Sir Lenny Henry welcomes Comic Relief’s decision to stop filming celebrities in disadvantaged African countries
Comic Relief videos are typically filmed on the ground in disadvantaged African countries with celebrities, who are often white, usually seen meeting local children to highlight poverty.Welcoming the move to stop the campaign films, Sir Lenny said: ‘A lot has changed over Comic Relief’s 35 years, and so the way we raise money and talk about the issues we are here to tackle, and the people we are here to support, must change as well.
The comedian, who co-founded Comic Relief in 1985 with filmmaker Richard Curtis, added that he was ‘proud’ the charity are making the changes and he is ‘looking forward to seeing the films next year’.Sir Lenny continued: ‘Investing in local talent across Africa to tell stories from their communities is great and a much-needed step forward but as always there is more that can be done. The energy and passion for change and new perspectives is there in bucket loads.
Labour MP David Lammy hit out at the star and tweeted: ‘The world does not need any more white saviours.
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Shouldn’t send black celebs either. I would rather listen to the people on the ground doing the work.
DavidLammy must be really pleased with his work...
Good it’s about time tbh
Turn it in!!
I agree with most people, if white people ain't good enough our money isn't either.
Shouldn't matter if the celebrity is purple with green spots, if they are willing to give there time to promote a charity to do some good does it really matter. Seems in the past 2 years we've gone back 40 years in race relations and division... Thanks to PC and fake wokeness🙄
Quite
It never even crossed my mind once about being a white saviour, but seeing that Sir Lenny feels this way, I’ll keep my money and no doubt there will be thousands of white people reading this thinking the same.. a real shame I didn’t realise that giving was a colour orientated
I’m sure Lenny will still get the holidays though. Check the date on this tweet...
Haha 😆
Lenny can top up the funds with his millions. I'm not donating now.
That is an insult. Bet they will still want the money coming in from white people.
Well I won't be giving him my money then because it's come from a white person
1st funny thing he’s ever come up with
Don't want whote money then eh' Lenny Fine lets see the pounds drop!
Isn’t pointing out their white racism? Can’t have it bath ways
🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Won't be getting any of my white pounds!
He does realise the UK is a mostly white country ?
That's okay then, this 'white saviour' will no longer support this racist chatity and I'll give my charity money to another non racist charity. Stand up to the 'anti white bullies' Mr Henry swapping one kind of racism for another will only cause problems.
What a disgrace and inward looking! BUT still give, those in need should not suffer due to the stupidity of a few!
So white people won’t give money anymore then
Happy to take white people's money.
I dare say there's going to be a huge drop in the amount of money raised if the colour of our skin means that if we donate people like lenny will call use virtue signalling 'white saviours'. Talk about insulting!
Excellent. Now if we can permanently remove Stacey Dooley from the telly, that'd be great.
If white celebs go to Africa it shows whites do care about black people so why not turn uk white to care for white people and blacks only care for blacks etc makes no sense I won’t be donating to comic relief if sir Lenny does this
Thank god they made the decision for them, it’s not like they have their own agency and can accept or deny aid on behalf of themselves.
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Okay. Don’t want white celebs to take part don’t expect white people to donate
This is getting worse by the day... It’s all so obvious now!
Won’t be needing ‘white donations’
the answer to this situation is simple.....white people should stop donating to poor African children...then maybe then sir lenny and all the other black racists will be happy to see their people starve...
Ffs
Thanks for the heads up from former comic Lenny Henry 🙏 I was going to give it a miss this year anyway 👋👋👋
And oh!Sorry Sir Henry you ain’t getting a penny from me after this...
I'm sorry.........since when was it Lenny's charity, lots of people started it up with him.
What’s the point is sending ‘celebrities’ whatever colour?I guess they don’t have a clue who they are either?
Seems racist to me. Anyway comic relief contributions have plummeted since Lammy said Africa didn’t need ‘white saviours’
How about only black people help Africa? No more white money or white peoples time & help.
Shouldn't be paying any celebs to go there. That money should be going to help
Does he still want “white” money though, would that be ok? I wouldn’t want to offend him, I think I’ll donate to the local hospice instead.
Really ...?
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