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The theme is comparisons – Hitler, Churchill, Iraq, war crimes law, and Iraq. [ register interest ] TV has too many ethnic minorities, says Ludovic Kennedy By Shirin Aguiar ONE of the BBC’s most distinguished former broadcasters was criticised yesterday for claiming there were too many black people on television.
Sir Ludovic Kennedy , 83, said that television in general had “more than its fair share of black participants”, compared with the actual proportion of ethnic minorities in the UK population. Sir Ludovic wrote: “I am all in favour of black advancement but there’s now hardly a TV pub, police station, soap, vox pop or ad without rather more than its fair share of black participation.” His remarks, in a book review in The Oldie magazine, were criticised last night.
A spokeswoman for the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) said: “It is sad to see a well-known author and commentator like Ludovic Kennedy so misunderstand the realities of modern multiracial Britain. “Black and Asian people are still distinctly, visibly and obviously disadvantaged.”
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , a journalist and writer, said that his comments were totally unacceptable. “There is no excuse for it at all,” she said. “I’m appalled and it just shows what real attitudes in the establishment are. To me it is nothing other than racism. We are moving forward, unlike old fogeys like him.” Trevor Phillips , ITV’s first black news presenter, said that Sir Ludovic’s comments were not true: “There are vast areas of TV which hardly ever see a black face.
Until quite recently you would be hard pushed to see an Asian on most news and current affairs programmes. When did you last see a Chinese person on any factual programme or drama?” Sir Ludovic has a reputation as a liberal campaigner through involvement with miscarriage of justice cases. His stance on race matters, however, has on occasions been at odds with his attitudes towards the legal system.
Two years ago he wrote in The Times in support of John Townend , a former Tory MP, who complained that “Commonwealth immigration” was undermining Britain’s “homogenous Anglo-Saxon society”. Sir Ludovic received support from an unexpected quarter last night. Raj Chandran, a former member of the CRE, said: “He may be right.
The profile of Asian and blacks is enough to make us wonder if we are living in England. “It gives an impression that we are overpowering ourselves with black and ethnic minority people.”