Cornrows and the gangster stereotype

The case of the young boy being banned from school because his cornrows are somehow indicative of anti-social gang affiliation expose some some stark issues For one, irrespective of a long established multi-cultural society there are academic leaders who cannot differentiate between an age old neat presentation of hair and a contemporary MTV stereotype Secondly, the knee jerk reactions of  powerful officials who have a laughable yet disturbing lack of exposure to African culture can arbitrarily become non-negotiable statutes Moreover, there have been issues in the USA wherein a celebrity dj announced that black women who didn’t straighten their hair to go to the office were being disrespectful, and President Obama’s 11 year old daughter was referred to as a ghetto whore because she was at an event with her hair untreated The message is frighteningly clear: assimilation or marginalisation

Die hard symbolism

Today’s Britain warrents applause for it self cleansing political correctness. But however honourable ,it refuses to outlaw the sale of this symbol of racial hatred and flagrant spite These wog dolls are in the habit of flourishing in die-hard communities like covert kkk memorabelia It is to the nation’s credit that all racial and sub-cultural groups are afforded the humane courtesy of basic respect. Even calling a dog a bad name might earn you a reprimand. There is nothing in the nation’s history that could tangibly justify the anglo saxon britons' tenacious affection for this souvenier from an era of impunitive racism. Or maybe that is the point

Rastamouse and us

I think we really should get a practical perspective on rastamouse before we get embroiled in yet another systematic wind up that we'll never win.

The wider picture is that Rastafari sadly never acquired the recognition it deserved. Most people in the world define Rastafari with the words Bob Marley maarn.. This further dilution is window dressing.

If we are that concerned then we should regulate our childrens' viewing

In any case, the accent's rubbish

Oh thanks pope

Religious morality or otherwise, a range of institutions in Africa celebrating pope Benedict's sanction of condom use is sure to precipitate an international rise in their use His about face on the issue is syptomatic of the independant flexibility of social charters If a continent of a billion people waited for a sexually abstinate guy to affirm that the simplest process of strapping up beats the high risk of a crude drawn out end that's also and epidemic, notwithstanding his track record past and present as a measure of his integrity, then more fool them. What hopelessness

To be Frank

This week we remembered the brixton riots that spawned the scarman report. We celebrated the liberal advances of community polcing, the IPCC and the cleansing of the police force of institutional racism.  Frank Bruno's  questioning over his car exposes such advances leading to an liberal playing field as a farce  .
Frank Bruno is a figure respected in the anuls of white society as he was once a media darling and received an MBE from tjhe queen
That the circumstances are that these police suggested that a black man may have stolen his high performance car without having made a data check , the trumped up rookies who pulled him over efectively shot themselves in n the foot.
This surely lends legitimacy to the contentions over the Kingsley Brown's of recent years

Sex Tourism

Sex tourism is a form of neo-colonial invasion

SEX TOURISM: The new colonialism

Your article on Western sex tourists (Voice September 8-14) is the sort of reminder we need of the motivating psyche behind the genteel face of many of our Caucasian compadres.

I have seen documentaries of- and met abroad - American sailors who are married fathers yet who lap up the easy sexual opportunism in the form of young boys, girls, transsexuals or just the poor.

They know what side their bread's buttered on and act like it's a treat.

This is a modern metamorphosis of colonial invasion. In cruder, more lawless times, they just raped indigenous peoples. The European has simply not gotten this primal behaviour out of his system.

It’s the spoils of neo - colonialism. As long as the west has the psychological edge over poorer countries - and a strangle hold over their economies - nothing will change.

Heard it all before

Heard it all before

STOP AND SEARCH: Used in the past to get DNA samples

THE REPEALING of Section 44 and DNA removal from police databases sound encouraging, but we've heard all this before and yet they still exist and with racial disproportionality. To make progression less likely, powers are being increased with this new Crime Prevention Injunction

You can't kid the victims. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Until such time, black boys need to be aware of their rights in defence from the police.

Accepting immigration

OT TOPIC: Rageh Omaar presents Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth

REGARDING THE Channel Four programme Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth, (Voice, April 21-27), it seemed that presenting such a hot potato with a brown face was a wise tactic, which waters down the harsh impact one would have expected.

