The National Front were openly calling for non whites to be ‘repatriated’ to the country of their ethnic origin, even if they and their parents had been born here. The term Nig Nog was used in TV comedies without raising eyebrows, the police quite openly treated black people differently and far right political parties didn’t feel the need to disguise their racism as standing up for British values. In the 1970s racism wasn’t as subtle as it often is today. Utilising archive footage, modern and contemporary interviews, this film looks back on a Britain forty years ago which viewed through twenty first century eyes, seems like another continent. White Riot is the Story of Rock Against Racism and how a handful of music lovers motivated a cultural backlash against the rising tide of racism and fascism in the late seventies.
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