Racism in the army: the soldier who took the UK military to court
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. racism in the British Army. |
| 0:30.0 | Dear Job hunters, on behalf of Guardian Jobs, I'd like to apologize for the amount of tabs you're about to open. Your browser's about to get busy. We have lots of quality jobs, including roles in education, charity, green and government. So as your browsing guardian jobs, you might think it's a fluke that the first job you click ticks all your boxes. |
| 0:35.5 | But soon you'll be 63 tabs deep, watching the sun come up and realizing you need to start your actual job in an hour. Search Guardian Jobs and find your next role before you can finish closing all those tabs. The army is more advanced than ever, but nothing can do, what a soldier can do. |
| 1:00.0 | This is an advert for the British Army, which you might have seen on TV or at the cinema. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a big budget production because they desperately need more soldiers. |
| 1:13.4 | For every eight people who leave the armed forces |
| 1:17.1 | only five are recruited. |
| 1:18.9 | In 2019 |
| 1:21.2 | Kerrian Knight was one of the faces of the Army's campaign to get a more diverse group of people to sign up. |
| 1:28.0 | They're the generation who've been written off as self-obsessed selfie-taking snowflakes, not exactly soldier material, but the British Army |
| 1:35.8 | says gamers drive and phone zombies focus are exactly what they need. |
| 1:40.6 | She was in her 20s, a confident looking black woman who had already dedicated years to being a soldier. |
| 1:47.0 | She was the perfect fit. |
| 1:52.0 | Me, Me Me Me millennials |
| 1:55.0 | Run the tagline alongside a picture of Kerrianne staring straight down the camera. |
| 2:00.0 | Your army needs you. |
| 2:08.0 | But privately, the Army was failing, carrier, and this summer her career |
| 2:11.0 | ended in a painful employment tribunal. |
| 2:14.0 | From the Guardian, I'm Hannah Moore. |
| 2:17.0 | Today in focus, |
| 2:19.0 | Kerrian's fight against racism in the forces. |
| 2:31.0 | Before we start, I want to let you know that in this episode, we discuss racist and misogynistic abuse in some detail. |
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