60 per cent of British films from the past 10 years featured no named black characters. Harewood said of the UK: “Racism and its effects still isn’t really understood here, and because our system is essentially a class-based system it gets swallowed up in that paradigm, as the working class will say, ‘Well, join the queue’.“It is a particularly different struggle, so it is very difficult to get people to acknowledge that there is a specificity to racism and how it affects people of colour in this country.”The Joe Wicks Podcast is available now on BBC Sounds.Additional reporting by Press Association You can find our Community Guidelines in full here.Are you sure you want to submit this vote?Are you sure you want to mark this comment as.
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