BBC BLACK BRITAIN'S REYA EL-SALAHI INTERVIEWS BEN ODEJE

Roy

LISTEN AGAIN to last night's Reya El-Salahi's show and hear Benjamin Odeje, England's first black player, speak about his career during a period where he faced banana skins and racism... How has life as a black football player changed today?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0205yb8

nth_london_addick

Wouldn't it just be good to be called multi cultural Britain

Not black or white

So obsessed with colour these days turns people off

Roy

nth london addick said:

Wouldn't it just be good to be called multi cultural Britain

Not black or white

So obsessed with colour these days turns people off

Personally I'm 'obsessed' with FARE JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE, it took 42 years for Ben Odeje to get the recognition that he deserved from the FA when Marc Ashdown (a white BBC reporter) broke Ben Odeje's story in 2013. I certainly don't have any problem working with the BBC Black Britain team, which once included my friend from Addey & Stanhope School days, the film producer Faith Isiakpere, who the last I heard after he had completed The Children of Africa film with Mr Mandela, Stevie Wonder and Isaac Hayes etc, was that he was working with Moments Entertainment http://momentsentertainment.info/about us.html and the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa.

nth_london_addick

There you go again Roy it matters not if the.reporter was white blue green or black

As for black Britain personally I.dont see white or black Britain and see no need for anything or any organisation that feels the need to colour code it's self

Roy

It's 'one race the human race' for me. I just use the descriptions that organisations use themselves, or which seem appropriate in normal everyday conversation. England v Uruguay tonight "COME ON ENGLAND"