Idris Elba Nails Diversity

[davidgillon]

This is one of the best speeches on diversity I've ever seen, though specifically aimed at diversity in the creative arts, and he delivered it to Parliament

I'm not here to talk about black people;

 

I’m here to talk about diversity.

And he keeps up that refrain throught the speech, that diversity is about everyone having an equal chance, and that it is far wider an issue than simply race.

Not bad for a tyre fitter from Dagenham ;)

(For non-Brits, the 'Oona' in the speech is presumably Baroness Oona King, the second ever black woman MP - until she was unseated by that unspeakably self-serving arsehole George Galloway in one of the most calculatedly racist campaigns on record)

Comments

[sasha_feather]

I really liked it too. I didn't know about his going to a disabled school.