‘I need to say this as one of the only black people on the show’: Andi Peters interrupts GMB segment to make emotional plea to viewers to continue Black Lives Matter discussions
Good Morning Britain star Andi Peters interrupted his segment on the show on Friday to make an emotional plea to viewers about Black Lives Matter.
The show stalwart, 49, took a break from announcing a competition in his home garage to urge fans to continue discussing the movement and insisted he needed to make the plea as ‘one of the only black people on the show’.
He said: ‘We’ve all started this conversation and one of the best things about Good Morning Britain is that we talk about it – we’re not brushing it under the rug, we’re not tip-toeing around, we are talking about it.’
Reaching out: Good Morning Britain star Andi Peters interrupted his segment on the show on Friday to make an emotional plea to viewers about Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world last month after George Floyd was killed in police custody in May.
Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after a video surfaced of him crushing 46-year-old Floyd’s neck with his knee in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In the segment on Friday, Andi said: ‘I just want to say something as I can, as one of the only black people on this show, it is so important that we all keep talking. It really is. People meet me in the street and ask me how I feel about it.
‘We’ve all started this conversation and one of the best things about Good Morning Britain is that we talk about it – we’re not brushing it under the rug, we’re not tip-toeing around, we are talking about it.
Reaching out: The show stalwart, 49, took a break from announcing a competition in his home garage to urge fans to continue discussing the movement and insisted he needed to make the plea as ‘one of the only black people on the show’
Killed: Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world last month after George Floyd was killed in police custody in May
‘Every day on this programme we are talking about it and it’s really important that we do. Every black kid watching right now – you could do this job…
‘Anyway, let me tell you about this prize… Sorry, I felt that I needed to say it. I shouldn’t apologise, I mustn’t apologise – I just wanted to say it.’
Last month, Andi’s GMB co-star Alex Beresford spoke candidly about his personal experience with racism, as he insists the problems in the US and UK are ‘similar’.
Similarities: Last month, Andi’s GMB co-star Alex Beresford spoke candidly about his personal experience with racism, as he insists the problems in the US and UK are ‘similar’
The 39-year-old weather presenter penned an impassioned essay for The Sun, in which he wrote: ‘There is a perception that racism which results in police brutality is “not as bad here as it is over there”…
‘This perception is wrong, there are many similarities. Systemic racism has been proven to exist in these institutions.’
Going on to state that the police have been ‘proven to use excessive force disproportionately with people of colour’, the Bristol native also said that things wouldn’t unlikely improve until lawmen stopped ‘stop policing stereotypes’.