"...there wasn’t a single black or brown Briton in the entire film" whines Satnam Virdee (Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and Deputy Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Dynamics of Ethnicity CoDE based at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow).
He is talking about the Ken Loach film The Spirit of 1945 and effectively calling Ken Loach a racist.
Perhaps Professor Virdee could be directed to the many thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of crowd photographs taken in the United Kingdom from the invention of photography up to 1945. He can then show us all the black and brown people he claims were resident in the country. Unless he is claiming that they have all been meticulously scraped off the negatives.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_politics_of_class_and_the_long_shadow_of_racism
He is talking about the Ken Loach film The Spirit of 1945 and effectively calling Ken Loach a racist.
Perhaps Professor Virdee could be directed to the many thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of crowd photographs taken in the United Kingdom from the invention of photography up to 1945. He can then show us all the black and brown people he claims were resident in the country. Unless he is claiming that they have all been meticulously scraped off the negatives.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_politics_of_class_and_the_long_shadow_of_racism
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