Britain’s True Colours? | The Big Picture
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- The Big Picture: Britain’s True Colours? addresses a singular question: When it came to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, why did Black and brown people die in disproportionately greater numbers than white people?
The answer, as is revealed, can be traced to two prevailing aspects of the modern UK: racism and neoliberalism. This film examines the roots of these converging forces.
By mixing documentary storytelling with in-depth analysis, three British journalists, writer/director Sanjiev Johal, reporter Flo Phillips, and assistant producer Hanna Adan, allow history to cast new light on the effect of COVID. They show how structural racism, racialised capitalism and neoliberal orthodoxy were not just central to the pandemic experience, but to the shaping of the UK itself.
Charting post-war British history through to the aftermath of the pandemic, this film explains why rampant inequality and racial injustice remains embedded in the UK today.
Contributors:
Kehinde Andrews - Professor of Black studies, Birmingham City University and author of, Resisting Racism
Gargi Bhattacharyya - Research professor, Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London and author of, Rethinking Racial Capitalism
Lee Jones - Professor in international politics, Queen Mary University of London and author of, Societies Under Siege
Meenal Viz - National Health Service (NHS) doctor
The racism pandemic has been around for decades🤦♀️
West Indians make Britain rich and provided a particular culture to parts of the UK esp. England. I will never be ashamed of the Windrush...
Yes they do, a particular culture of gang violence and intimidation in many cases!
Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
This documentary gives me interesting insight into what my parents lived through as immigrants in the UK during the 60s-70s. India was ravaged and bankrupted by the UK. My ancestors were herded onto boats and exported to the rest of the world as part of the indentured labour system that substituted slavery. My father was recruited to come to the UK from then colonised Mauritius to replenish the dwindling supply of nurses and he gave 46 years of his life to the NHS. Anyone who denies the immigrant story and says that people of colour are "stealing their jobs and should go back to where they come from", is truly ignorant.
And they’re still in Britain?,theres a lot of non racist people unlike this reporting mentions,
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The indigenous British people don't have any control over the global cabal that operates within its borders, but you blame them all the same. You have colonized the UK yourself, and have always supported your own colonisation of Europe. You are some of the most self unaware hypocrites on the planet.
Well it's Britain after all
Shame on us for not standing up for ourselves against those responsible and selfish
Well researched documentary. Wonderful job team Al Jazeera 👍🏼👏🏼
@Horse Steak Excess death rates affect minorities more as traditionally they are often marginalised by society and so any drop in income is felt more by minorities. Look at the high infant mortality rates of minorities, then guess what effect cuts to the NHS have on those figures. It's like saying everyone is affected equally by Covid, but statistically the disabled, vulnerable and poor take the brunt of mortality rates. Austerity caused 120,000 excess deaths at the same time the most wealthy 1,000 families in Britain doubled their assets. The massive borrowing is mismanaged via cronyism and corruption while most of the money is given to third parties via outsourcing, privatisation, subsidies, corporate welfare. Tories are stealing taxpayers money and it ends up in the off-shore bank accounts of shareholders. As for fiscal policy, the tories are responsible for the creation of over 2/3rds of our National Debt, a debt to GDP ratio of around 100% and the worst damage to our economy via Brexit. Not sure if you've noticed but the UK is the largest enabler of corporate tax losses globally. Tories are fiscally irresponsible, inept and corrupt. Neoliberalism has spiralled debt via its cornerstone policy of privatisation which leads to bailouts, corporate welfare and subsidies. Corporate welfare and Subsidies cost the UK taxpayer over £100 billion a year, which is around 66 times the amount unemployment costs the taxpayer (£1.52 billion in 2019)...
