Akala deconstructs race, class, and Britain's modern myths | Unfiltered with James O'Brien #32 

I do too, I am often reminded of it in discussion and will come n grab the link for people and then end up watching in full again. I find him absolutely fascinating his knowledge and understanding is second to none x

God bless you. I hope that life works out for you.

Big up Kilburn

@@farzanamughal5933 ye man, BLESS

yes, it was the same here in the Birmingham Area, where most of my friends were of Irish descent ,their Parents had it really hard, decades of Abuse and belittling,and banishment , life is just not Fair to some of us, the question i alway's ask is this; Why is it that corrupt and devious people airbrush real history, to suit an agenda, and let chaos ensue for the immeasurable masses to fathom out, and whom attempt to build bridges with effort and boundless Love , only to have it all destroyed by the stroke of a politicians pen' ?? 🤔

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That was weak. Try again friend x

Luke Reid and your clearly not creative in your belligerent ignorance

Akala is a grade A afrocentric, racist moron with a victim complex. He just happens to be quite charismatic too, which fools idiots like you.

Much more poetic but still tame. Must try harder x

like that one really racist time he tried to teach kids Shakespeare and appreciate the country they come from. what a total cunt!

that’s called beta male white guilt

Most definitely true

TheHatedHater yeah, can’t stop the tears

TheHatedHater and some caffeine to help me stay awake reading your boring and pointless comments

TheHatedHater Zzzzzzzz

R u agitated?

@Max OnFire your an idiot

@@brandonfromlondonuk3484 keep your mouth shut Muppet. I'll wait for fackin reply mate

Lmao

Akala matata

Tis capitalism

@@kieranhardy581 The state have propped up the housing market with shared ownership and deposit schemes, they have also consistently reduced interest rates, every 1% reduction in rates means a 10% increase in prices, ie. affordability is affected. The Government now cant increase rates because of their own 2 trillion debt mountain, the interest on state debt would mean massive tax increases. In addition the huge amount of quantitive easing has boosted asset prices, stocks and property values are driven up by low government bond yields and huge injections of state cash, in other words the Left wingers are indirectly causing the problems they complain about and blame 'capitalism' a true free market would have balanced out prices with high interest rates years ago

@@jamesandrew1750 I dont care about the free market when the government seems to have a fetish for inflation

TalkNorwichCity much like his music

This is an education..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dnmq7utJGJQ.html

The best kind of education

Pat 68. What a snarky, bigoted piece of binary polemics you've posted. I'm guessing you "want your country back" from whomever...

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No he combines lots of things that are taken out of context, pseudo social science theories and a lot of generalisation to construct a narrative that then makes sense. Go through each comment he uses, analyse the context, each statistic, historical analysis and so forth most of everything he uses to build his theory either is easily challengeable or completely misrepresented or out of context. what most of what modern media is accused of doing he is doing. Don't take my word for it listen to his other content on RU-vid or his writings and you don't have to go too deep to start picking apart the things he is saying as almost blatant lies.

Amazing beautiful (soul) man

@Chris Trevanion can you please expound on this, I think I missed sth I'd like to know about. Thank you very much 🙏

Chris Trevanion when was the last time you was in Angola?

@95 CRIP people generally talk before they take action...

Nothing but race baiting, and data collecting, to fit his anti-white narrative and keep the black kids angry. Nice.

it's a problem as Akala is a Marxist and I don't follow him at all - I prefer Tomas Sowell ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B--gQVANKCE.html

Beyond intelligence? You need to get out more.

I feel you, I grew up in a shit part of the south side. I vaguely knew of Akala as a rapper but only discovered in the last few days that he happens to be an incredible orator and an absolute scholar, who also just happens to be a brilliant rapper. Can't get enough of listening to him speak.

If you listen to what he says, here, you'll realise he *clearly* and *unambiguously* places race firmly in context of the class system in this country. I do not recognise the story you're trying to put across. If you didn't hear it try listening again. It's quite a rounded piece. Of course, he uses his own perspective...as a lens through which to view broader problems... It's *all* there. Just listen.

