whytheracecardisplayed
Feb 13, 20201 min
Updated: Apr 5, 2023
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It’s a universal problem “from the top down”, he tells me. “You’ve got the Prime Minister ... and he’s got a rap sheet as long as this play of historical racist comments.” I wonder how he anticipates the audience will respond, and he talks of the power of storytelling, its ability to make people challenge themselves. “I think you’ve got to be quite courageous to really look at yourself without bias or getting defensive first. This thing about Meghan Markle, or Stormzy saying racism 100 per cent exists, speaks to an idea in this country that’s been perpetrated by the media, that it’s worse to be called racist than it actually is to be a racist.”