I was a white teenager in Sheffield when I heard about Little Rock Arkensa and disturbed. I've been interested in Black History ever since. I had no idea I was growing up with hidden British Black History, though not surprised. THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR CHANGING ALL THAT.
@Lee Revealing hidden History requires a willingness to look at facts that have been repressed . 'The Lions story can never be told while the Hunter gets to tell it ' It's time to open our minds . Good judgement requires an open mind .
If anyone can articulate the marginalisation and racism in all it's forms, it is David Olusoga. I feel honoured to have read and seen this virtual lecture.
Please do not leave this industry. You are a valuable person. A spokesman for racism. You are a powerful professional speaker - We need you and your intelligence. Keep up the good fight. I am a white person loving your work, observations and speeches.
I’ve never been so bloody inspired. I’m Currently writing an report listing the issues spoken within this lecture. I’m a media student who hasn’t even got close to the Industry and it sickens me that these issues are still carried out this day. David is completely correct when he says our generation are not afraid to speak about these issues and are sickened by the racism that is still happening.
An incredible lecture by David. I hung on every word. So many of us in the industry have stories like the numerous recounted here. I hope for future generations that we change these narratives.
You're lucky white people aren't racist. Although if keep carrying on the way you all are doing, we will be forced to become racist just to survive. Then you really will have something to yap about.
A to the point address speaking truth to power. Thank you David. I broke down and cried, while listening to David Olugusa Mctaggart address. I experienced the racism. marginalisation at the hands of the the BBC. I was chastised for stating when I wanted to be writer and produce productions.,when asked about my future aspirations, I was 21 and no one nurtured me. I can't repeat what was said to me suffice to say. They considered my answer a joke and I was not good enough. I can cry because I am strong, crying made me feel cleansed. I know now that it wasn't me. have not given up and hope that the industry will embrace my story telling. If I was good enough to beat 20,000 people in the selection process and two rounds of board interview's with a back ground in theatre from age 16, why after my BBC top of the range training which I passed with flying colours was I and many of the Bame communities not given the same respect choices and guidance, career planning the BBC gave my white colleagues?
@@icdgyixify I've never had the pleasure, personally. My privilege doesn't quite stretch that far. I did go to Blackpool recently, however, and I couldn't recommend it less! And I was born there!😁 My original comment was to the bloke above, mate. I agree.👍
What David discusses at the 38:00 is spot on - in this year of BLM I have had to lose people who have suddenly seen me as a problem because I began to discus matters of race. A black female friend was attacked and slapped by her white partner. This happened after an argument because she wanted to watch a program on TV about the BLM movement (a certain sad irony). Similar to what David says, it has been bought home to me in no uncertain terms....that we as black people are ok as long as we are entertaining, singing, playing sport, or just keeping quiet. However as a black person, don’t dare begin to step out of line and say that there might be a problem with the way we sometimes get treated.......they are basically saying, if you want everything to be fine, know your place and stay firmly in it.
"If true diversity is our aim the mechanism to achieve it is proactive inclusion which entails not only bringing black people into the industry but also recognising the ways in which the internal cultures of that industry can exclude, marginalise and damage them. When we identify structural inequality, we need to make structural change. Not merely seek to bring a new generation of pocs into a system that has historically failed them." YES!
A fantastic lecture. Every word stuck a cord. May I also say from experience that the issue is apparent in other industries. I can say from experience that the same applies to the social housing market.
Great talk, really impressive and good to have mentioned the issues of class and privilege which also come into this horrible mix. Iam so impressed by your work David and listened to your interview this morning on the radio. We all need to do something about the myriad of inequalities in this country.
I am not sure if other people have mentioned this but the closed captions on the video are completely out of synch. It's a real shame because this is such an important and interesting lecture, yet people who are deaf might miss out. Thank you for putting this up for free though 😃
It's an incredibly clever and powerful speech which exposes all the facets of the discrimination people of BAME origin endured in the past and endure still in our modern era in Britain. Each one of David Olusoga's sentences carries weight. Though from France, and in Britain only for 4 years, I came to know him through his outstanding documentaries. It's a very important speech that to my mind reflects perfectly the situation in France too. In the broadcasting industry but also in the larger society.
