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TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert to vote for Enoch Powell to stop Britain from becoming “a black colony”, to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouted “Keep Britain White”. Rock Against Racism was formed, in response.

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