3: White Season part 2
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Rich
4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Reni digs deeper into the left behind white working class narrative. Featuring musician Billy Bragg, rapper, poet, activist and author Akala, journalist, author and activist Owen Jones and author and scholar Alana Lentin.
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Some Reference links
Pre-order Akala's book out May 17 Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Alana's Book The Crisis of Multiculturalism: Racism in the Neo-Liberal Age
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | Black lives matter. Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! |
| 0:14.0 | Black Lives Matter! |
| 0:15.0 | I don't call it a thing. |
| 0:18.0 | The whites have become black. If you are inviting in terms of |
| 0:30.4 | If you open your door to uncontrolled immigration from Middle Eastern countries, you are advising in terrorism. |
| 0:35.1 | The British people have voted to leave the European Union |
| 0:38.8 | and their will must be respected. Welcome back to about race with Rennie Edo Lodge. |
| 0:55.0 | In part one of this episode, I went back in time to the turn of the century |
| 1:01.0 | to look at the racial politics of Barking and Dagenham. The London Borough was hit hard by |
| 1:06.4 | de-industrialization in 2002. This alongside significant demographic changes, led to the far right making political gains in 2006. By 2008, the BBC was premiering their white season, looking at the concerns of the forgotten white working class. |
| 1:27.0 | You'll need to have listened to part one in order to understand the full context of what we're talking about today. |
| 1:33.4 | So if you've not heard it yet, please pause this and go back to listen to it. |
| 1:39.2 | One thing really struck me during my conversations in part one. It seems as though, during the mid-2000s, |
| 1:47.1 | politicians and television legitimize the idea of a new oppressed group. The white working classes discrimination seemed to be |
| 1:55.8 | characterized not only by class prejudice but also by their whiteness as though it |
| 2:01.8 | was holding them back in some way. I think that this was a very interesting |
| 2:06.1 | development. After all, Britain is usually wildly uncomfortable with acknowledging race. So, in part two of this episode I want to know |
| 2:16.7 | what is so relevant about the race of white people who are working class. I've enlisted the barking native, musician and activist Billy Braggs help with this unpacking. |
| 2:29.4 | One of the weird things about English is that our racial type actually has a hyphen in it, Anglo-hyphin |
| 2:36.7 | it all kind of squicks together that there's a long history here of people coming together in these islands, |
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