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🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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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0:00.0 | 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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