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Joaquin Phoenix BAFTA speech criticises ‘systemic racism’

While accepting the best actor award at the BAFTAs, Joaquin Phoenix drew attention to the fact that the list of nominees was all-white. ‘We send a very clear message to people of colour that “you’re not welcome here”… It is the obligation of the people who have created and benefit from the system of oppression to be the ones to dismantle it.’ Watch the speech here.

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