Judith Kiros: Adam Tensta is not responsible for TV4′s emblematic anti-racism – Today’s News

     
     
     
 
 
     
 

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“Tensta got to TV4 to protest against a kind of symbolic anti-racism that unfortunately we have become accustomed,” writes DN’s Judith Kiros of the artist’s high-profile exit from the TV studio.

                 
             

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

“Tensta got to TV4 to protest against a kind of symbolic anti-racism that unfortunately we have become accustomed,” writes DN’s Judith Kiros of the artist’s high-profile exit from the TV studio.

The rapper Adam Tensta rose from TV4 Nyhetsmorgons sofa, took a sip of water and walked calmly out of the studio with the words: “Good luck with the shipment.” The reason was simple – he wanted to draw attention to the fact that TV4 had booked into a YouTube profile that had expressed itself racist about black. TV4 then do this while they use the slogan of Zero Racism, said Tensta, made the situation even more problematic.

Right away then came criticism. On Twitter, said Expressen’s Niklas Svensson Tensta should have “stopped, criticized and declared”. Viveca Hansson, Program Director at TV4, said it was “a shame” that the Tensta not wanted to stay and discuss structural racism in the studio. Missed the discussions and explanations of the problem in May, when TV4 has repeatedly held to account for their booking including on social media and left the site Politism?

 
        
             

     
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Tensta did not come to the studio to once again explain the problem, but to protest against a kind of symbolic anti-racism that unfortunately we have become accustomed. He was there to, as he wrote in an article in Aftonbladet (15/7), remind TV4 that people who are not white “are, we see and we feel”. The words, which may seem so obvious, may also have a provocative effect – almost as provocative as seeing a black man get up and close down debate.

We are writes Tensta. We can direct us to one another. We can stand up for each other.
We can even ride us out couches and walk out of a studio for each other.

Photo text: Eva Tedesjö