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🗓️ 18 April 2018
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Who is Reni Eddo-Lodge? Comedian, actor and presenter Nish Kumar helps us find out.
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0:00.0 | When I first started writing my book I was very adamant that the lens I was using to look at the world should be pointing outwards, not inwards. |
0:08.5 | I had become fatigued by first-person confessional journalism, almost always from women, that delved into the secrets of our lives |
0:16.5 | in order to politically interpret the world around us. White men never have to do this. |
0:32.0 | I felt quite strongly that I should be taken as seriously as the middle-aged white guy writer who gets to be objective without ever having to speak about his personal life. But in this episode I've decided to flip-flop on what I once |
0:36.2 | believed for two key reasons. The first being once the book came out I realize people wanted to know. They wanted to know who I was, |
0:46.8 | where exactly I had come from, and how on earth a book like this one made it to publication. |
0:53.4 | The second reason is more simple. |
0:55.2 | My producer said I should do it. |
0:57.1 | So this week I will be in the hot seat. |
1:00.1 | And I've enlisted the help of the comedian Nishkuma who will be our dirt digger in chief. |
1:05.1 | In this country, in 15 or 20 years time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. The whites have become black. |
1:14.0 | The whites matter. |
1:15.0 | Black lives matter. |
1:16.0 | Black lives matter. |
1:18.0 | Black lives matter. |
1:20.0 | I don't call it bratting, I call it an insurrection. |
1:23.0 | The whites have become black. |
1:25.0 | If you open your door to to uncontrolled immigration from Middle Eastern countries, you are advising |
1:36.7 | in terrorism. |
1:40.1 | The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected. Welcome to About Race with Rennie Edo Lodge. |
2:00.0 | So what do you describe your job as? |
2:02.0 | Author. And do you consider your job as? Author? |
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