Don Lets and Sideman on Bob Marley, BLM and protest music

David Whitely, also known as 'Sideman' is a musician, filmmaker and BBC 1Xtra presenter. DJ Don Letts is film director, DJ and musician, who spent time with Bob Marley when he played in London.

The conversation is lively, there’s some language which may offend.

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[DomhnallOSuileabhainPrin-tmfw]

Channel 4 News is an anti white propaganda show. A real news channel would be honest and know that so called racism in the west is at least as black as it is white and compared with African racism (which the BBC always calls tribalism) and Asian racism, which is really in your face, the west is a model society. Why do all these poor discriminated blacks risk life and limb trying to sneak into the west? We know the answer and we also know the fake racist news agenda is created by the most racist and anti white group on earth: zionists.

[realthings]

If a statue is only offensive to a minority and taking it down is offensive to the majority, then should we take the statue down?

[rickylee]

There is no chance of black icons getting their own statue when the media can't even be bothered to spell their name right.

[Doe]

No it's not it to glorify gang violence that's what most music is all about

[fredo]

So what are his opinions on Gangsta Rap on the minds of impressionable youth?

[stoneroses]

Great video. Channel 4 sharing more racial awareness.

[marleyofficialmedia]

Yes!!!! Well spoken and passionate brothers. Thank you!

[KentRoads]

What misteaching of history is he referring to? You seem to have not been taught that british people paid off the release of every slave, and only paid it off in 2014. £180 billion.

[jaymills]

Bob Marley, Michael Jackson. Icons who injected love into peoples live through music.

Celebrate who you are, not the people who put you down.

[kingsleyunoguozirigbo]

Biafra say no to British colonialism, freedom for Biafra

[zoraq]

Oh god...look who they've wheeled out. Two professional grifters who've turned an incidental physical characteristic into a lucrative career.
Pass!!

[Bryiano]

Are you sure it’s not education or is that too hard?

[fabrizio]

I'm getting increasingly bored with all this stuff... It's like the more you talk about it, the less I care about it.

[tpower]

Did that man seriously just compare the Empire that ended slavery worldwide to the Fourth Reich?

[jackcurry]

Channel 4, stirring race issues where none exists....

[emm_arr]

I was sitting at home the other month (that's lockdown for you!) wondering if the world was due another revival of ska and rocksteady. I think it is.

[forzabowe]

Forget the celebs, they don’t make the world go around

[kingsleyunoguozirigbo]

White should drop the hate and tell their children truth

[emm_arr]

A white supremacist has actually posted this: "I m a bit like a white Mandela."
A legend in his own febrile mind!

[leedaniels]

Too shy...from Kajagoogoo says it all.