Do we have a problem with successful black men?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Raheem Sterling spoke out this week against the tabloid press for ‘fuelling racism’ with their coverage of his wealth. He sparked a much wider conversation about how much we really support minority success stories on and off the pitch. Tina Daheley speaks to two people either side of the story, Juventus and former England footballer Eniola Aluko and BBC Sport broadcaster Hugh Woozencroft, about the role of the media and how we frame the conversation around black people who make it.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Cina Dehealy, you're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're asking, do we have a problem with successful black men? |
| 0:27.0 | Before we move on we've got some concerning news to report Chelsea and the Metropolitan Police |
| 0:37.6 | are investigating after an incident of alleged racial abuse during the |
| 0:42.1 | Chelsea... Rahim Sterling hits back. alleged racial abuse during the Chelsea. |
| 0:43.0 | Rahim Sterling hits back at the media for fueling racism as Chelsea and the police |
| 0:48.1 | investigate alleged racist abuse towards the men. |
| 0:50.8 | He said afterwards on social media in a very powerful post the newspapers helped to fuel races |
| 0:56.3 | This reaction was just brilliant and you saw his face and he gave the right response not to react for these people. |
| 1:02.8 | They don't, they don't earn. |
| 1:04.4 | However high reaches, whatever it, they want to drag that back down. |
| 1:08.9 | It's almost like they don't want him to continue to be a success. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, it doesn't surprise me, it's been going on for years and as much as the overt racism in football seemed to have disappeared. |
| 1:17.0 | It is definitely getting worse again. |
| 1:19.0 | We're going backwards and not forwards. |
| 1:21.0 | And I think that is something that we should all be ashamed of. |
| 1:24.0 | It's not just in football unfortunately. |
| 1:27.0 | It was just in football will be safe but the recipes in everywhere. |
| 1:31.0 | All this in response to Rahim Sterling's Instagram post, calling out the tabloids for feuding racism |
| 1:37.8 | with their negative stories about black footballers. |
| 1:40.6 | My first thoughts, this isn't anything new. |
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