By Nathan Richards
After reading “Who’s Blacker than you?â€Â it is obvious to me that the author did not read my article – they just imagined what it is I said. Their first paragraph reveals the extent to which they engaged with my piece, setting the tone for their reading. The author wrote:
Richards informs us that he is no fan […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
Muhammad Ali will never die.
October is Black History Month in the UK, so I’m posting a poignant poem by Muhammad Ali on the massacre of 33 African-American prisoners which ended the Attica Prison Uprising. Also his closing statements to the Irish interviewer, Cathal O’Shannon, are also of significance.
It is called Freedom – Better Now
By @JustinTheLibSoc
“It’s offensive, it’s like our narrative is always being told from the perspective of being enslaved or being in servitude when there’s so much more to African history than just slavery.” – Sara Myers, lead campaigner of Boycott the Human Zoo
“The role of the white liberal in the black man’s history in South Africa […]
By @ant_x_ince
An unexpected outcome of the narrow defeat of the Scottish independence referendum is that some form decentralisation of the UK, specifically with a devolution of powers to its constituent nations, seems inevitable. Government ministers, media, and political commentators across the spectrum all talk of the process as a done deal. Much like the now-hegemonic […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: Sexual Abuse; experience of sexually abused is outlined]
I write this because Novara Wire, the BuzzFeed of the Left, seems to have fallen for the reprehensible “Betrayed by PC Cowards” argument. Craig McVegas wrote “Police were scared of being labelled racist because they are racist” which is both nonsensical and untrue. There are […]
It’s 2013, a bustling Monday night and autumn has finally started eyeing up winter clothing. Inside my chosen venue, the walls are lined with baby-faced images of the alternative comedy elite: faces who make you laugh, but with a clear conscious. Up there, in their pre-pubescent glory, Baddiel, Skinner, Merton, I kid you not, are […]
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The Good Ole Days
It’s that time of year, war wounds are brought out, camera phones revealed. Pub tables are pulled together and people yell in your face about how mad it was. Yes Glastonbury festival is over and still people can’t stop talking about it. I’m especially pissed off as this year I didn’t go. […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: references to racial violence and rape]
Welcome to a world where Diane Abbott stumbles to say what David Lammy states fearlessly. Where The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh did what Ed Miliband couldn’t. James O’Brien elegantly provided an open door but leading political figures declined the offer. Contrary to what appeared to many as obvious, Cameron and […]
Great parody track and video by @femioyeniran @richkidcambell
Here is the original:
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By Ken Fero / @KenFero
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.â€
Malcolm X
The power of film to document stories, inspire action and agitate for change has run hand in hand with revolutionary cells, social struggles and mass movements. One of the critical points of our current situation is a rupture within our […]
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