EastEnders airs powerful Anna and Gina scenes
EastEnders spoilers follow.
EastEnders has aired powerful scenes for Gina and Anna Knight, as their father George discovered the full truth about his adoptive parents.
Tonight's (February 14) extended episode focused solely on the Knight family, seeing George discover that his adoptive father Eddie was in fact standing trial for the racially aggravated murder of his birth father — a man named Henry Kofi Asare.
As George pressed Eddie over the night of the murder, Gina and Anna listened to their conversation. That led the sisters to have a discussion about their experiences growing up as mixed-race children.
"I can't believe he did that," Anna said after hearing the details about Eddie's involvement in the murder.
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"Dad always made it seem fine," she continued. "I never believed it went that deep."
"Makes sense that you see it that way," Gina replied. "Even calling it old-fashioned, 'cause you're too afraid to call it what it is."
Anna then pressed Gina for an explanation, leading her to point out that she had been treated differently to her sister due to her appearance. "You pass Anna, you could be white," she added.
"I'm just as black as you," Anna replied, leading Gina to explain that's not how the world sees them.
Gina recalled comments made by Eddie saying she needed to be "tamed", people wanting to touch her hair and men overly sexualising her body.
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"Why have you never backed me?" Gina continued, noting that Anna stopped being picked on after she started bleaching and straightening her hair.
"I've had to be tough... doesn't mean I want to be, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt inside," she said.
"You think I did that deliberately," Anna replied, adding that she now felt like Gina been "hating" her over the years before rushing out of the Vic's cellar in tears.
EastEnders airs on Mondays - Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast.
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If you've been affected by racism and racist hate crime, then organisations including the Equality and Advisory Support Service (EASS), the Monitoring Group, Stand Against Racism and Inequality (SARI) and Stop Hate UK are among those which can offer help and support.
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