Anticipating Obama Day.

This is something I wrote for another purpose a few days before Obama became president . I’ve tweaked it slightly just to make it self-contained so it can be read as a stand alone article. I was going to write a new article now Obama has won but decided not to. All I’ll write [...]

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Something in the Air…

There’s something in the air
On Obama day.
Something shifted in the ether
between I and I, you and me.

There’s something in the air today
here in the UK,
as across the globe
Black folk exchange glances with new scopes
Audacious hope
They now hold,
feeling bold.

There’s something,
New self-love?
Shared knowing?
New Pride is tangible for sure.
Maybe Love for their new white sisters and brothers,
emanates from [...]

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Obama Speech: ‘A More Perfect Union’ (Black & White Dirty Laundry)

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The Other Guy’s £250k’s worth

A FEW COMMENTS FROM THE OTHER GUY!
DISCLAIMER: Too much of this entry is about finance, and doesn’t take account of human life and dignity neither past nor present. Apologies if it offends. It’s making a point about something which has been reduced to monetary values.

Given how much the Bristol Corporation (now Bristol City Council) and [...]

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Dirty Laundry – Part 3 (Abolition 2007/2008….)

Have been away otherwise would have commented sooner on the £250,000 FOR SLAVERY COMMISSION story!
This is just a quickie response.  More substantial ones to follow.
DISCLAIMER: SOME READERS MAY GET ANGRY ABOUT WHAT YOUR ARE ABOUT TO READ.  THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE WHO WRITE THIS BLOG SO IF YOU KNOW US, PLEASE AIM YOUR ANGER AT [...]

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Dirty Laundry – Part 2

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 [...]

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Dirty Laundry – Part 1

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 [...]

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BECM Apology Debate 10 May 2006 (Part 1)

BECM Apology Debate 10 May 06 -
PART 1
- LISTEN TO THE DEBATE BY CLICKING ON THE SPEAKERS’ NAMES BELOW-

or go to PART 2

BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM 10 MAY 2006,BRISTOL,UK
SHOULD BRISTOL APOLOGISE FOR THE SLAVE TRADE?
PART – 1- OPENING SPEECHES

(the audio files, are in MP3 format)

Chapter
Length

Introductions by A.C.Grayling (Chairperson),Professor of Philosophy and Columnist

[...]

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BECM Apology Debate 10 May 06 – (Part 2)

PART 2
- LISTEN TO THE DEBATE BY CLICKING ON THE SPEAKERS’ NAMES BELOW-

or go to PART 1

BRISTOL,UK
SHOULD BRISTOL APOLOGISE FOR THE SLAVE TRADE? -

PART – 2 – AUDIENCE AND PANEL DISCUSSION – 10th May 2006

(the audio files, are in MP3 format)

Chapter
Length

Audience – Call 1
inc. Richard Hart

9mins 30sec

Panel – Repsonse 1
Toyin, Isabel, Mike, [...]

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