Blue Too - ACE405.3

Sambo gets a job in an office where "he could not understand why everyone kept on calling him John", and "always had lots more than anyone else to do". He finds a piece of paper which (according to Goddard as newsreader) announces changes to television programming "to form a new schedule more suitable for our Commonwealth friends") and including programmes such as "Khan and Ball" and "Singh Something Simple". Sambo gets himself a smart suit. He talks about seeing Mike but ignoring him. Animation and live action of Sambo looking for accommodation: the usual response is "No coloureds", but one woman rents him a small room. He starts to relax with a joint but is disturbed by episode of TV sitcom, Love Thy Neighbour (1972-1976) (intervention by Hubert Thompson shouting black and white phrases) and starts dreaming about a party political broadcast (Graham Luck) on behalf of the "Send ’Em Back Party" – images of Ku Klux Klan superimposed. Sambo remembering how he used to watch television with his father. Second extract from a Love Thy Neighbour episode in which Eddie insists, much to Bill’s amusement, that Al Jolson was black. Goddard starts talking about "the first day that Sambo went to school…". Montage including extract from animated version of Little Black Sambo (1935), and other animated caricatures of black people, street sign for Black Boy Lane, KKK, racist graffiti, black-face singers, etc., Vitaphone announcement of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1928). Black sportsmen and women, entertainers. Margaret Thatcher on the need to trade with South Africa to help breakdown Apartheid, Enoch Powell, race riots. Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Soweto. Little girl (Sara Allen) talking about seeing black children homeless and hungry on television.