Posted in 2007, tagged abolition, reparations, slavery, transatlantic slave trade, trevor phillips on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Rumour has it that Sir Trevor the Younger (i.e.Phillips , not McDonald) has some funds to use for Legacy of the slave trade abolition.
Did this money come from banks? from the corporate sector?
And how much? Was it really for reparations? And what will it be used for?
And does that mean it was in the trillions [...]
Posted in dirty laundry, education, tagged chuck d, dirty laundry hip hop, malcolm x, martin luther king, minister louis farrakhan, nation of islam, public enemy on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’ve heard all the great speeches from Malcolm to Martin
Now we have this last chance left…….
To rise up out of the ashes of slavery
Time is a very important element in this journey
We can’t afford to be 24 carrot’d up
Addicted to retail and bling
Wasting time and spending on nonsense
We got grown men in toy stores like little [...]
Posted in racism, tagged bnp, multiculturalsim, nick griffin, oxford university, racism, racists on November 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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Posted in education, multiculturalism, tagged education, multiculturalism, naht, national association of head teachers, poland, polish, schools on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Heads seek more migrant funding
Posted in education, tagged black school children, education, Ernest Green, exams on November 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The attainment of black children in England’s schools has continued to improve, latest figures show. ……
To read more of this story click here. (BBC News – 27.11.07)
Just quickly posting this up as don’t always want to be criticising. We must make room also for celebrating achievement of young people. We adults can’t get complacent though as there is [...]
Posted in Africa, Bristol, education, multiculturalism, windrush, tagged abolition, Bristol, british empire and commonwealth museum, multiculturalism on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a blow to the cultural “offer” of the city that the Commonwealth museum is moving to London. In it’s short time in Bristol it has hosted a wealth of exhibitions and events that have aimed to raise poignant questions for the whole city; for those born here and for those born elsewhere.
That said, there are also [...]
Posted in Bristol, multiculturalism, tagged dance, multiculturalism on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Behind the scenes of a film shoot:
A young white English woman who specialises in Indian dance, applying make-up to a young Anglo-Asian actress for an African & Asian dance film.
(The location for the shoot was the ‘passenger shed’ of the Empire & Commonwealth Museum. It could have been filmed in any large empty space, and it [...]
Posted in dirty laundry, media, tagged depression, dirty laundry, minority affliction condition, news on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever I see a black person in a negative news story, (which by media studies deconstruction definition will be 99.9999% of the time that a black person actually ever appears in the news!), my heart sinks. I feel an uncontrollable mixture emotions ranging from sadness, anger, depression, paranoia and vulnerability. When I become self-aware of my feelings at [...]
Posted in multiculturalism, tagged boy with flag, multiculturalism, union jack, vanley burke on November 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Boy with the Flag c.1970-79
© Vanley Burke Archive, Birmingham Central Library
When I first saw this image in the early 90’s, when I was in my early 20’s and becoming more politicised, I was like, “Wow! A black boy in the 70’s so brazenly & proudly sporting a Union Jack flag. Radical and controversial!” (or [...]
Posted in 2007, Bristol, education, multiculturalism, tagged black schools, education, trevor phillips on November 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sir Trevor Phillips was in Bristol today, at the invitation of Paul Stephenson to look at two of Bristol’s 2007 offerings.
The former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, current Chairperson of the new Commission for Equalities and Human Rights came to see the Breaking The Chains exhibition and the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum.
After a [...]
Posted in 2007, Bristol, abolition, multiculturalism, slavery, tagged abolition 200, Bristol, slave trade, slavery on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A POLEMIC
One noticeable thing about this year and the open debate about the suffering of black people, has been the increased irritation of some white-folk.
Mainly because they can’t see why all the attention should be placed on people who, to them, have have only just arrived. Especially if they have similar basic needs too. A [...]
Posted in 2007, Bristol, abolition, media, racism, slavery, tagged Bristol, representation, slave trade, slavery on November 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Bristol and the slave trade is a complex web as I feel it’s a heady mixture of the need for acknowledgment and recognition of the impact & legacy / the need to seperate fact from myth and the lack of evidence thereof / and the very human emotional need for healing and the effects on identity.
When [...]
Posted in 2007, Bristol, Economics, Politics, education, tagged Economics, jesse jackson, self determination on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The areas of Education, Health & Wellbeing and Cultural Representation as the three areas highlighted as priorities for the 2007 Legacy to lock on to. These are indeed valid areas in need of attention of African heritage people in this country.
Bristol’s year chose these as some areas to focus on which would be less meaningless than African [...]
Posted in 2007, education, multiculturalism, tagged black schools, education, Peter Hammond, trevor phillips on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the debate(12 Nov ‘07, Bristol), the issue of Black schools was raised by Lisa Blackwood. Drawing on evidence that ‘black boys are…you know what’, then why not schools for black boys?
There are such things around and they are proven to make a difference to some African children. In the light of growing interest in faith schools [...]
Posted in 2007, Bristol, abolition, education, maafa, slave trade, slavery, tagged Afrocentrism, Bristol, History, John Lynch, maafa on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Afrikan education was another thing missed on this trip.
As the home of the John Lynch Afrikan Education Project, and with the visits of Ligali to the city, there is always going to be an opportunity for Bristol’s African people to explore an Africentric worldview.
In this world, African people have history. Big history! And soul-healing and liberation will come from [...]
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