Discussing the Black Lives Matter protests spreading across the US following the death of George Floyd, the podcaster, full name George Mpanga, described “disturbing parallels between the Black British experience and the African American experience”.
George The Poet refuted Emily Maitlis’s claims that racism in the UK is not “on the same footing” as it is in America while appearing on Newsnight on Monday (1 June).
“We’ve had a report many years ago looking at institutional racism and you would hope reversing or aiming to open that up.”
Mpanga replied: “If it’s not the same then you have to explain to me why Julian Cole is not an exception.