I do not think MP David Lammy was wrong about his Comic Relief/Stacey Dooley's so called 'white saviour' photo comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-43387069/david-lammy-on-the-image-of-africa-shown-by-comic-relief
I feel that many seem to have seen what David Lammy said as a bad thing because I presume people may have seen what he said to be an attack on Comic Relief rather than the fact it seems to promote the belief that African countries/states are no more than staring people who need the nice English to save them.
I suspect I do not support David Lammy on many of the things he says, but on this I do.
The problem is, everyone speaks from there on viewpoint on this. This means no one is really wrong. It is a bit like 10000 people stood around a tree. Everyone will describe the tree from there own viewpoint. No one will be wrong, but everyone will give a different description
I am white, but was born in Zambia in the 1970's. .Over my life when people talk to me about Africa (most see Africa as a single country), the view they have is that it is full of starving people living in poverty.
Like many large charities, one wonders how much of the money Comic Relief raises is sieved off, and not goes to those who need it.
The point I would suggest David Lammy is making, is that such as the BBC does not seem to have many MP's or academics or even anyone from any African countries being interviewed interviewed.
Some have stated that they have Lenny Henry, as the token African person to represent Africa. This completely missing the point. It is not about someones color, but the fact if they are African or not. Indeed African representatives may be White Africans. Lenny Henry is English, he was born in England. He cannot represent Africa, no more than Stacey Dooley can represent any African country.
The problem is, this does sound like a lot of left ring people banging on about political correctness again. And I too hate that guff too.
And Afua Hirsch does make some good points on: https://youtu.be/OujZLJY7Q9k
The problem is that this has come across as Black people angry at White people, rather than simply pointing out that the point that was trying to be made was, African countries ALSO need a positive imagine, and not just, the poor Africa that needs saving image.
I was listening to one chap on the radio, and he said (it made me giggle), that people would rather think Aliens had built the pyramids, as that was more realistic in peoples minds in the west, than to think that Africans could have built them.
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