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ting. “Eric Clapton, a racist?” Well, he’s explained it over the years as the angry rantings of a drug-addled booze-bag. Has he ever truly apologized for what he said that night, or for the discriminatory vulgarity he’s uttered on other nights? Is he sorry? Listen to this clip from 2018 when he was promoting his Life In 12 Bars documentary. Do you hear the word “sorry?” Do you find it, uhh, funny that he finds it, uh, funny all these years later? Words matter, ol’ Slowhand. Love the music, not the man. Here’s what Clapton said that night on stage: “...I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?...” More reading here in this excellent article from 2018: https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/eric-clapton-racism Full Interview here - https://youtu.be/7wEwy6eI_Rg