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Jimm Stick I think you should listen to this podcast fully.

Jimm Stick I think you need to listen to him without prejudice. It’s interesting how understanding something or someone gives us greater latitude to resolve a problem, as opposed to perpetuating it. Many times, when we see or hear someone saying or doing something unusual, our first reaction is to make judgments about something we really don’t understand. If what we observe doesn’t conform to what we learned from past experiences, we promptly dismiss it. Even if we may disagree with a person’s point of view or don’t understand one’s behavior, we may pre-judge the rationality of their view or behavior without understanding that there may be legitimate reasons why a person believes or behaves the way they do. Whether these reasons are good or not is a matter of interpretation. The fact is, with every observable act, there’s always a genealogy of events that have pre-conditioned any moment that confronts us. Instead of making hasty and inconclusive judgments about the nature of our experience, wouldn’t it benefit us to suspend judgments until we have measured and analyzed the underlying nature of the phenomena before us? When we don’t poise ourselves to comprehend any situation, belief, or individual behavior, we contribute to how that person, belief, or situation will be misconstrued. This habit of prematurely rejecting something new or different because we’re not accustomed to it can result in someone’s behavior or belief being stigmatized, ridiculed, and unaccepted. Our impulsive rejection of phenomena that doesn’t conform to our own common sense can ultimately culminate in many injustices

divide and conquer has been every states go to forever. Keep the poor divded and hating eachother so the rich profit. Its not revolutionary xD

You’re not a right-leaning centrist, mate.

Arthur interesting how you know that from one comment on a single person’s view on a complex issue. Where would you say I stand on the political spectrum, pal?

i’m left and love your attitude

Perry Mason people on the internet don’t seem to realise centrist means that you agree with aspects of both sides lol

Ricky Cheese haha I know... I think it’s just because many are so used to giving and receiving hate for anybody that doesn’t just agree with them 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Nicely put and illustrates a lot of what needs to be changed. It's not racist to hate someone because of their skin colour if they are white.

The victim mentality is toxic and the (new) left loves it, believe in yourself because nobody is gonna save you stand up for your interests and what you think is right not what people tell you to think is right.

@@mattfm101 People shouldn't in general need to think what is right they should have been taught what is right, when talking about morals etc. Obviously this is not the case with some people that is when they have to be rehabilitated, if possible. Some decisions require a combined agreement on what is right such as capital punishment if we get these wrong it is possible that anyone could suffer the consequences.

Exactly hence the term = victim hood

I'v never heard people say they hate "Scousers,"apart from extreme moronic football fans!. But of course I'v heard all the jokes and Piss taking about stealing&crime up in Liverpool,but at the same time I'v encountered Scousers who have done exactly the same(exploiting stereotypes)about Londoner's. Now there's always going 2b a time when some of the remarks irritate but for the most part u take it for what it is! .And as for being pulled over by Police,well of course that's part and parcel of growing up in poorer working class area's of the country(especially the inner Cities) But listening to this "Race baiter"talking, u would swear he had it so much harder than anyone else. When u are raised in a poor borough like Hackney(and I'm talking about yrs ago,as opposed to now) one of the most recognisable points and common denominators was everyone was in a similar boat Economically and struggling to get by..Black or White! And amongst these groups u had good and bad,but plenty of hard working people. But u didn't see the Blacks being any worse off than Whites's economically(more to the contrary in many cases)But u learned to get along (sometimes).So listening to this dude seize his moment with this 24ct C##t O,brien makes me cringe!!.It's just an opportunity to grab some $$$$,.Now that's the real coup!

Thanks!

Ignore the Hater, Non Ofyourbusiness. You're spoddon...

That's exactly what I did. ;)

So because you're antagonised by the facts hes telling you, that makes him 'racebaiting'? HAHA! Nah love, it just makes you an ignorant racist. And if you havent already noticed, race has been politicised since the beginning, so its clear to everyone here that you do NOT know what you're talking about.