Until we have those who are lucky in their position, to recognise the suffering of those different to themselves, I see little hope. When we stand together, we won't need to have a woman telling us about how her care work is undervalued, or a black man explaining how oppression based upon the colour of your skin is still an issue in 2020. I thank the bravery of the speaker, he is taking a far bigger risk than is a room of white senior TV execs acknowledging the possibility of their unconscious biases.
Listening to this talk today mirrored profoundly my experiences working in the Television industry, until I indeed got worn down despite succeeding in getting 2 commissions, I was still treated like a second class citizen and ignored on a creative basis by those who supposedly mattered. I take my hat off to David in sticking it out.
Thank-you, David. So many home truths, so much bravery in telling us the impact the industry has had on you. I am one of those thousands who left it having been worn down. I hope and pray that the industry does have the will you speak of.
This was just brilliant, Professor, as usually your discourses are, but very different in being that personal! I’m so sorry for the dark times you lived... Your profound knowledge and firmly grounded insights in the functioning of imperial power are powerful revelations that revolutionise former teachings and , at last, so much becomes clear: fascinating! Please keep up the great work. Many are enthusiastic like me!
Thank you David. It is disheartening to hear that the issues which you have highlighted are mirrored accross all sectors within the UK. I hope that your voice and work in this area, together with the efforts of countless others, will start to change the dial in the right direction and shape a better society for the next generation.
Thank you David. I don’t work in tv but there were messages in there that apply way beyond that world. It helped me understand complicity for a start. Would media types call a TH-cam video ‘public sector broadcasting ‘? Who knows, but this video had the power to inform and educate in exactly the way David described PBS informed and educated him.
I get premoderated on all my comments now on the Guardian now, just because I questioned David. I'm working class, and all my ancestors I know of were working class. My Great Grandad fought through the WW1, and became a Communist, because of the horrors he had seen, and how the Officers had been preserved, and the commoners left to die. My Grandad fought for six years against the Nazis in the RAF, hated the Nazis and Communists, but was a lifelong Socialist. I'm sure both of them believed heart and soul in equality of race class and gender, but both would have been as equally unimpressed by David as I am, because David has such a narrow, uninformed racial view.
David's work has really helped me this year. Definitely from a personal perspective researching family history and also understanding more about British history. Great bloke
So the first thing to say or do is to answer David's question.................is the establishment ready to share power and the answer is clearly NO. NO. NO. Why should they? So that question is a waste of time. So this is like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Company. The bus company only changed its policy when enough black people boycotted the buses for long enough to wreck the economic of their business. And so they changed.
Tragic for all of us that this moving and thought provoking lecture was needed. Thank you David for this shift of focus which has made me so much more aware.
What a brilliant man David Olusaga is 👏 so Articulate, spot on with history of black people and slavery.. You make us so proud not only to black people but to the minority and brown people.
Same with Film. Demons like Paul Trijbits, Robin Gutch, Himesh Kar who have blocked UK Talent for decades. Case in point. Newton Aduaka moved to Paris because the French gave more opportunities than the British. Then went onto win Fespaco with Ezra.
As a normal white working class lad who's hereos included Muhammad Ali Richard Pryor and too many people of colour in music to mention , how dare you call me and my society complicit through silence on your agenda . You never mention the great and the good of White British people just constant focus on you and your negative attitude. Infact that's all you ever bang on about in lectures . I'm calling you out !
What drives his so called historian who continues to make disparaging remarks of his host country while neglecting injustices elsewhere, vitriol ,hate?? It's a forgotten history because no one is interested.
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the British done for us?
I always said we should put up monuments to celebrate what inventors have done for us to celebrate the improvements in our lives, but sadly we do not value such individuals, instead we put up statues of slave owners, what message does that give out and who we value?
Utterly depressing rant from someone whose own persona seems to get more bafflingly troubled by the day. Not so much 'difficult' as just plain wrong. David Olusoga is a scholar of history, yet recently he entirely ignored the context of a brilliant jibe against some visiting British politician's gladhanding condescension towards african people to label its author, Boris Johnson, as racist. And how can we possibly know if his stricture of the use a racial slur-word was justified when he provided us only his own maddeningly hushed, trust me I couldn't believe my ears, tone. overall I felt, not so much that we heard the voice of black experience as that of someone playing at Martian.
