KEHINDE ANDREWS, PROFESSOR OF“Black Studies” at City University, Birmingham, has made a name for himself as the go-to talking head for punchy racial culture war debates on British TV. Once, on the BBC programme The Big Questions, Andrews and I were invited to discuss why “white working-class boys” were underperforming in education.
Rather than seek to understand the socio-economic challenges of this demographic, Andrews argued that the claim perpetuated racist pseudoscience. Another time, I debated with him on ITV’s Good Morning Britain about whether Rule
Britannia should be banned from the Proms. Unsurprisingly, Andrews accused the song of being wayciss.
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