Originally posted by Guy At Charnock Richard
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Well, as it happens we will be having our annual Saturday night picnic up on Maesbury Fort where there is a great view of the lights of the festival. There will be 5 of us including my Jamaican friend Denis & this particular Glasto gathering will be 20% BAME so stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr Henry.
Did used to like you on TISWAS though. KATANGA!!Last edited by Guy At Charnock Richard; 14 June 2022, 18:23.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI was wondering if it's as simple as Lenny doesn't realise the diversity of the UK population is much lower than he experiences in his city/London-centric life (I know he lives/lived in Cornwall). ONS says the UK is 85% white and yet major cities like London and Birmingham (where he's from) are notably very different. If Glasto mirrors the UK average, only 1 in 20 people there are black (fewer than I thought) which would certainly make it look a very white crowd.
When I visit London I am struck similarly "nobody is white" which clearly isn't true, simply because there are so many more black people than I see normally, which seems like it's just the flip-side of the same coin.
If he wants proportional representation at everything then everything on TV is going to be suddenly become majorly white again and he won't like that at all.
Really poor effort from a man that's been pretty solid for many years.
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
That's racist.
And where are our BAME smilies. I've set my phone to use brown to demonstrate my woke credentials.
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BAME people have more sense than to go to stupid festivals
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I was wondering if it's as simple as Lenny doesn't realise the diversity of the UK population is much lower than he experiences in his city/London-centric life (I know he lives/lived in Cornwall). ONS says the UK is 85% white and yet major cities like London and Birmingham (where he's from) are notably very different. If Glasto mirrors the UK average, only 1 in 20 people there are black (fewer than I thought) which would certainly make it look a very white crowd.
When I visit London I am struck similarly "nobody is white" which clearly isn't true, simply because there are so many more black people than I see normally, which seems like it's just the flip-side of the same coin.
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Hideously white Glastobury
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...astonbury.html
'It's interesting to look at the audience and not see any black people there': Sir Lenny Henry questions lack of diversity at Glastonbury and says he is 'always surprised' to see so few black and Asian faces in festival crowds- British comic Sir Lenny Henry has questioned the lack of diversity in audiences at British festivals
- He singled out Glastonbury, saying he is 'interested' by the absence of BAME faces in the crowd
- Sir Lenny shot to fame as the first black performer on the controversial Black And White Minstrel Show
- It comes after Glastonbury organisers called Stormzy's 2019 headline performance 'a little bit late maybe'
And in 2008, Glastonbury organisers were forced to defend their choice of rapper Jay-Z to headline that year's event after claims it had upset traditional rock fans and led to poor ticket sales.
Eavis said the festival had to move with the times and she blamed an 'innate conservatism' in Britain for the negative reaction in some quarters.
She said the row over her choice of a black American rapper rather than a rock band like Radiohead had raised uncomfortable questions over British attitudes to race and class.
so are festivals a bastion of white privilege, don't find acts that appeal or just not something people want to buy tickets for?
Actually I think a MOBO festival would be popular - oh look it is
https://www.visitcoventry.co.uk/news...ration-of-mobo
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