- Trevor Mcdonald isn’t thought of as a ‘black’ newsreader, he is ‘the’ newsreader, shows how we’ve moved on in this country
- 1948 Britain, exclusively white, costs and after effects of WW2, on verge of losing its empire
- “Rooms for rent, no niggers need apply”, black people felt they were ‘intruders’, ‘truly a foreigner’, ‘did not belong’.
- Black people believe when they came over here they brought music, colour, life and ‘dope’
- They were like a ‘powder keg’ – you can suppress people for so long but eventually it will bang
- Black population has become British population
- ‘The king was their king’ ‘The flag was their flag’
- Fought for Britain and died for what they believed was their country too. They fought against Hitler as he thought Black people were undeveloped and inferior to white people – so then after the war they had to put up with Britons thinking the exact same thing.
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