BBC, BAME & Blonking!
By Max Musson: It was Greg Dyke, at that time Director general of the BBC, who stated in January 2001 that the BBC was “hideously White”. This statement came in an interview broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland that month, in which he compared the BBC to the Metropolitan Police, who had been branded ‘institutionally racist’ by the 1998 Macpherson Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. Dyke didn’t say that the BBC…
The Hobbit – The Negrification of Middle Earth
By Max Musson: Having never read either J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘The Hobbit’, I cannot write as a great authority on this subject, but I am a fan of director Peter Jackson’s portrayal of these epic sagas in his recent films. An interesting aspect of the few criticisms ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy received was that there were no parts for non-Whites, and that the portrayal of evil characters…