Black Lives Matter
The main character in The Vicar of Dibley, Geraldine, will take the knee in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the Christmas special episodes of the sitcom.
There will be three 10-minute long Christmas special episodes, the first episode of which will air tomorrow, on Monday 6th December.
The episodes will focus on the incredibly challenging year we have all faced amidst the coronavirus pandemic and will see Geraldine try to inspire hope in the fictional village of Dibley.
One episode will address the sad death of Emma Chambers who played the beloved character Alice Tinker, and another will see Geraldine address the matter of the Black Lives Matter that became so prominent in 2020 following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Geraldine will make a speech to her congregation explaining why she feels the movement is so important.
"I don’t think it matters where you’re from," she tells the cameras.
"I think it matters that you do something about it because Jesus would, wouldn’t he?"
"Until all lives matter the same, we are doing something very wrong," Geraldine continues.
"We need to focus on justice for a huge chunk of our countrymen and women who seem to have a very bad, weird deal from the day they’re born."
After the speech, the character will remove church posters, replacing them with posters declaring that Black Lives Matter.
This will undoubtedly rattle some of the more closed minded folk who live among us. But until it becomes completely uncontroversial to say that black lives matter, we have to keep saying it.
