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Thread #140335   Message #3293247
Posted By: matt milton
20-Jan-12 - 06:18 AM
Thread Name: Do Brits remember George Formby?
Subject: RE: Do Brits remember George Formby?
The Frank Skinner programme was great - and shows that George Formby and his missus were the best kind of anti-racists, actually putting their money where their mouth was and confronting racist South Africans head-on (as far as a light entertainer/comedian in a foreign country can).

When you think of WHEN that was - a good few decades before toleration of Apartheid became utterly unacceptable in mainstream popular culture (eg The Specials 'Free Nelson Mandela', Spitting Image's 'I've Never Met a Nice South African') it goes to show that George Formby was a decent human with no time for that kind of disgusting inequality.