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Do You Think That Racial Tensions Are Being

stoked in order to turn ordinary working people against one another football legend, John Barnes, himself a man of color, says that the white working class are being unfairly vilified in order to create division, but what do you think hello There you four and a half million miracles thank you for coming together to watch this video together whoever you are wherever you’re from. However, you identify on my podcast under the skin available from luminary I spoke to John Barnes, the former Watford Liverpool England football superstar. He’s written a new book about race It’s a fantastic book. The link is in the description if you’re interested in reading it and he talks about the complexity of racial politics from an interesting perspective. He says that many white working class people are unfairly condemned and criticized for arguments that really.

Could Be Resolved By Elite Systems Changing Rather

than the conduct of ordinary people changing it’s a very nuanced and complex argument. John Barnes if you’re an American, you will be aware hit the headlines when he stuck up for Liam Neeson after Liam Neeson’s controversial comments should we call them about vengeance and racism that led to Liam Neeson dealing with a lot of public condemnation. John Barnes is a brilliant footballer, but also a brilliant orator with a lot to say on the subject of race, which I think will surprise. You give you a lot to think about whether you’re on the left or the right. I think most of us want to move beyond racism.

I Think Most Of Us Want To

find ways of coming together. John Barnes elsewhere in the conversation talked about his conversation and his reading of excellent black academics like Kahindi. Andrews and his willingness to explore new ideas. I want you to stay to the very end of this video and let me know what you think of it. The book is called uncomfortable truth about racism before you mention race.

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honest but it’s really an intersectional book about discrimination and bias. I’m a light-skinned middle-class Jamaican whose mother’s family started helped to start the first Jamaican government after independence her her grandfather was her father Sorry and around her uncle were imprisoned by the British for sedation against the crown that’s really because they wouldn’t be independent. They didn’t kill anybody but they were talking about independence. Then when The first Jamaican government started they broke away from the Jamaican government to start the first trade unions because they felt that the Jamaican government was too elitist as much as now. It’s a black country with the black government.

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Although The Government Were Going To Be Light

middle skin, probably even white Jamaicans, they saw that they discriminated against the working class the black working class. So they started the trade unions. So I was always brought up um as a from a young um person growing up in Jamaica 13 with lots of politicians and lots of arguments about what’s right for the people as much as my family were an elite political family. They were on the side of the people and always on the side of the working classes. Now this has got nothing to do with race, but everybody is black, but that is how.

The The The I Then Came

to differentiate um between elite non-elite middle class working class and then black and white it’s It’s the same thing. It’s about discrimination against people who you feel superior to so then coming to England and then being the son of a diplomat. My father was a girl in the army. We lived in Highgate. We lived in in Hampstead.

We Lived In Mayfair.

My son my father had a chauffeur so therefore as much as I know the black experience as a young black boy in London with my friends who lived in council houses. I didn’t experience that yeah and then when I became a footballer at 17. I am now once again an elite person. So while there was racist abuse for footballers then and there was no conversation around this is wrong.

There Still Was Some Sympathy For

us. As I’m going down the Hallway road on the on the coach for Watford versus Arsenal and it happened to be Arsenal fans. I’m not saying Arsenal fans are more racist and what for fanta Liverpool fans. This is the way it was and we were being racially abused me and luther on the coach and bananas were being thrown at the coach. But I’m having a glass of wine and eating lobster.

So Therefore How How How How How

am I affected by that what I was affected by was as I looked into the crowd on the Holloway road. I saw average working-class black people carrying in shops hiding around corners so that they don’t get abused and always felt who’s speaking for them. It’s okay speaking for John Barnes and now here. We are 40 years later telling us how how difficult it is for a footballer. earns 200 000 pounds a week.

He Can Go 20 Night Club.

You can go to any restaurant. He could go go to downing street, but because he gets abused on Twitter that a white working-class person whose life doesn’t show him any benefit of his of his wide privilege at all but we’re telling him that his life is better than that black person’s life that black football is life and from a wide privileged perspective. What we have to understand is first of all it exists. However, however, white privilege the the white working class doesn’t benefit from his mind privilege doesn’t benefit from his right public.

He Doesnt See It Because He Cant

get a job can’t get a house um. He lives in a council house. His kids go to a terrible school, so how can we tell he’s privileged what we will say to. him is that anything negative in your life is not it’s not because you’re white now that’s the privilege, but that doesn’t positively affect his life in any way shape or form so how can we explain it to him how we try to explain it to him and say here’s your white privilege Every negative thing you go through here’s a millionaire footballer who’s on 200 grand a week. He go go go to downing street.

