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Sir Trevor Phillips has attacked the BBC for censoring the N-word in Bob Dylan’s anti-racism protest song Hurricane.
The former race equality chief said it was ‘incredibly patronising’ of the BBC to let black artists on urban radio station 1Xtra use the word, but then censor other musicians.
He described the decision of Radio 6 Music bosses to edit out a line of the Dylan song featuring the word as ‘absurd and insulting’.
Sir Trevor Phillips has attacked the BBC for censoring the N-word in Bob Dylan’s anti-racism protest song Hurricane
The song, about the boxer Rubin Carter, who was wrongly convicted of murder, had the line ‘and for the black folks he was just a crazy n*****’ removed when it was broadcast on Tom Robinson’s 6 Music show, Now Playing, on April 24.
The song, about the boxer Rubin Carter, who was wrongly convicted of murder, had the line ‘and for the black folks he was just a crazy n*****’ removed when it was broadcast on Tom Robinson’s 6 Music show, Now Playing, on April 24.
But one indignant listener – who had noticed that station’s bosses had ‘deftly omitted’ a line from the song without telling the audience – contacted
