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About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

8: The Anti-Racist Renaissance

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Rich

History, News, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Are the tides changing and are we all woke? Featuring actor, rapper, writer and activist Riz Ahmed, award-winning film and television producer Alison Owen, Actress, Writer and Director Meera Syal, former television commissioner and activist Farrukh Dhondy and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.

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There has been somewhat of a revolution on our cultural landscape in recent years.

0:05.0

This has to be symbolised by the fact that in 2017, the Oxus English Dictionary added

0:10.1

the word woke to its pages. Here's that definition of woke courtesy of the OED. It's an adjective

0:18.4

US informal and it means alert to injustice in society, especially racism.

0:27.0

In this country, in 15 or 20 years time,

0:32.0

the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.

0:37.0

Black lives matter.

0:39.0

Black lives matter.

0:41.0

I don't call it a pratting't call it a insurrection.

0:45.0

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

0:57.0

in terrorism.

1:00.0

The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected. This is not a racial problem. All we say is that we've got enough immigrants into the country

1:20.0

and that no more should be allowed in.

1:27.0

Welcome to about race with Rennie Edo Lodge.

1:33.0

I've noticed a cycle to the culture of woke. It pushes the limits and widens the possibilities of our culture

1:37.0

by starting out as widespread criticism

1:40.0

which is then followed up by earnest action.

1:43.5

Some examples, there was hashtag Oscars so white

1:47.2

led by April rain in 2016, which shook up the film industry.

1:52.4

Then in early 2018, we were all struck by the cult of Black Panther,

1:57.0

which quickly became one of the highest earning films of all time.

2:01.0

I have no idea of these two facts are related. In Britain,

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