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He Can Go To The High Economies Of

society and once a week for every ev every now and again a banana comes on the field. So therefore you are luckier than him. How can he empathize with that what we should do if you want to explain why primarily just say to him. You know everything negative in your life that you go through and you know there are a lot of. negative things, the black working class go through the exact same thing as well as having the added burden of being black Now even if you can’t see the added burden of being black, and he says well they go through what I go through.

Then I Can Empathize With That, But Were

trying to show them elite black people elite women elite gay people, and then say that you know um in terms of sexism or homophobia. You can look at a a a a famous woman and use her as an example of of of sexism where you shouldn’t you should look at the average woman and what she goes through or the average gay person what they go through to then give that example that’s amazing john I mean what I’m thinking when when you’re saying this firstly, I’m but you’ve obviously got I suppose everyone has. a complex set of ident pieces to their identity, but yours is a particularly interesting set when you talk about the intersection of class immigrant status but heart like a kind of a high-level immigrant status because of the diplomatic component and it’s giving immigrants. My dad got posted here for four years and I speak to a lot of black, particularly now Africans because you’ve got a lot of black millionaire Africans understanding their children here and we’re being told because we’re black we all have to feel blackness in the same way that we’re all disenfranchised and we’re all discriminated against and our lives are terrible and that’s not the reality for a lot of us yeah. I feel you and like what I what I get from this is that you’re talking about the complexity and the nuances that are in any any individual’s identity and.

By Highlighting And Promoting At Certain Aspects Of

it or simplifying and reducing identities into patterns and blocks it’s going to create a division and i’m beginning to wonder if that is a deliberate ploy, a deliberate plan to create division to create social division. When when it isn’t when it isn’t necessary now a lot of stuff you’re saying about I completely agree what you’re saying about class because one area of identity that seems to continually be excluded yeah it’s neglected continually like you know just take a recent example in this country or from America the trump situation. People couldn’t vilify white working class people quick enough even identity aware like public opinionators and commentators get in there and tell that Gammon stuff and their England flags outside their houses in Doncaster or Luton or grey‘s where I’m from you know and I think that that creates. more division more opposition and I can’t see how that’s an accident John like you know sort of working working-class people of any color, any religion. Any sexual identity gender identity have got more in common with one another than that absolutely at least absolutely it is it is deliberate it is deliberate because we have told the white working classes.

The Reasons For Your Discontent Are The Immigrants

so therefore in the 70s black people coming to take your jobs taking jobs on the buses and now they’re coming to take your your your benefits and they’re taking your your council houses. What the white working class should say is let them have the shitty benefits and city council houses because we demand for for ourselves, but they don’t they go yeah you’re right instead of demanding more for themselves. They say you’re right they’re they’re now taking our. Shitty benefits such as council houses, so the overt nature of racism is perpetuated by the working classes with their football fans and then what happens is after they created this division by saying because look at look who’s voting tori you know you talk about first of all the the the people who who voted Ukip were labor voters to begin with. Then they voted Ukip now they brought tory, which is which is crazy because they have convinced that they’ve convinced them that the reason for the discontent and the reason for everything negative in their life is for the immigrants.

Then What They Do Is When We

have to then cancel sac come down hard on someone we then use a black elite by creating um these people with an institution so then come up with like like. For example, you got the commission for racial disparity. with Dr Tony Sewell so they use a black man to then come up with with a report as to whether there’s any any any racial bias, then when he then says, there is no racial bias systemic racial bias, what as a black person we can’t complain so that’s what we asked for we offer a black man to put in that position to make the decisions and then he says, but there are racist incidents.

Summary

Football legend John Barnes, himself a man of color, says that the white working class are being unfairly vilified in order to create division, but what do you think? John Barnes is a brilliant footballer, but also a brilliant orator with a lot to say on the subject of race, which I think will surprise. I think most of us want to move beyond racism.& John Barnes elsewhere in the conversation talked about his conversation and his reading of excellent black academics like Kahindi Andrews and his willingness to explore new ideas. He says that many white working-class people are unfairly condemned and criticized for arguments that really. could be resolved by elite systems changing rather than the conduct of ordinary people changing. It’s a very nuanced and complex argument. The book is called uncomfortable truth about racism before you mention race. I want you to stay to the very end of this video and let me know what you think of it.& I think it’s going to sell more than the book….. Click here to read more and watch the full video