As a child immigrant of colour from the commonwealth I understand this well researched piece. I know I was the ‘token’ person of colour able to reach professional status in the NHS trained in the U.K. During the Thatcher rule, I was well aware of the privatisation of the NHS. Now in my seventies, I still meet people who assume, because of my colour, I get government ‘hand -outs’ as a pensioner, when I survive on my hard earned pension, without ‘benefits’ . There are many others who worked at their crafts, professions and jobs affected by the Thatcher government who suffered to the benefit of this tiered system. Sadly, very few understand the initial cause of the situation everyone is in today. Capitalism is driving force behind the destruction of equality & the humanitarian way of life sought by all.
Yes I only had to watch 5 seconds before their usual racist "white people bad' drivel started. Brilliant job.
@@steveparker8065 I realize it won't fit into your blame white people for everything narrative, but have you stopped to consider that covid is linked to vitamin D and that the indigenous British population have physical biological adaptations that immigrant groups don't have to living in a country with low sunlight?
@Horse Steak Neoliberalism is the child of Thatcher and Reagan both conservatives, it has nothing to do with a liberal traditional laissez-faire attitude and was never meant to be. It's about control. Neoliberalism is a small government to enable more taxpayer money to be transmuted by privatisation from the public sector into the off-shore bank accounts of the wealthy. Neoliberalism has dominated US and UK policy for four decades and many other countries have followed suit. It is a right-wing Conservative ideology. Don't be fooled by the name. As you aren't British you may not be aware of the massive cost of privatisation of our Water, Energy, Prisons, Public Services, Banking sector, Public Transport paid for by the taxpayer.
Your comment doesn't address the issue and while I'd love to explain the con of Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency, that isn't really the point. However imagine being so rich that you need to increase the mass of money, how would you do it? well, with debt. Global debts are over $289 trillion, which is over 3 and a half times global GDP.
"coloured" isn't the right term, I haven't seen many blue, green or red human beings and you seem blissfully unaware that the west has been run by right-wing Neoliberalism for over 4 decades. We are witnessing the effects of Neoliberalism, and yes the costs and debts hit the poor hardest, especially minorities as I've already explained.
Great program, puts the facts of our national problem and those responsible
Fascinating documentary. You can see how many of today's problems have roots that are decades old. Problems have become structural/institutional and there's no sign of this ending under the current government.
As a Brit, I know we need to make big changes to solve the huge problems of our time.
Cutting immigration back in the 60s would have solved most of them
Which structure specifically?
This is a triumph, well structured, well presented, well researched and written from the heart, bravo!
comprehensive. could be used as textbook
so guys parents came to England in the 50s and that led him to say and believe that history of England is history of immigration. I always thought that England was older than 70 years. Europe was never European I guess too.
Very well put together, great job guys!
Great program
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Britain under conservative government there was a lot of discrimination
Interesting how this documentary glossed over the joining of the EU, and the migration of Eastern Europeans into the UK. Not _that_ surprising though, seen as though the 'true colours' of many longstanding non-EU migrants became clear in the way that they treated Eastern Europeans. Lots of the racism against Poles/Lithuanians etc came from within the Pakistani community, at least in West Yorkshire.
Britain's migrant groups are not all innocent angels!
If thatcher was against trade unions,then immigration from the 3rd world would have only weakened the trade unions. Very confusing premise😮
04:40 "my dad was actually born in Luton" her dad has property in Venice and tries to portray herself as working class or something
Does she?
That hadn't come across to me, I'm obviously not classist enough.
Incorrect 10.30. only people (of any colour) who had a parent or grandparent born in Britain could enter Britain. That excluded a lot of white Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians
White is always white. Excuses for each other
Thanks guys, great piece!
History repeats itself.
This is good, very good, but it misses out sooo much, it misses the 1971 Immigration Act, the first ever general ban on immigration, it cites the 1968 but not the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act or the 1948 British Nationality Act or the 1905 & 1792 Aliens Acts. It misses General Pinochet's Neoliberalism before Thatcher & Reagan. It misses Dutch immigrants draining the Fens. It misses the Danelaw, 1066 & the Romans. It misses that the native population are Celts, an ethnic group unwelcome within either NF or BNP & discriminated against by Government. It misses that our 1850 disease control system, a world first, was deliberately shut down to make way for an outsourced failure. It misses sooo much more...