Joe Bloggs - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9rh1dhur4aI.html Interesting to see you don't even try to hide your Nazi tendencies. My great-grandfather fought your like, and I will too if necessary. If your war does materialize, you will find that not all of us are the soft targets you seem to think.

Joe Bloggs - that is an epic amount of historical revisionism. And total bollocks made up by Nazi apologists. There is a staggering amount of evidence for the holocaust, which was aimed at gypsies, trade-unionists, left-wing people, the disabled and gay people, as well as Jews. This has actually been demonstrated several times in court cases in countries where there are laws against holocaust denial. In short - you are a Nazi. The lowest of the low. The human race has spent thousands of years being amazingly horrible to each other, and in this whole long and sorry history, there have never been a worse bunch of cunts than you lot.

@Herman Hosch It equates to how things "actually are" from THEIR perspective...

@Dinki Di Your objectively open mind seems to have shut down during all the factual information he presented and the parts where he stressed that his personal experience is not representative of all people from his background. You might want to get that checked out lest you go arse over tit down that slippery slope.

ED11 facts but I pity the fool that comes for akala.

AT ALL COSTS

Ashe’ to my brother akala... the ancestors are protecting him... 🙏🏿

ED11 Akala is an irrelevant ,.no one gives a fu*k about the twat .

From his shadow, no pun intended.

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wow akala can't you run for the priminister as your knowledge is power but i guess society does not want us to know the truth

@@alisonfarquharson3870 The English public would have a fit: they couldn't even handle a mixed half white lady in the Royal family for 5 mins:

Solly your words reach the world .thankyou me romany gipsy england truth is truth

@@ccn8741 May you be Blessed ,my kindred spirit, With the LOVE of Almighty God, we shall Prevail against all servitude , Take care, and may the New year bring much needed Joy and Happiness to you and your Family, BLESS 😇

Rose from the gutter? I don’t think so. And he makes that quite clear numerous times, throughout the interview. He had positive make role models, he had structure and support in his life. He had direction, and was motivated and encouraged. Clearly he had food on the table, and family that loved him. He passed on the opportunity to go to private school. And you say he was endlessly traumatized and rose from the gutter? You’ve clearly missed the point. Systemic racism is something that influences people with how to feel and behave toward people according to their race, and presumed class. This isn’t a traumatic experience. Some blacks may fall through the cracks because the system, and systemic racism failed them, but Akala very clearly used systemic racism as an opportunity to learn, observe, and excel. Without systemic racism, quite frankly, he wouldn’t have his platform. Don’t get me wrong, racism in any form sucks, but lumping him into some bottom of the gutter category because of the color of his skin and assuming every day of his life is full of trauma really fails to miss the point. I’m sure it’s well intended, and that you are acting from a place of compassion, but the assumption that all black peoples are perpetually traumatized and all have to lift themselves out of the gutter is a hasty generalization, and still has a tad bit of something that doesn’t feel very good. Perhaps not racism, but it’s a type of compassion/support that is less helpful than it is helpful.

You mean an ignorant man child that has no profession, no trade and no economic benefit to the country

The oilandgasresourceportal I can’t say I have the foggiest what you’re on about but more power to you

follow the money and tell me who's doing well off today Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition David Cameron's ancestors were among the wealthy families who received generous reparation payments that would be worth millions of pounds in today's money Sanchez Manning Sunday 24 February 2013 01:00 13 comments Slavery on an industrial scale was a major source of the wealth of the British empire Slavery on an industrial scale was a major source of the wealth of the British empire ( Getty Images ) The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families received the modern equivalent of billions of pounds in compensation after slavery was abolished. The previously unseen records show exactly who received what in payouts from the Government when slave ownership was abolished by Britain - much to the potential embarrassment of their descendants. Dr Nick Draper from University College London, who has studied the compensation papers, says as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived all or part of their fortunes from the slave economy. As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them. Dr Draper said: "There was a feeding frenzy around the compensation." A John Austin, for instance, owned 415 slaves, and got compensation of £20,511, a sum worth nearly £17m today. And there were many who received far more. history can set us all free

@@alvintheodule2018 So you're saying the descendants of slave owners should pay reparations to the descendants of slaves. BTW... Have you ever had a DNA test?

what are you saying ?

