Transcript
Hannah McGuire (0:00)
Neighbor game. Oo.
Liberty Mutual Advertiser (Doug) (0:02)
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Hannah McGuire (0:11)
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date?
Liberty Mutual Advertiser (Doug) (0:15)
Oh, no. We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
Hannah McGuire (0:22)
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.
Liberty Mutual Advertiser (Doug) (0:23)
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Hannah McGuire (0:27)
Liberty, Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.
Saruti (0:30)
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Hannah McGuire (0:35)
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Saruti (0:37)
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Hannah McGuire (1:09)
I'm Hannah.
Saruti (1:09)
I'm Saruti.
Hannah McGuire (1:10)
And welcome to our first ever double day drop, Michael X Part 2. Aren't you lucky? Honestly, you have to make it worth it. Please. Because if you want more of these, you have to listen to this one twice each.
Saruti (1:26)
Let's do it. That's how it works. Otherwise we'll never do it again.
Hannah McGuire (1:30)
So. But yesterday we left revolutionary cum con man Michael X as he gave up on black power in the UK and headed to Trinidad where he was born and according to some had learned to hate himself. That's a Malcolm X reference. Like he does that very famous streak like, who taught you to hate yourself? I'm not, you know, calling any of that legitimacy into question, but as we touched on yesterday, there is a bit of a aura vibe around the discussion of Michael X of like, well, of course he turned out the way he did because of the society around him. And I just. No. Anyway, before we join Michael on the island of the Trinity, we're gonna do a little bit more politicking. We couldn't smash it all into yesterday, or quite frankly you would have stopped listening. So we're going to pick up, as we said, although the racial discrimination in the UK was not akin to that in the United States, those who were invited from the colonies after World War II to rebuild blitzed out Britain were treated as second class citizens. And citizen is the key word. They were all British citizens raised in British school systems and told their whole lives that Great Britain was their home. And when they got There they weren't welcome. After the war, black, Asian and Irish people were ghettoized and discriminated against by the government that had invited them. And this is why we've brought this up. During this period of history in this country, the concept of blackness wasn't about your ethnic background necessarily. Blackness was where you stood in the societal pecking order. And you can go to the sources list on our website for lots and lots of essays that explain this much better than I can. But blackness in this period is about where you stand in the societal pecking order. And that's true of both sides of the coin. Tory campaigner Peter Griffiths ran with the slogan if you want an N word for a neighbour, vote Labour, even though his main gripe was with the Sikh community. And South Asians, Africans and Caribbeans were all heaped together in Enoch Powell's famous Rivers of Blood speech, in which he compared the contemporary migration policy to watching a nation busily engaged and heaping up its own funeral pyre. Under threat from Brits and with no protection from police, Commonwealth migrants banded together in solidarity against a ruling class who didn't want them. So in this context and this context only, race was the modality through which class was played out in British society in this moment.