I hope to see a much more comprehensive treatment of this vital group of topics very soon.
London has an Islamic Mayor and an Indian Home Secretary
It also has the BBC. I bet that p@sses you off the most.
Emotional brit. We taking over and we will do it bit by bir
@@rashiidabdallah1648 Your luck could run out
Report on Britain's fuel shortages & crisis
I'm being attacked by a low frequency sound generating weapon
haha, it's your brain on drugs
yup,people who migrate to you places and dont stand the local demands for non manual labour jobs(and in many cases,even people who do meet the demands) take manual labour.there would be no qatar without foreign workers....
irish and italians and russians and finnish worked in feeding boiler rooms in factories,ships and trains.
jews from east europe worked in sweatshops across the lower east side when they first came from east europe.
what is communism?some government clerk telling you what to do in your life and how much you will get paid for it...
Jewish folks were already in the west and are the ones that own most of the companies in the world.
@@rashiidabdallah1648 1)russia aint the west and most jews who came to the us from russian empire and poland worked as labourers in the lower east side,its not that they decide to live in tenements in the lower east side willingly and just moved to the upper west side in recent years.
2)anerica aint all of the west and even in america jews dont own "most of the companies",you can say jews are disproportionately rich(certain WASPS and their descendents). you are welcome to read who were the robber barons and chicago brahmins,and about the jewish qouta in us universities.
3)i am mizrahi jew,wich mizrahi jews "already lived in the west"? jews have left behind huge wealth in arab countries ans started again abroad(north african jews in italy and france,rest of nizrahi jews in israel) as vendors and labourers and still made it without natural oil and gas.
Nurses and Doctors from overseas. But how did their training compare to the training and knowledge and expertise that was the British standard?
Is working for the NHS disrespected?
Yes
Are you proud of your Indian heritage?
Says the white lady
the deaths were from ventilators. nothing else.
❤❤❤❤❤2023 new book. Teaching white supremacy by Donald Yacovan They stopped teaching white supremacy in public schools 1776-1965. Due to Martin Luther king and Malcomb X
This would be funny if it wasn’t so racist. My brother-in-law died at the beginning of the pandemic due to doctors not knowing how to treat it. To say it was because he was Hispanic would be an insult to his memory. You people are the true racists in this world. SMH
Racist England is exposed so don't hate that
@@rashiidabdallah1648 To say a country is racist is arbitrary and vicious. A place cannot be racist but individuals can. Are you racist? Do you have hate in your heart toward others based on only their race? Do you present that feeling toward them and expect something else back? Perhaps it’s easier for me as a female, but I find a smile or a kind gesture to be a great icebreaker with those whom I am unfamiliar. I wish you nothing but happiness and a friendly gesture which leads to better understanding between yourself and those you deem to be your offenders.
I think some English folks are arrogant with superiority complex . But obviously there are wonderful people too
Majority have superiority complex and some are good.
@@rashiidabdallah1648 really bad.. never seen such arrogance..
Al jazeera. Putting a microscope on everyone but itself (qatar)
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Was really enjoying this documentary until I saw kehinde andrews who is the biggest race baiter,
If a black person or any other non-white person exposes the racism in England i agree with that pers
If Britain is so bad leave for a better life elsewhere.
an emotional English said so. The weakest reaction that you could come up with.
A demised empire which cannot keep up with its colonial past, France not perfect but tries to do a better job 😂
Nice to see Margret thatcher.
bollocks laughable worse than the bbc
Nice
It is common for first generation immigrants, esp. if they don't have higher education to have to work in low wage jobs. That doesn't make it a plot. My mother's parents came from England to Canada. My grandfather only had handyman skills. They were poor, even though they were the same colour and culture as the dominant social group. They made sure their 3 sons got a good education. Their three sons all did very well.
I have met immigrants from Africa who just don't have the cultural background to know how to enter the middle class. Their children will do better. On the other hand doctors trained in, say, India quickly get hired by hospitals and do very well.
