Calling himself a 'survivor', he says he is 'here because a handful of people used their power and their privilege to help me.'
He recalled that as he was starting his career in TV"thousands of other black and brown men and women were giving up on our industry.
"Between 2006 and 2012, BAME employment in UK TV declined by 30.9%. That means more black people left the industry than joined, at a time when the overall number of jobs in the industry as a whole was expanding." He described Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees as"every producer's dream interviewee" following the toppling of the city's statue of slave trader Edward Colston in June", because of his years working behind the camera at the BBC in Bristol.Historian and broadcaster, David Olusoga says racism has cost the TV industry a 'lost generation' of talent
"The talents of the black guy who now runs a city were seemingly invisible to the people who then ran the newsroom," he said. "What are the consequences of the haemorrhaging of such talent? Well, it was the same newsroom in Bristol, that last month decided that it was acceptable for a white reporter to use the 'N' word in a news report, leading to almost 20,000 complaints and an official apology by the Director General."
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