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Sir Trevor McDonald struggles to remember many instances of racism
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Looking back over his almost six decades in journalism, a career in which he became one of the most famous black faces on British television, Sir Trevor McDonald struggles to remember many instances of racism.
“No, I can’t complain about great suffering myself,” he says. Then he does recall one. “One of my editors told me, long after the incident, that someone called him up when I started doing
News at Ten, saying ‘What’s that black guy doing reading the news?’”
Still, McDonald, now 81, need only compare his experience with that of his children – Jack, 31, from his second marriage, and Tim and Joanne with first wife, Beryl – to see the progress that has been made.
On the face of it, the actor Noel Clarke certainly seems like an obnoxious creep. More than 20 women, many former colleagues, have come forward to accuse him of a variety of sexual improprieties, ranging in seriousness from a pat on the bottom to recording and sharing explicit images.
We all know the kind. Lord knows I’ve come cross a few in my time. Good-looking, charismatic, confident, successful men who think they’re God’s gift to women. The idea that anyone might find their advances unwelcome rarely, if ever, crosses their mind.
The more successful they become, the more invincible they feel. They start to believe that the normal rules don’t apply to them. It’s not just a problem in the movie industry – it exists in all walks of life, from politics to business and beyond.