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Transcripts For ALJAZ Studio B Unscripted 20240711

Access to british fishing waters would be reduced the European Union have been saying no that is not going to be a problem there is somewhere we can meet in the middle but perhaps a bigger problem is the idea of unfair competition european diplomats have been Briefing Journalists that several countries not just france but belgium spain denmark and so on have been unhappy about the prospect of Michel Barnier giving ground on the rules of what they call the level Playing Field on state aid for example to British Companies and also on what say what happens if one side wants to move away from the common standards on workers rights on Environmental Standards and the like so these are clearly sticking points it will be seen by some people as good news that the talks are going to resume on sunday negotiators being asked to get back together in brussels on sunday and sort of underlying and Boris Johnson talking again on monday lots of people did predict that in fact the whole file would be handed over to the political leaders before any ratification but if there is to be such a deal it has to be done in the next few days because it has to be signed off by the British Parliament and by the European Parliament theres an e. U. Summit on thursday and friday theyll want to know the exact details as well and even if they have got a deal on paper its going to be very difficult a big challenge to get it pushed through by december 31st theres talk that in fact it might be have to be put in place provisionally without the European Parliament greenlighting it. Russia has begun its large scale covert 1000 Vaccination Program medical workers and teachers are 1st in line for the sputnik v. Vaccine the plan is to inoculate 2000000 russians this month but some scientists are warning the process has been rushed the leader of ethiopia seagrave region says his fighters are still battling Government Forces locally to say government soldiers have bombed one town while fighting is under way outside the regional capital haley by minister declared victory a week ago u. S. President Donald Trumps in georgia campaigning for 2 republicans in one office that will decide which Party Controls the senate this is traumas 1st political rally since losing the president ial election the candidates will face off next month this is something thats very important and you have to get out you have to vote you have to make sure you have every vote counted everybody has to. Because if they can this election is control of the u. S. Senate and that really means control of this country the voters of georgia will determine which party runs every committee writes every piece of legislation controls every single taxpayer dollar saudi arabias foreign minister says its allies involved in them posing the blockade against qatar are on board to find a surprise a new ship to the gulf crisis earlier the image of kuwait said he was pleased with how the talks have been progressing and that sentiment has been echoed by the Qatari Foreign minister mohammad and on the home on. More than 30 people have been arrested in paris after a protest against Police Brutality turned violent but he said the protests was mostly peaceful but turned violent after 500 people described as rioters joined the event. Divines Space Agency Says its retrieved its capsule carrying samples from an asteroid after a successful landing in the australian outback the Mission Began with the launch of the habits of 2 spacecraft 6 years ago japanese scientists hope the sample could provide clues to the origin of the solar system those are the headlines and news continues here on aljazeera after studio b. Unscripted good buy. When you play for england i was never really going to be as accepted is my. Name was and why race is not an opinion when racism is an ideology thats fundamentally olds without Democratic Values you know if youre not upsetting people you dont seem. To. Want are all i know. My name is any honor and you care. Im the sporting director of Aston Villa Women Football Club i used to be a strikeout one of them well the shots all the time. And im also a media commentator. I have worked in human rights and development ive worked as a barrister a journalist an academic and a writer if always hardest to diagnoses of them in polite circles in britain because we covered it my name is a for her. I grew up in london but my mothers family is originally from ghana i was born in nigeria but came to the u. K. As a baby and grew up in birmingham ive read any of those memoir about how passion for football since she was a young girl. She was at the top of her career as a successful strike when she was dropped from the England National team after speaking out against racism. Into a man played be done gigi comes from the community after 11 years of playing i think it takes a lot of courage and determination to do that i know that africa has struggled. Has your life density because shes of mixed heritage i spent my whole life wondering if this was really my country shes even moved to africa twice to connect with a culture shes also written amazing book about it so im curious to compare our personal experiences and our sense of belonging to. Africa is a part of both and me but we also british and black women so we have more than a few things in common but were actually quite different. Any other there were so many things in your book which i very personally related oh im so happy i loved it i love the i thought it was so on earth and sun revealing because i followed your career in real time and i thought i knew the story of what happened but actually i discovered there was so much that i didnt know but the 1st thing i wanted to ask you about was the way you talk about identity and you use the phrase hyphenated identities to talk about your british nigerian background how you reconcile that relationship now because its obviously 2 very different lives that youve lived