Seriously, just how dumb are you? When so many people of colour are saying the same thing what actually goes through your mind. Do you think they are all liars or does dismissing their experiences, as nothing of value come easily to you? Your tone and approach is that of an ignorant racist. But I guess you already knew that. Was your comment a beckon call to your fellow racists, a defence of the status quo ?🤔 Until you realise that the paradigm you defend is set up to protect racism you will always be on edge. The truth will out. Always. 😉
@@JAde-tm1yb Indeed the truth does always out = A shockingly mischievous and inaccurate book by author and broadcaster David Olusoga th-cam.com/video/TuCi5dG6vhw/w-d-xo.html But never does truth come from narcissists or their the pathological levels of misinformation. Perhaps a partial cure to 'depression' could be cured by learning integrity and bringing accuracy in authoring rather than spreading false narratives, race bating and perpetrating lies about historical events
I was a white teenager in Sheffield when I heard about Little Rock Arkensa and disturbed. I've been interested in Black History ever since. I had no idea I was growing up with hidden British Black History, though not surprised. THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR CHANGING ALL THAT.
Because what he says is bullshit he's just rewriting British history if you look into his claims you'll find they are made up total fraud
@Lee Revealing hidden History requires a willingness to look at facts that have been repressed .
'The Lions story can never be told while the Hunter gets to tell it '
It's time to open our minds . Good judgement requires an open mind .
If anyone can articulate the marginalisation and racism in all it's forms, it is David Olusoga. I feel honoured to have read and seen this virtual lecture.
Please do not leave this industry. You are a valuable person. A spokesman for racism. You are a powerful professional speaker - We need you and your intelligence. Keep up the good fight. I am a white person loving your work, observations and speeches.
The slave ship lunch story made me cry, it's just inexcusable for people to endure that kind of racism. I am so glad David gave this speech.
I’ve never been so bloody inspired. I’m Currently writing an report listing the issues spoken within this lecture. I’m a media student who hasn’t even got close to the Industry and it sickens me that these issues are still carried out this day.
David is completely correct when he says our generation are not afraid to speak about these issues and are sickened by the racism that is still happening.
An incredible lecture by David. I hung on every word.
So many of us in the industry have stories like the numerous recounted here.
I hope for future generations that we change these narratives.
You're lucky white people aren't racist. Although if keep carrying on the way you all are doing, we will be forced to become racist just to survive.
Then you really will have something to yap about.
A to the point address speaking truth to power. Thank you David. I broke down and cried, while listening to David Olugusa Mctaggart address. I experienced the racism. marginalisation at the hands of the the BBC. I was chastised for stating when I wanted to be writer and produce productions.,when asked about my future aspirations, I was 21 and no one nurtured me. I can't repeat what was said to me suffice to say. They considered my answer a joke and I was not good enough. I can cry because I am strong, crying made me feel cleansed. I know now that it wasn't me. have not given up and hope that the industry will embrace my story telling. If I was good enough to beat 20,000 people in the selection process and two rounds of board interview's with a back ground in theatre from age 16, why after my BBC top of the range training which I passed with flying colours was I and many of the Bame communities not given the same respect choices and guidance, career planning the BBC gave my white colleagues?
Maybe you just weren't good enough. End of story.
ignore the wanker above me. chase those dreams, mate. more power to you ✊
Insightful, pertinent and incisive. A lesson all media leaders should observe and action.
Marsha Ramroop after all the speeches by Idris Elba, Riz Ahmed and this one from Professor Olusoga, the question is will the media leaders listen???
Silence, inaction or ineffective action is not neutrality - it is complicity. THIS.
Abolition of slavery was none of those things. Was it?
No way. I'm not complicit because I'm not on your side. Last person to say that was George W Bush, and his "Axis of Evil." Nice company, you're in.
@@robertwright7937 Ghana is nice!
@@icdgyixify I've never had the pleasure, personally. My privilege doesn't quite stretch that far. I did go to Blackpool recently, however, and I couldn't recommend it less! And I was born there!😁
My original comment was to the bloke above, mate. I agree.👍
@@robertwright7937 Blackpool? I am sooooo sorry.
A great moment to see David articulate these values and demand change so movingly.
What David discusses at the 38:00 is spot on - in this year of BLM I have had to lose people who have suddenly seen me as a problem because I began to discus matters of race. A black female friend was attacked and slapped by her white partner. This happened after an argument because she wanted to watch a program on TV about the BLM movement (a certain sad irony). Similar to what David says, it has been bought home to me in no uncertain terms....that we as black people are ok as long as we are entertaining, singing, playing sport, or just keeping quiet. However as a black person, don’t dare begin to step out of line and say that there might be a problem with the way we sometimes get treated.......they are basically saying, if you want everything to be fine, know your place and stay firmly in it.
