BBC Radio host DJ Sideman announced that he’s quitting the team following a reporter’s use of the n-word in a news segment. The BBC Radio 1xtra host, whose real name is David Whitely, …
Radio host DJ Sideman announced that he’s quitting the team following a reporter’s use of the n-word in a news segment. The BBC Radio 1xtra host, whose real name is David Whitely, announced his departure from BBC in an Instagram post.
“I just don’t feel comfortable being aligned with the organization,” Whitely, who is Black, said in the social media video posted Saturday. “I can’t make sense of it no matter how much I think about it. So I think it’s time that I’ve left.”to recount a violent crime.
Since airing the video late July, the BBC received more than 18,600 complaints about the reporter’s use of the racial slur. While the BBC said that it will not the air segment again in its current form, Whitely shared network’s approval to televise the video segment on live television deeply disturbed him.
“The BBC sanctioning the n-word said on national television by a white person is something I can’t rock with,” he said. “This feels like more than getting it wrong. The action and the defense of the action feels like a slap in the face of our community.”
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