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\"Cultureteca<\/a><\/p>\n

Idris Elba\u00a0Delivers Keynote Speech to UK Parliament on Diversity in the Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amid the ongoing controversy over the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards – with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominating only white actors for the second year running<\/a>\u00a0– Idris Elba spoke before parliament in the United Kingdom on Monday on the theme of diversity<\/a>. Asking for help in the endeavour to ‘redesign the face of British TV’, he lamented ‘a disconnect\u00a0between the real world and TV world’, describing his own struggles being typecast as a black actor in Britain, which encouraged him to forge his career instead in the United States. Elba said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

‘I’m not here to talk about black people;\u00a0I\u2019m here to talk about diversity.\u00a0Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin colour. It\u2019s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I\u2019m concerned \u2013 diversity of thought.\u00a0Because if you have genuine diversity of thought among people making TV and film, then you won\u2019t accidentally shut out any of the groups I just mentioned.’<\/em><\/p>\n