“This is what change looks like, and I am so proud to be standing here,” says Bafta winner AshleyBanjo baftas ashleybanjo Diversity
And Banjo’s powerful acceptance speech, which he made alongside his brother, Jordan, has gone down an absolute storm on Twitter.Thanking all those who “stood by us” during the furore, Banjo said: “It was a dark time but that support made a difference and in a way I have to say thank you to the people who complained, the people who put all that abuse out there online.“But for all those people, take a look… this is what change looks like, and I am so proud to be standing here.
Banjo concluded powerfully: “For me, this is about not representing the minority. It felt like we weren’t at the time, but standing here now, this represents the majority, so thank you all so much. “Let’s keep having those difficult conversations, let’s keep standing up for what’s right regardless of the colour of our skin and we will achieve that equality.”It’s worth noting that Ofcom rejected the complaints it received about Diversity’s Black Lives Matter routine, issuing a statement that said: “We carefully considered a large number of complaints about this artistic routine, an area where freedom of expression is particularly important.
“Diversity’s performance referred to challenging and potentially controversial subjects, and in our view, its central message was a call for social cohesion and unity. Any depictions of violence by the performers were highly stylised and symbolic of recent global events, and there was no explicit reference to any particular political organisation – but rather a message that the lives of black people matter.
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