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The Race Spies (Black & White)

@racespy2000.bsky.social

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In 1998 two men, one black and one white, went undercover in Leeds to reveal racism. Find out what they discovered and how their voices were silenced. www.racespies.com

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Morning resisters!

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is me - 25 years ago - asking a very stupid question, it turns out... racespies.com

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The first task Kevin & I undertook when we arrived in Leeds, was to test the local rental market for signs of racial discrimination. While we found no overt vocal racism, there was clear discrimination.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Kevin offered to get some drinks in. I often carried a disposable camera. I took the shot below. What happened next has stayed with me...

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Here's a story from my time undercover in Leeds recording Black and White. One evening we headed to a bar in an area of town with a significant afro-carribean community. I was the only white guy in the bar.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Cowardly Labour Home Secretary completely ignores soaring levels of attacks on mosques - 40% of which involved British flags. Below - Original article: Chris Osuh, The Guardian Sat 8 Nov 2025

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Has the BBC now been fully captured by the right? Here are the existing board members, as of Saturday. Now Tim Davie has gone - accused of being left wing, but previously Chair of the Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Association. The only TV executive shown here, has just resigned.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

If you want to be entertained and learn some history around the US civil war period, I can highly recommend JAMES - by Percival Everett. Also recommended by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Here are the women that really opened my eyes. After 3 months of undercover work and struggling with my own lack of emotional understanding, I finally understood that racism isn't experienced as isolated incidents, it's an all pervasive reality of negativity and distrust from childhood onwards.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If anyone is in any doubt about the level of bile thrown at anyone who raises the hoary head of white British racism in public, our instagram account has just been suspended. Absolutely no explanation.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

White mother of black daughter shares her daughter's experiences of being racially abused. This is not unusual in Britain.

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The Race Spies (Black & White) @racespy2000.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Black and White was broadcast over 3 weeks in Feb/March 1999. By then, the BBC, the Independent Production Team and the two investigators were in conflict, with the investigators silenced by legal threats.

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