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30-10-2020, 06:11 PM | #1 | |||
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Lenny Henry Comic Relief will stop sending white celebrities to Africa after Stacey Dooley backlash
Lenny Henry has confirmed that his Comic Relief charity will no longer send white celebrities to Africa after it was accused of perpetuating the ‘white saviour’ stereotype. The charity has come under fire previously with Stacey Dooley at the centre of controversy last year when she posted a photo of herself carrying a Black child from Uganda with the caption ‘obsessed’. In 2017, Ed Sheeran’s campaign video was branded ‘poverty porn’ after he was filmed paying for a young boy’s housing in Liberia. Comic Relief videos are typically filmed on the ground in disadvantaged African countries with celebrities, who are often white, usually seen meeting local children to Lenny said: ‘A lot has changed over Comic Relief’s 35 years, and so the way we raise money and talk about the issues we are here to tackle, and the people we are here to support, must change as well. Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/28/sir-l...5/?ito=cbshare Last edited by LeatherTrumpet; 30-10-2020 at 06:11 PM. |
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30-10-2020, 06:25 PM | #2 | ||
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self defeating nonsense. will they still send black comedians?
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30-10-2020, 06:46 PM | #3 | |||
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Sir Lenny continued: ‘Investing in local talent across Africa to tell stories from their communities is great and a much-needed step forward but as always there is more that can be done. The energy and passion for change and new perspectives is there in bucket loads.’ African people don’t want us to tell their stories for them, what they need is more agency, a platform and partnership.’ |
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30-10-2020, 06:32 PM | #4 | |||
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This is quite sad
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30-10-2020, 06:34 PM | #5 | ||
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30-10-2020, 06:35 PM | #6 | ||
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The Stacey Dooley comment is completely inappropriate but stopping sending white celebs is just ridiculous.
Edit - Just read the complete article. Sounds fine to me. Last edited by Marsh.; 30-10-2020 at 08:16 PM. |
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30-10-2020, 06:45 PM | #7 | |||
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I dont think her comment was bad, possibly a tad insensitive because she was there to raise awareness but it wasn't near as bad as people made it seem.
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30-10-2020, 06:55 PM | #8 | |||
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Yes ... she’s always come across as a very caring person in her documentaries Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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30-10-2020, 07:10 PM | #9 | ||
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30-10-2020, 07:16 PM | #10 | |||
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...I just don’t think that any celebrities should be travelling to these countries and making a huge carbon footprint in doing so...when the charity should be supporting local filmmakers to film the stories their own way...
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30-10-2020, 07:20 PM | #11 | ||
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even if millions fewer watch and millions less is raised? thats a sacrifice worth making?
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30-10-2020, 07:19 PM | #12 | ||
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If such comments as his were made about any other group of people, the person would be labelled a racist, would lose their jobs and may even go to jail.
He is a disgrace and he not only proves himself to be a racist, but also to show he doesnt relaly care if this loses all those starving children millions from the unwanted whote people. He also doesnt go on to say whethere black celebrities should be allowed to visit. david lammy condemned white saviours and thats where this idiocy steam rolled. someone should have stood up to that idiot right at the start before this tragedy snowballs. Reverse racism does exist and racist, bigotry, xenophobia exists in every countries of the world between people of all colours and ethnicities and cultures and a lot of it is not the over simplistic white on black racism either. |
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30-10-2020, 07:21 PM | #13 | ||
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It's not racist to point out a "white saviour" trope, which is racist itself. Saying "but, but black people can be racist" makes no difference. |
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30-10-2020, 08:42 PM | #14 | |||
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I don't personally believe so, seems like a misstep to me.
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30-10-2020, 08:44 PM | #15 | ||
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Who said white people are banned from helping? They're moving away from celebrity films.
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30-10-2020, 06:41 PM | #16 | |||
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As if it will get them more money
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30-10-2020, 06:43 PM | #17 | |||
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Lets just scrap the whole sorry affair and concentrate on this country. As a country we have more than done our bit for that continent
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30-10-2020, 08:17 PM | #18 | |||
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I think the problem is it always became about getting the biggest celebs possible to do the short videos which kind of took away from the importance of them
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30-10-2020, 08:18 PM | #19 | ||
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Yeah, it became misery porn where half of the video was taken up with filming the celeb sobbing and it becoming more about their pity than the people and causes that it was about.
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30-10-2020, 08:21 PM | #20 | ||
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30-10-2020, 08:23 PM | #21 | |||
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...yeah, that was always the criticism anyway and it’s something that I’ve never been entirely comfortable with tbh...this way the celebrities can focus on the comedy/entertainment etc and which creates many donations...
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30-10-2020, 08:24 PM | #22 | ||
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30-10-2020, 08:26 PM | #23 | |||
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30-10-2020, 08:28 PM | #24 | |||
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I can remember an instance where Lenny went himself and was very emotionally overwhelmed but didn't do anything on camera and helped off camera then years later Ed Sheeran is buying a boy a house for the cameras
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30-10-2020, 08:34 PM | #25 | |||
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...this is what Richard Curtis said last year...
Speaking to MPs last year, Comic Relief co-founder Richard Curtis said the charity was moving away from celebrity-led fundraising films. He said it would be "very careful to give voices to people" who live in Africa. ...if a local film maker from an African country came here to film ‘local stories’...what they felt were local stories and representative../...not having any personal insight at all etc...?...we wouldn’t think that was a great plan either and much more the thing for it to be a local film maker to the area etc to make the film and decide on the stories etc...it just makes sense, how could it not... |
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