He hit him they didn’t home in and hit him from behind cowardice
I’m British and definitely not racist,you really need to choose your words carefully,even the headline implying we’re all the same as one
calm down buddy, nobody is saying that all British people are racists
This country is racist you hide better than the USA that all
@@fortytwo244 whatever. You people call all native European people racist the minute they take their own people's side. How about you go back to your country invite the world to live with you _then_ show us how to be good anti-racists.
@@bengillen1287 you people have no room to complain, people of colour are not invading and looting other people's countries to were they need to invite other people to there countries, you people have no problem going into other countries, but have the audacity to complain when those people come into your country😕 the hypocrisy is mind boggling.
Try multiculturalism in India Pakistan or Syria
They did it in south-africa and the whites took over
What was your experience in India,Pakistan and Syria?Do tell,enlighten us?😜
Racislam.
Racist England
Folks, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for our sins.
He was buried and resurrected on the third day.
Believe in Him to be saved.
BTW Emmanuel aka Jesus was never on a cross, instead he was flogged and banished and returned to India where he'd learned his healing & levitation techniques previously. He left with his wife Mary Magdalen and they raised a family. Emmanuel aka Jesus died a very happy man, of old age!
"Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive."
(Titus 2:9-10)
lol
Exodus 21:16
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
@@BigReddthehebrew good quote but it's talking about men not slaves
Everything has to be towards race we are honestly obsessed its unhealthy.
Its unhealthy cos it doesnt fit your narrative!
@@filipepedro8272 its unhealthy to see the world in such a one sided way as that's all you will ever see in life.
@@nathanielatfield5706 yeah people have been onsided and single out in this broken system. Go to the core of the problem and you might find some answers to your questions
@@filipepedro8272 yes there is an economic broken system yes but a racial one no not at all it's an illusion. Everyone has a choice of where they want to be in life no excuses in today's world there is always someone else to blame when really it's all in the mind of the individual. It wasn't a question it was an answer 😂.
@@nathanielatfield5706 an economic broken system that benefits the wealthiest and the paliest over the prejudice of others. We saw with COVID situation who got hit the hardest. Anyways we not seeking validation. Facts are facts!
I am white Brit born in 1969. Even though my grandparents were racist I can assure you me and my children are not. This is not true for most Brits. This doc is so far left wing the plane would crash.
This doc is about the history of structural underlying racism baked into successive administrations and their policies and how it has affected black and brown British people, not about you or other white British people being racist.
Its not about you, Its about the broken system!
Call it what it is, the whole point is to demonize indigenous European people. It's easy to see who the real racists are here, British people have nothing to apologize for.
@@rishideosaran3801 you are not British anymore than I'm Indian or Pakistani. If you hate the native population so much you're free to leave. If they were half as bad as you claim then you would not move to the UK in your millions would you.
@@bengillen1287 stating facts don't mean anyone's seeking British validation. Just keep your apology away safe and sound!
Shame on you Al Jazeera. What a disgusting accusation
too bad it's true and not an accusation
It's how it's presented (dishonestly). It's the same here, my community had higher rates of this and that. Why? Racism. (Reality: house parties and no one giving a F about the virus curfew or mandates).
@@Jamie0175 you mean to tell me the beginning point about the poor nurse's story whose immigrant father passed away 10 days before her after having to work manual labour in the UK despite being a qualified educator before war ravaged his home country does not illustrate to you the implications of people's race being most times implicitly tied to socioeconomic status and therefore their exposure to the virus, particularly during the early stages of the pandemic? There are also spatial dimensions to the phenomena as well that isn't covered in this doc but it but it seems like you missed the entire point regardless.
@@rishideosaran3801 "spatial dimensions to the phenomena" sure thing my man.
@@Jamie0175 as in the disproportionate impact on minorities varies over space, I.e in the north versus the south, so depending on where you live you may not even notice it. Doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
Al jerzera is straight Muslim propaganda.