one in nigeria and one in birmingham where you grew up obviously writing the book is quite a reflective process so i really started to think about what how did i feel about myself when i was younger i was a popular kid you know i played football the boys loved me because i was running rings around them but actually it was a girl i was trying to be a boy the whole time there is this photo of you in your book with him that you have he was quite young like so happy to be out here and really figure i want to the boy was like that was just biggest tomboy but actually the. I break that down i asked the boys to call me eddie i didnt want them to call me any which was my nigerian name and i actually love my nigerian name i love my name in your honor but put all of that i shut up for a long time and didnt actually want to explore and then theres all that stuff about actually when you play for england youre supposed to be as english as they come you know youre wearing the badge literally bar my names any other luko so i was never really going to be as accepted as my strike a counterpart his name was and why. And now im very much somebody that loves being a nigerian woman so the concept of hyphenated identity in my head was all about this constant balancing act that we have to do i love rich tea biscuits and lots of british stuff but i also love to draw for us. So we shouldnt read it we should embrace it or ive heard black british people doing such Creative Things with hyphens you know with but we often call ourselves black british british nigerian british command ive even heard someone refer to themselves as a 1st saxon which i thought ok i like their creative but theres always this question should we need to hyphenate you know weve spent all our lives in britain you were playing for england and i think if you ask a lot of english people what is the ultimate representation or symbol of englishness many of them would point to the Football Team i mean for me for me growing up that was an image of englishness and for me at the time in the england team was very white and england fans were very white and it was one of those things that made me feel excluded from the idea that i could be english and i think its no coincidence we often call ourselves british or black british if they were very rare to hear a person color say in describing themselves as english did you feel that this team has often represented quite a white idea of englishness was no longer going to be so much and because you are it and other but they are and when youre playing football you know thats the beauty of football its kind of if youre talented youre in. And you dont think about you dont have to think about identity until you get a bit older and you realize if youre playing badly thats when media starts saying all nigerian born and they start becoming the other so when you do well youre britain where when you die youre the nigerian lover and youre not doing so well youre kind of and thats the kind of dark side of sport and its not just exclusive to me its meant to in a measure of those of us most famously stuck speaking about it you know. And he said when im winning work up some german when we lose and we do very badly im turkish reading your book i felt as if you really went on a journey where you started questioning things along the way but you were always very reserved in judgment and gave give people the benefit of the doubt the other way you describe things i think that speaks to my desperation in a way to just be accepted as being as footballers you just want to play football and that becomes a culture of just play football you know and so i used to dumb down my intelligence a lot and the questions that pop up obliged to ask but put the ball in the back of the net you know and it dates back to you know what i was saying earlier about just wanting to be one of the boys are you speak about it in your book you know at one point you wanted people to call you caroline but it like my middle name is caroline and i remember very clearly when i was 6 and i changed schools in my 6 year old mind i said to my friends this is a chance for a new start i am no longer going to start again were going to get a simple im carol i am you know i was literally trying to rebrand myself but why was that. I think that partly its an inherent issue if you dont look like either of your parents so my mother came to the tape from ghana when she was 12 and shes a black woman from majority Black Country and i dont think she had a particularly racialized identity as youll know if youre african from an african country race is not your primary identify its your region or your religion or your ethnic group real language but everyones blacks not a thing and my father is why but i think as a small child you notice that you dont look like either of your parents and thats not necessarily a bad thing but it is just a thing and then in my case it was compounded by the fact that there werent any other people around me who looked like me and i remember told a story that parents when my sister was born shes 5 years younger than me the 1st thing i said when i saw who is that she looked like me. And that was the 1st time my parents realized that i wasnt expecting to ever see someone who was i thought that no one else did look like me because that was the environment i grew up in my father also has this immigration story his father was a jewish child refugee from germany but within a generation he dissimulated into britishness you know he married an english lady my grandmother i dont think anyone ever asked my father or their siblings his siblings growing up about you know his immigration status or what the impact of their immigration had been in britain or where he was really from but my mother because of my mothers heritage that people ask those very questions about me its that visible blackness that makes you really british you must have another story right and my logic was well if its because of my mother that people treat me differently then