Very good point.
I do sort of understand why race relations in America are the way they are, and how they differ from the UK. However it still makes me feel uncomfortable when an essentially white-dominated media industry feels it needs to tip-toe around these issues and has to hire a black performer because they feel…

I should have probably tidied it up a bit, but he was responding to specific questions that somebody had asked, so he was kind of all over the place. I just felt that his overall points were related to this announcement.

It certainly isn't Indians. They are very well integrated into society, especially in London. Pakistanis and probably Muslims in general are probably slightly more analogous, but what that guy was saying wasn't that there is NO racism over here, but it's just different. And that's why I find this announcement slightly…

I'll quote him summation too.

As a Brit, I find this story very strange (and moreover the general attitude in America towards race.) It reeks of tokenism and just makes me feel slightly uncomfortable, especially ever since it was announced that SNL were on the lookout for a black, female cast member, like it was some tick box on some list they had…