"If true diversity is our aim the mechanism to achieve it is proactive inclusion which entails not only bringing black people into the industry but also recognising the ways in which the internal cultures of that industry can exclude, marginalise and damage them. When we identify structural inequality, we need to make structural change. Not merely seek to bring a new generation of pocs into a system that has historically failed them."
YES!
A fantastic lecture. Every word stuck a cord. May I also say from experience that the issue is apparent in other industries. I can say from experience that the same applies to the social housing market.
I've experienced it there too.
This is very ep0c, thank you L0rrence
Yes
Great talk, really impressive and good to have mentioned the issues of class and privilege which also come into this horrible mix. Iam so impressed by your work David and listened to your interview this morning on the radio. We all need to do something about the myriad of inequalities in this country.
It was specifically aimed. Maybe that's why?
There is not one word I didn't agree with in this lecture. Everything he said I have experienced in this industry. Incredible lecture.
I am not sure if other people have mentioned this but the closed captions on the video are completely out of synch. It's a real shame because this is such an important and interesting lecture, yet people who are deaf might miss out. Thank you for putting this up for free though 😃
It's an incredibly clever and powerful speech which exposes all the facets of the discrimination people of BAME origin endured in the past and endure still in our modern era in Britain. Each one of David Olusoga's sentences carries weight. Though from France, and in Britain only for 4 years, I came to know him through his outstanding documentaries. It's a very important speech that to my mind reflects perfectly the situation in France too. In the broadcasting industry but also in the larger society.
Until we have those who are lucky in their position, to recognise the suffering of those different to themselves, I see little hope. When we stand together, we won't need to have a woman telling us about how her care work is undervalued, or a black man explaining how oppression based upon the colour of your skin is still an issue in 2020. I thank the bravery of the speaker, he is taking a far bigger risk than is a room of white senior TV execs acknowledging the possibility of their unconscious biases.
Thank you professor Olusoga, an excellent lecture providing a much needed and valuable contribution to our industry.
Thankyou
Listening to this talk today mirrored profoundly my experiences working in the Television industry, until I indeed got worn down despite succeeding in getting 2 commissions, I was still treated like a second class citizen and ignored on a creative basis by those who supposedly mattered. I take my hat off to David in sticking it out.
Thank-you, David. So many home truths, so much bravery in telling us the impact the industry has had on you. I am one of those thousands who left it having been worn down. I hope and pray that the industry does have the will you speak of.
A very honest account that was both empowering and heartbreaking on so many levels. The go along to get along attitude benefits only one side.
This was just brilliant, Professor, as usually your discourses are, but very different in being that personal! I’m so sorry for the dark times you lived... Your profound knowledge and firmly grounded insights in the functioning of imperial power are powerful revelations that revolutionise former teachings and , at last, so much becomes clear: fascinating! Please keep up the great work. Many are enthusiastic like me!
What an excellent speech
Amazing - the truth spoken - lets hope this is the moment that 'Hope & History Rhyme' for all - BLM feels different this time.....
Opinion spoken?
Absolutely brilliant, so humble and honest.
Thank you David. It is disheartening to hear that the issues which you have highlighted are mirrored accross all sectors within the UK. I hope that your voice and work in this area, together with the efforts of countless others, will start to change the dial in the right direction and shape a better society for the next generation.
Thank you, Professor Olusoga! Very powerful and passionate speech!
Thank you David. I don’t work in tv but there were messages in there that apply way beyond that world. It helped me understand complicity for a start. Would media types call a TH-cam video ‘public sector broadcasting ‘? Who knows, but this video had the power to inform and educate in exactly the way David described PBS informed and educated him.
Incredible!
With nearly 20 years in the industry and some modecom of success, I nonetheless agree and identify with everything David says in this lecture
Fabulous, informative, passionate speech David. Well done. Thank you for speaking about these issues so exquisitely for us all.
Powerful and moving speech. Thank you.
