Dr Tony Sewell on Fatherlessness, Gangs and Knife Crime

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr Tony Sewell CBE is CEO of the charity Generating Genius and senior research fellow for Demography, Immigration, and Integration at Policy Exchange. In this episode we discuss absent fathers, masculinity, gang culture, white guilt and knife crime. 0:36 Institutional Racism and the Class System 20:02 Gangs, Knives and Why Boys Need Fathers 44:10 White Guilt and Masculinity Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KEB7Z3N52LB5C&source=url Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Hello and this is the show for you.
0:01.0	I'm Francis Foster.
0:05.0	I'm Constantine Kissin.
0:09.0	And this is the show for you.
0:11.0	If you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects
0:13.9	they know nothing about. At trigonometry we don't pretend to be the experts
0:18.0	we ask the experts. Our fantastic expert guest this week is Tony Sol who's the founder of Generating Genius, which is a charity that helps inner city kids get to top universities here in the UK.
0:30.0	Tony, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:31.0	Thanks for having me.
0:32.0	Yeah. It's so good to have you here. And thanks for having me. Yeah.
0:33.0	It's so good to have here.
0:34.0	The question we always like to ask at the beginning is,
0:36.0	how are you where you are, what's been your journey through life?
0:39.0	Well, I suppose, I mean, my journey is an interesting one because it's I think it sort of defines really for me what's happening now and I look back at that past and see a kind of a line going in.
0:54.3	I think the line was always how do I kind of disrupt what is given for me.
1:01.3	So for example, I was given a crap school yeah crap secondary school
1:05.6	where all of us were expected. What happened was quite interesting that the white
1:11.3	kids in the school went and got jobs usually with their uncles or whatever or friends
1:17.4	and they had those connections.
1:19.4	It seems to be that's quite interesting how they got work. The black boys in the school were we had a
1:25.0	harder time. I mean a lot of us were unemployed but and really the way out for
1:31.1	us this is a boy school, was harder. I would admit that. This was back in the
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