if i go to my mothers country then ill all solve all my problems are just going to garner and be going to and i live happily ever after and so its a little bit of a shock to the system well the 1st thing that happened when i went and i thought i was going suddenly thin is that gun in school me which means white person in nigeria or you will i think all that is that interior. And i was horrified i was saying they dont understand in britain they said im black. Now im hurt and i dont know me why thats not theres nothing you can do about that and ive spent lots more time in gone i understand you know to a good man i represent. A european upbringing its not even so much about my mixed race heritage its more about my social conditioning and i have to acknowledge that and also theres a level of color privilege that comes out of a history of colonialism that there is privilege that people of european heritage get in african countries so not to acknowledge that would be to benefit from that privilege or understanding what it means and the damage it still does but the other thing is there that was in school i used to you know i went to prominently white school and the girls that picked on me were actually black tobin and they used to say you know african butu in the state make up my big lips and pull my hair in and one of them is mixed race for pretty girl i used to think you know sometimes used to think life would be so much easier if i was mixed i dont want to be that and i dont want to be that just want to be in the middle you know and so there is that there is that sense of you know colorism and and you know we have it in other races too is a big emphasis on the color you know the actual color and the shades and where that ranks and i think there is still often a tendency to if theres an Advertising Campaign news a mixed race model someone of jill heritage with lighter skin and curly hair and it is almost the acceptable face the blackness but the 1st time i had to go on are just going back to that story the other thing that happened to me was that i said to my mother who was black and i remember exactly what i meant because the immigration officials obviously were black theres a framed photo of the president on the wall he was black the police were black the Army Officers were black the pilots were black and my mother also said that was the 1st time shed realized that i did not live in a world. Where black people wore suits were in power were at the top on the bottom and i hadnt i didnt know i was missing that until i saw it you dont even realize how much you internalize the idea of what power looks like its still on usual to see somebody who is black in a position of real power i mean look weve never had a black Prime Minister weve never had a black judge in the Supreme Court theres only one black person in the c. 100 as a c. E. O. There has been so little progress compared to what i think many people expected with. It you know this is theres all these bus words about Diversity Inclusion but do you feel like diversity and inclusion has just become that deliberate attempts to try and please rather than actually it changing what we see in terms of power i do worry about that when you have one or 2 black people or people of color in the room but that hasnt been the cultural change that allows their voices to really be heard or theyre in such minority or not a position of enough power to really challenge the status quo then it doesnt change the output it doesnt change the culture doesnt change the Decision Making and then to add insult to injury that person to be wheeled out if something goes wrong having one person in the room who maybe put appreciates that nuance is not enough you need to have what would you know then is is the way to change it i think we need to be more radical in our approach and often ive seen this generation who are absolutely no nonsense i have to say and a lot more on a polygenic in their approach just. Taking a different route starting up their own organizations and their own movements and really creating that Critical Mass of this generation they hold internet press conferences not just you know it is a cousin of the language of social media and Global Networks to organize to mobilize and really create campaigns that make change and i for 1 am so impressed by that and energized by yeah i mean its fun thank you renee lets find out what you guys yes any questions so my question relates to the scandal into the caribbean people that have been deported and denied citizenship despite having lived in britain or their lives but also to the conservative cabinet and in particular to the ethnic minority members whove done absolutely nothing to help so i just want to know is there a case for arguing that racism and systemic disadvantage cant be dismantled without 1st addressing issues of class i agree i think classes is a separate conversation from race ive been in situations where ive been the 1st to do 2 to do it and that is pressure in itself but then you get the expectation of all well what about us its like well give me a chance to you know figure out how going to change this 1st so its not easy but the agenda should always be to think about how you can open the door for others that look like you i dont think the wind rushing could have happened to people who were not both black and working class you know there are middle class people who could have been affected but they had the ability to hire lawyers or get professional advice to prevent them from being deported and this really systematically targeted people who were excluded from those systems of power because of race and class but i think that the last concern. The government was particularly hostile as weve seen read to me there is nothing more profound than rounding up and deporting british people if you have told me that would have happened 10 years ago i dont know the code of believed it its just type in but i also think that black people w

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