@@burntsoup too MUCH lawlessness in schools

He realises it because he himself mentioned that the evidence is clear and overwhelming. His own internalised racism won’t allow him to accept it. That was A KEY MOMENT when it comes to racism. And how people uphold it. By denying it. By calling it conspiracy theory. By feigning shock despite having a horrific and barbaric past that is WELL RECORDED

PRIVILEGE!!!

And he's a so-called liberal, so this should show what we're really up against as black people. Every generation, white people pretend to be surprised that whites were so thoughtless.

The real problemo is class

"Give the people what they want!" We'll definitely try to get Akala on for another episode in the future

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@Ojciec Rydzyk hahah "rasist" "marksist" you div

@Ojciec Rydzyk how did you come to that conclusion? Everything I've heard has been by appearance has been a very fair depiction of current society, even in his music......

Are you all fukkin high on drugs

@@hafsa-qv1ub I live in the woods

@@hafsa-qv1ub he needs no platform or I'll blame you

@@hafsa-qv1ub yes I

Christ! Did you *actually listen* to *anything* he said??

andybycz I think he is what the Americans would term as 'triggered'(!)

Gj420 j Do your own historical research don’t listen to this twat, did you see the fish on his left shoulder and the chip on his right! 😂😫

Gj420 j . . . You learnt Akalas twisted version of History sadly . . .

what shit schools did you go to then Gj420

Because sadly, people are often idiots that prefer to interpret things to fit their own narrative

Because he is. I’m black and I’m a lot blacker than that glass of milk and I’ve faced no issues at all over my skin. I’ve faced prejudice from being from Liverpool but never being black. He only ever crops up when he can make a bit of money from playing the victim. Is he correct in his history? 100% and of course there’s certainly truth to it culturally and I myself was a “victim” before I joined the paras. What the paras thought me was we always need to look at ourself first. Accept culpability and not blame others. Him and his kin are not teaching our young black men (but it’s an important message for all our young men) that. He’s teaching them to feel sorry for themselves, to point the finger instead of hard work. He’s a rich dude with a public voice and had one of the best educations in the country and yet he has the nerve to sit there and tell us we’ll never amount to anything because the white man won’t let us? That the single dad rate is so much higher in the black community than white because of an empire in the 1700? He has the nerve to say we have no voice? No one will listen? That everyone hates us just because we’re black? Nah, he’s a rat, mate. People like him do more harm than good.

Because many of his facts are wrong.

This is true. I cited a few of his historical errors above.

@Symbolic Non-Literal North of England always poor, Luanda being a great place, democracies in Mesopotamia, 2-3% of the populous requiring education. criticism of Clement Attlee and Thomas Sowell (I mean really)

James o'brien was adopted as a child and also have black relatives. He can tell you that.

You reckon? I thought he was incredibly patronising

That's interesting 🤔

today I walked into an american second hand store with the intention of buying my first dresser of drawers, i'm 44- never had a dresser, no need really because I didn't ever have enough cloths. I had to call my best friend to ask her if I deserve a $200 antique dresser, that's how low I think of myself as a result of being born and raised in poverty. I'm both upset with myself for not buying the fucking dressers but who not standing up for myself either.

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Yes, they sound like a brilliant idea.

I had never heard of them. My white friend in her 60s told me recently about '1 O' clock clubs' in London in the 80s - I didn't know about those either. Places in parks in London Boroughs where you could go with your kids and get soup and activities. She said there was one in most parks. Sounds amazing. Then SureStart came along, then the tories took that away.

You need a daddy, boys being raised in fatherless households where mommy has a boyfriend that don't give a you know what, about the kids of another.

stepbak123 I'm in that same place as u lol every lecture on here I've watched of his

Me three ...on an Akala binge

kiddvandal91 .....have some soya milk that might help.

stepbak123 you have company I enjoy listening to him so much I bought the book in audio for me and 2 of my boy and hardback for the other one.

