Remi Adekoya on Black Identity Politics, Racism, White Privilege & Populism

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Journalist and researcher Remi Adekoya (@remiadekoya1) discusses his Quillette article (https://quillette.com/2018/07/08/the-fear-of-white-power/), black identity politics, identitarianism, race and racism, reparations, white privilege, right wing populism and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. 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 if you're bored of people arguing on the internet.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry I'm Francis Foster.
0:10.0	I'm Constantine Kitten and this is the show for you.
0:12.5	If you're bored of people arguing on the internet
0:15.0	over subjects they know nothing about.
0:17.5	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.
0:20.4	We ask the experts.
0:21.9	Our fantastic expert guest this week is a journalist and a researcher at Sheffield University
0:26.8	Remy Adekoy. Welcome to Trigonometry. Thanks for coming on. We really look forward to talking to you and before we get into the meat and the substance of what we talk about
0:44.3	Tell us a little bit about how you're here. What's been your background? Just a little bit about that for our viewers so they know who you are.
0:50.6	Well I was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and a Polish mother. I grew up in Nigeria,
0:56.2	went to a primary secondary school in Nigeria, and then after that in the late 90s I moved to Poland which was where my mom was from. I went to
1:06.5	university in Poland first studied law but couldn't find myself as a lawyer and
1:12.1	then later on moved into journalism became a political
1:15.5	journalist in Poland I really enjoyed that but I decided to move to the UK
1:21.8	about three years ago and do a PhD here in politics, in political science.
1:28.0	So that's about it.
1:30.0	And we talked a little bit about what you're researching, you talked about group identity,
1:33.6	which is something we'll touch on, I'm sure.
1:36.1	But tell us a little bit about your political kind of evolution, how you came to have the views that we'll be talking
1:42.1	about a little bit as well.
1:44.3	Which views exactly?
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