The muted response to Westwood allegations shows society still can’t empathise with black girls. ✍️ Whatever the results of the investigations, I want the public to instinctively rally behind the alleged victims. 🔵 kubared for ipaperviews
‘I hope the same anger over this issue extends to those who aren’t black women too,’ writes Kuba Shand-Baptiste
Like most supporting DJs at gigs, it wasn’t Westwood I was particularly excited to see. I might have forgotten his presence there, had something he told the girls in the crowd to do to themselves not stuck in my head. I won’t repeat the words here. But I do remember how they made me feel in the moment. Just a couple of rows back from the front of that stage, the facade that helped frame Westwood as some harmless, cheeky, older hip-hop head, had disappeared entirely for me.
Days later, Global, the radio company Westwood worked for when the allegations emerged, was accused of silencing staff by instructing them not to address the allegations across its stations, including LBC, Capital and Classic FM. Westwood denies all of the allegations, writing in a statement: “I can categorically say that I have never had an inappropriate relationship with anyone under the age of 18.
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