Ha ha me too

Or maybe Thomas Sowell

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NeilsFeels Some people will never understand or comprehend the truth, always the McDonald’s wage “wohrken clahhz” brainwashed brexit type

You are not blind unlike a lot of people that tend to act like one. You might not understand but At least you acknowledge how blacks are being racially targeted unwillingly or willingly.

@Nigel surveillance capitalism has been around for a while.

The left try to rewrite history every chance they get.

@@bobertrarton6266 The elitists try to cover up their past.

George Orwell AKA Eric Blair, went to Eton, but he's ok coz he fought the Facist's in the Spanish civil war

@@bobertrarton6266 some people hate the necessary context the left inserts. Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything, he got lost and found people that were already living on this side of the world. But the purposefull narrative that he discovered stuff is comfortable for a certain people for the exact reason all the brown and black folks have a blond hair blue eyes Jesus poster in their house.

He's a normal bright intellect. He reads. Don't we get used to being informed cross-disciplinary, to deal with the slippery turbo-charged opinions of privilege.

Why wouldn't anyone expect him to be "so intelligent"?? Akala isn't unknown.

@@apehyncho3685 how is my comment fully of jealousy or envy? Seems like you're the one who needs to get their head out of their own arse before making a comment.

@Stewart Goldberg TTC Of course it does not state this in British law. That would be unbelievably backwards. Akala is pointing out a variety of factors that exclusively affect black people in the UK. For example, the fact that they are 2.6 times more likely to be expelled accounting for 'all' other factors. Or how the British curriculum does not properly shed light on black history, or how our government utterly failed to do any justice to the Windrush generation, or the way the media focuses so much on the race of black people when reporting on crime but ignores it when talking about the achievements of black individuals. There is still murder in the UK. Nowhere in British law does it say we ought to murder anyone. Just because it does not say in British law that there is a conspiracy does not mean there isn't.

Eva kalz ....why does no one expect him to be this intelligent? Really really curious to hear your answer here????

I've said this from day. How much red tape would be around his actions and decisions though?

Why dont we have intelligent people like him in charge? Its a bit sad to think how much better world we could live in.

Fuck Yes

@sf2explus he's half white

@Obi-Wan Kenobi Politics attracts those who would be corrupt unfortunately.

what do you mean unbelievably?

@@KaoruSan241 Could they simply they're impressed, does it have to imply racial assumption FFS

You need to get a life then

Akala is literally thickest person I've ever come across. Stone cold racist who blames Whitey for everything.

KaoruSan241 get a grip. Trying to imply that there’s racist connotations in what I’ve said. Fucking clown. It’s a figure of speech. If my football team played really well, I’d say they were unbelievable. Stop looking for issues where there’s none. Can’t even give a man I admire credit without some idiot making insinuations

I love to be apart of an interacting audience of Trevor Noah and Akala! That would be Boom!!

I had the exact same thought. Akala and Trevor. That would be an amazing interview.

So in agreement 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Johnson is well known worldwide as a compulsive liar, a slovenly deceitful bigoted liar, he has committed several illegal and criminal acts before and during his Priministership. You may remember his collusion to beat up a journalist and the Withdrawal Agreement that was forced through by Johnson without time for scrutiny. This caused the need for the illegal Internal Market Bill after some MP's noticed that the W.A. was not what they were told. This deal, agreed with the EU is going to be put through Parliament under exactly the same circumstances, with the obvious future result that it will have to be circumvented under sufferance forced by the same MP's, resulting in severe tariff and restrictions being implemented by the EU. The UK will suffer even more loss in the near future. How the fuck did we get into this almighty shitshow of a mess?

Please don't mention Akala and Noah in the same breath

@gotsda can you elaborate on his pseudonymy? Or how you know or think he is that way...

Yes Akala is awesome! He clearly does his research of the cold hard facts and of course the cherry on top is his personal experiences, there definitely should be more people like him😊🙌

@gotsda must be white.

