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About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

4: Political Blackness

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Rich

History, News, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Reni deep dives into what political blackness means to the different generations. Featuring the Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott MP, former TV commissioner and activist Farrukh Dhondy, rapper, poet, author and activist Akala, activists Sisters Uncut and Operation Black Vote's Simon Woolley.

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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 Black lives matter. Black lives matter.

0:14.0

Black lives matter.

0:15.0

I don't call it brighting.

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 advising in terrorism.

0:34.0

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

0:47.0

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.

0:57.0

Welcome back to About Race with Rennie Edo Lodge.

1:03.3

In the last two episodes of this series, I took a deep dive into the politics of whiteness, looking particularly

1:10.2

at how it functioned during key UK elections.

1:14.0

You'll notice in those episodes that I was very careful

1:18.0

not to use the word black to describe people who are not white.

1:22.0

In my work, I use the term people of

1:25.9

color to define anyone of any race that isn't white. And in this episode I want to

1:32.3

dig into the meaning of the word black.

1:35.0

One thing I noticed when I was recording for this podcast

1:39.0

was how many of my interviewees wanted to talk about this idea of political blackness.

1:45.0

Often it came up in our conversations unprompted.

1:49.0

Let me tell you a story.

1:52.0

In 2016, Kent University Student Union ignited Internet Agga after they included the pop star

2:00.7

Zane Mal Malik and the politician

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