I get premoderated on all my comments now on the Guardian now, just because I questioned David. I'm working class, and all my ancestors I know of were working class. My Great Grandad fought through the WW1, and became a Communist, because of the horrors he had seen, and how the Officers had been preserved, and the commoners left to die. My Grandad fought for six years against the Nazis in the RAF, hated the Nazis and Communists, but was a lifelong Socialist. I'm sure both of them believed heart and soul in equality of race class and gender, but both would have been as equally unimpressed by David as I am, because David has such a narrow, uninformed racial view.
David's work has really helped me this year. Definitely from a personal perspective researching family history and also understanding more about British history. Great bloke
So the first thing to say or do is to answer David's question.................is the establishment ready to share power and the answer is clearly NO. NO. NO. Why should they? So that question is a waste of time. So this is like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Company. The bus company only changed its policy when enough black people boycotted the buses for long enough to wreck the economic of their business. And so they changed.
Tragic for all of us that this moving and thought provoking lecture was needed. Thank you David for this shift of focus which has made me so much more aware.
Perfectly and beautifully put. Thank you David.
Powerful and emotional
Excellent, long overdue, let's see if there is any tangible, positive response.
What a brilliant and enlightening speech.
Succinct, articulate and stirring-as always!
Thank you.
👏🏽👏🏻👏🏽 Great lecture David Olusoga. 100%.
25kg bag of chips on both shoulders.
What a brilliant man David Olusaga is 👏 so Articulate, spot on with history of black people and slavery.. You make us so proud not only to black people but to the minority and brown people.
Same with Film. Demons like Paul Trijbits, Robin Gutch, Himesh Kar who have blocked UK Talent for decades. Case in point. Newton Aduaka moved to Paris because the French gave more opportunities than the British. Then went onto win Fespaco with Ezra.
Just wow!
God bless you
David
As a normal white working class lad who's hereos included Muhammad Ali Richard Pryor and too many people of colour in music to mention , how dare you call me and my society complicit through silence on your agenda . You never mention the great and the good of White British people just constant focus on you and your negative attitude. Infact that's all you ever bang on about in lectures . I'm calling you out !
What drives his so called historian who continues to make disparaging remarks
of his host country while neglecting injustices elsewhere, vitriol ,hate??
It's a forgotten history because no one
is interested.
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the British done for us?
Aqueducts?
I always said we should put up monuments to celebrate what inventors have done for us to celebrate the improvements in our lives, but sadly we do not value such individuals, instead we put up statues of slave owners, what message does that give out and who we value?
@@johnson2joy How many slaves did Colston "own" - none. UK was the first country to outlaw slavery. Surely you have some pride in that?
@@icdgyixify but still wanted to keep slaves in its "colonies" though right? And have pride in using tax payers money to settle the "debt" to owners?
@@amsolarin The British government freed thousands of slaves. Time to stop being victims, yet?
Thank you for such extreme leftist behaviour pushing people to the right! We couldn't do it without you!
Utterly depressing rant from someone whose own persona seems to get more bafflingly troubled by the day. Not so much 'difficult' as just plain wrong. David Olusoga is a scholar of history, yet recently he entirely ignored the context of a brilliant jibe against some visiting British politician's gladhanding condescension towards african people to label its author, Boris Johnson, as racist. And how can we possibly know if his stricture of the use a racial slur-word was justified when he provided us only his own maddeningly hushed, trust me I couldn't believe my ears, tone. overall I felt, not so much that we heard the voice of black experience as that of someone playing at Martian.
Seriously, just how dumb are you? When so many people of colour are saying the same thing what actually goes through your mind. Do you think they are all liars or does dismissing their experiences, as nothing of value come easily to you? Your tone and approach is that of an ignorant racist. But I guess you already knew that. Was your comment a beckon call to your fellow racists, a defence of the status quo ?🤔
Until you realise that the paradigm you defend is set up to protect racism you will always be on edge. The truth will out. Always. 😉
@@JAde-tm1yb Indeed the truth does always out = A shockingly mischievous and inaccurate book by author and broadcaster David Olusoga
th-cam.com/video/TuCi5dG6vhw/w-d-xo.html
But never does truth come from narcissists or their the pathological levels of misinformation.
Perhaps a partial cure to 'depression' could be cured by learning integrity and bringing accuracy in authoring rather than spreading false narratives, race bating and perpetrating lies about historical events
@@HeLpLOstGOdAny1 You're clearly a moron 😖 painful
He has a very fertile imagination, black history month? 10 seconds should cover all of it.
This guy deserves every ounce of respect we put on his name, this speech blew me away 👏🏾