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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 147 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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0:00.0 | Okay, James, I need you to do a few more drops than yesterday, I'm afraid. |
0:04.7 | Carl needs to find another driver for his expanding courier business, someone who will really |
0:09.3 | help to lighten the load. Any issues, give me a call. Indeed can help him find great people fast. |
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0:30.0 | Good morning. Three minutes after ten is the time. I hope you're well. I can't be exhausted. |
0:37.6 | I mean, there are two reasons why I can't be exhausted. |
0:40.7 | The one is I cannot feel the psychic toll |
0:43.4 | that seeing your skin colour once again |
0:46.5 | used as a stick with which to beat public figures |
0:50.7 | can apply to me. |
0:52.6 | It can never apply to me. |
0:56.3 | Even if you found somebody who was deploying racist tropes about white-skinned people, such is the privilege and power that |
1:01.0 | white people enjoy in this population at this point in history, that it would never feel |
1:05.9 | discriminatory. You could line up 50 people of color screaming all sorts of abuse about white-skinned people, |
1:11.6 | and it really wouldn't matter in the great scheme of things, |
1:14.7 | because they have no power to hurt me, institutionally, politically, legislatively. |
1:21.6 | It is why the best definition of racism I've come across over the years is prejudice plus power, something that |
1:29.2 | some people work incredibly hard to pretend not to understand. So I can't be exhausted on that |
1:35.8 | level. And the other reason why I can't be exhausted is loyalty. The other reason why I can't be |
1:42.4 | exhausted is loyalty to you. |
1:44.4 | And the knowledge that when you are exhausted, my job, is to remind everybody, whether they're exhausted or not, |
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