The World at One today ended with a piece of verse by Benjamin Zephaniah. It was full of rhyming platitudes and slogans and Black Lives Matter talking points, and included such lines as:
The time is coming when those who divide us will be judged by us. We will rise up and demand a true history, true democracy and true racial equality.
What interested me about it was what it says about Radio 4, for this is how Jonny Dymond introduced it:
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech back in August, we asked the poet Benjamin Zephaniah to re-imagine that address for the time of Black Lives Matter. As we start a new year, we thought we would again bring you that message of hope for racial equality going forward.
So why did The World at One bring it back from last August and gave it such importance today, New Year's Day? Were they ostentatiously 'taking the knee' towards Black Lives Matter again?
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