do now I do remember it now. Yeah. Yeah. Now you mentioned that. Well the way people

use your music, you know, you don't always have absolute control how people

are going to use that. But again, you know, Jerusalem is a kind of strange song in that sense,

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