The world is filled with humans exactly like him ...education is the key ...you give every human a rounded education ,standardised and eclectic. Understanding is taught .

@@brendakabanda2181 wow ...racism in a thread like this .... let's leave the colour appropriately off this page ... you are clearly a pale shade of green with purple toes ... I expect your colour matches your outburst .

Detest??

I believe You can only be well informed by listening to opinions that challenge your world view.

We'll try Gavin! We could've chatted to Akala for hours

JOE_co_uk absolutely cud listen him whole day his understanding about world view is such a refreshing yet very factual... perhaps you cud start series highlighting different topics every other week..

Sucksisfill

I honestly don’t know what those people are thinking, especially when teachers are supposed to be more leftist and largely oppose brexit. You sound like you‘ve made a lot of yourself anyway, but of course this issue is much greater than a individual one.

Why is that bad? Did you show them qualifications and they didn’t listen? If you come from Germany and are white they will probably put you in lower sets to see how you fare then adjust your classes once they have a barometer of what level you are at. Which is what they did. If I moved to say Ghana i wouldn’t expect to be put in top Set maths, I’m actually mediocre at maths and was middle set. Why look for racism so hard all the time. Get over yourself mate.

@@Sidowse she did not say any of that, she said it was do to her race and with white people its because they're daft.

Calum Hock This is why Minor right wing supporters hate you left wingers, because you think your opinion is always right just like how most of them couldn’t stop moaning about brexit. Teachers arnt suppose to be anything I’ve had very conservative teachers that cared for me the most and best thing is if you wanna talk about race he was black. Teachers shouldn’t get political because it’s a breach of trust when they are young and completely opinion based

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I think I would go for an Akala - Coleman Hughes discussion. Jordan Peterson can be nice (depending on the topic), but for this topic I would except better insights from a Akala - Coleman Hughes discussion.

I would love to see both of these discussions!! Maybe even a group discussion between the three of them

Yeah, so Akala can be exposed as the virulent racist that he is

@Tatsujiro Kurogane You're so enlightened. Please tell us what we need to do to make society better

So what ?

@@P-e_A-c_E "So what" that they make people work twice as hard for the same money just because of the place they were born? Well, thats literally racism when people do that. How racism is bad and it has negative results, I leave that up to you to research and understand

@@nikoskabbadias Eastern Europeans tend to be white so how is it racist?

@@pb8876 well because Eastern Europeans are a different ethnic group from Anglo Saxons, remember the British didn’t consider Eastern Europeans, Irish or Italians as “white” until sometime in the 1900’s. They British were racist against other white people too not just blacks, but as Akala said, once they needed the support to fight their wars they had to change up the racial classifications which they instituted in the first place. It’s stupid cuz you’re all the same colour; but it just shows how ridiculous racism is altogether.

I'm white , bought up on benefits, someone said to me when I was little "You'll have to work twice as hard" ....I'm glad! Progression comes through hardship not through ease (quick Morgan Freeman quote!) . Victim mentality will get you know where. Looking back at your family history to try and define your own situation is at best informative and interesting but applying that to the context of your own life, is just futile.

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The Emanuel Ribeiro Project calling Akala an intellectual is rather amusing. He's just a race pimp like Jesse Jackson before him.

In fairness, I was trying to think of a less academic term, I think educator is a better term, my bad. He's not a race pimp though, he raises important issues about British history that we often find too easy to forget.

Josh B does he bollocks. He just whines about the past incessantly.

Well as a history student whining about the past is right up my street. Especially the insidious effect of racialisation of commonwealth migrants in the 60s, and even earlier if you count racist imperial ideology that justified the pillaging of whole countries to support our current lifestyle at the expense of most other countries in the rest of the world. The recent 'Windrush' scandal is evidence of the racist immigration policies of the past 70 years coming home to haunt us. As a student of British immigration history, Akala is a breath of fresh air in a very foul xenophobia room. He is definitely more marxist in his analysis and in his belief in the coherence of the state intervention as an actor in racism rather than looking at specific discourses of racism, but that is expected as he grounds his analysis within his pan-African activism, and as a part of a minority in Britain he has historically experienced the severity of the state in ways most white Britons haven't. His insights and political contributions are invaluable and welcome at a time where British identity has become increasingly narrow and nationalism more extreme.

Josh B good lord, you sound just like him. Tough break kiddo.

Mate. That would not be a debate!!! 🤣

He tried debating Tommy Robinson & lost

@@jamesrun4eva474 no, he didn't lose, he lucidly and calmly destroyed Stephen Yaxley Lennon's points, such as they were, whilst 'Tommy' tried to shout over him, before sinking into a sulk.

He famously put Yaxley Lennon in his place - think that's still on RU-vid somewhere.

Scott Mamby And those informal fallacies were ......?

si lewis .....have you got a job ?

Luke Reid I think you still resent when he schooled Tommy Robinson.

@TF MS too right fella thats the governments job

Not only in the UK. The same examples hold true in the timelines of other countries.

Ummmm, how about no. We already have enough Marxist indoctrination in this country thanks

John Smith Dont like the truth do ya

Marxism is a great system. We need a revolution, reminiscent of France or Russia, to overthrow this racist Tory government. We can police ourselves and make Britain a more diverse society. Now who’s with me?!

@@chelseacomps829 Jesus christ you're an easily manipulated idiot. Remember this comment when you're sent to a Marxist re-education camp

@ab c I cannot be put in a box, I am neither left or right. There is elements of logic in both, I'm the happy medium

imagine a bangaldesi i girl trying to say what he does? no one will be impressed

Euro-African he’s not lightskinned black he is mixed raced. You lot literally have your own ethnicity section. If parents do not teach their kids their history they will grow up lost and confused. It starts in the household.

racism in britian aint just racism towards blacks. but its the only one we choose to talk about. this shows me how racist britian really is

Henry Fung every single race suffers from micro-aggressions and racism. They like focusing on the black/white racism because they know that nothing will change in the long run.

many of my black female friends believe racism has declined for blacks. i think mixed race marriages has helped that. but for pakistani/bangaldeshi type people it seems to be stuck in the 50's

ckzckw exactly, I was raised on a Tyne and Wear council estate to a single parent family under the Thatcher government yet people like James o brien look at my skin colour and assume I had the same start as he did. He’s little more than a useful idiot.

and yet you ignore the point akala made in this video. you can't seriously vote tory when you know the problem is class , not race because tories gain power from divisive race focused politics, rather than class focused politics

downwithjedward I disagree , you could be a black, migrant, Muslim transgender but if you have money then the Tories will welcome you.....the Labour Party used to represent the poor regardless of race, etc but they now care more about forced multiculturalism than they do about the poor. Poverty is the biggest divide and we, from that background have NO representation anymore.

Stop and think for a moment. Wouldn't a united multicultural poor be about the worst nightmare of the Tories? Low-SES whites are complicit in their own oppression by believing the Tories when they say that the problem is immigrants who will work for less - ignoring that it's Tory-voting business owners (and donors) who are breaking the law by paying sub-minimum wages to those immigrants. Wake up!

Alan Duval most areas that voted Labour in the North , still do.....to assume that “white people” are the cause is simplistic as best. Labour lost their way a long time ago and rather than review their policies and re engage with the voters they did lose, they instead try to push for lower voting age and snap elections as soon as they can be called.

OOOPS! (Akala gets to this!!!!!) Apologies, I was typing as I watched the conversation... xx SF

Steve Sandford ... As a child of the Troubles myself ... Republican BTW ... the same issues we grew up with ... and you explained them eloquently ...

Saoirse, siochan, is maitheas duit, A Chara... xx SF (Freedom, Peace and Goodness to you, Frend...)

Zé Couves you dont think you can be both non-white and Irish?

Zé Couves you know there are non-white people born in Ireland right? You know that makes them Irish don't you?