It raises the chances of non-white viewing and listening to the arguments from a non-confrontational perspective.

For me, nothing new was garnered from watching. The same old arguments were civilly conveyed to a black presenter, who now was the catalyst for converting them to empathetic and statistical data.

While one interviewee droned on about the good old days when Margate was thriving, I couldn’t help overhearing, “before they came over here.” After all, that was the point. And 565 Brits leaving the country every day to gain their rightful rewards for their work, in opposition to the wage reductions taking place because Eastern Europeans will accept substantially less sounds like echoes of ‘Those blacks are just taking over our jobs and our women’, from the late 1970's.

Notably, the presenter pointed out that wherever the migrating job market goes, they in turn become immigrants on someone else’s doorstep.

In fact, Britain has made a virtue of exporting her people long before all of the nations she now hosts.

She did after all rule the waves, giving cover to her expansion, colonising a third of the world and exporting settlers, officials or representatives to each one of her colonies.

Indeed, New Zealand and Australia received exiles and menaces to society who could not be rehabilitated. No other country has enjoyed the convenience of such mass on-loading on England.

China, India, Australia the Caribbean, America and the Pacific particularly felt the presence of the British Empire’s human migration while no one could complain about them sponging off the welfare state.

Australia and America saw them de-humanise and near enough wipe entire races of indigenous peoples off the face of the earth in the name of civilisation.

In any case, the different nations have evolved and still are through a behavioural process of mass migration, which has never ended.

The Englishman, who gorges on American culture, strives on Chinese electronics, driving German and Japanese cars, has nothing to fear but fear itself. Though the sudden pace of change is unnerving, exacerbated by our relationship with the European Union, this is a mere part of an evolutionary process that is far bigger than him.

The dark hand of fate

Tables turned on Jade

ILL: Jade Goody

HOW POIGNANT, the fated hand that struck Jade Goody.

While living out her facade of fondness for Indians, to pull the wool over everyone's eyes after she showed her colours in Big Brother when Shilpa Shetty was in the vulnerable minority, she is told of a devastating cancer in front of the whole world.

I mean, who in history has ever been informed of their cervical cancer on an entertainment programme by the world's probing eye itself?

Now she's stricken with a persistent insidious acid of a disease, just like racism.

Good business

In the most televised event in history the Queen was gleeful. 

The Royal wedding was a public relations investment of our money into a long term re-generation of neo-imperialism, executed with enough audacity to write a thesis on. And it was a complete success

Obama proves himself

It is dis-heartening to see that Mr Obama should detract from his duties to dig out his birth certificate. When Bush was suspected of fixing votes he was allowed to carry on course. But,in this racist world status quo we find ourselves consistently being dragged back to square one. Berlussconi once trivialised him as a man with a tan And now the shameless Donald Trump exposes sour grapes of a country that has a vicious right wing and entertains the kkk. But the poise and dignity of this man is legendary. Obama is a worthy icon if not in that. And in that he emerged again with the intelligence and bravery that took him over insurmountable odds and maintains it in a job that physically deteriorated passed presidents Part of me wishes it were true that he was born in one of the world's most brutalised countries. That would only add to his enigma

Obama's proves himself again

It is dis-heartening to see that Mr Obama should detract from his duties to dig out his birth certificate. When Bush was suspected of fixing votes he was allowed to carry on course. But,in this racist world status quo we find ourselves consistently being dragged back to square one. Berlussconi once trivialised him as a man with a tan And now the shameless Donald Trump exposes sour grapes of a country that has a vicious right wing and entertains the kkk. But the poise and dignity of this man is legendary. Obama is a worthy icon if not in that. And in that he emerged again with the intelligence and bravery that took him over insurmountable odds and maintains it in a job that physically deteriorated passed presidents Part of me wishes it were true that he was born in one of the world's most brutalised countries. That would only add to his enigma and greatness

Tough luck Taylor

Lord Taylor got Lucky acquiring his job as a positive discrimination move from John Major. In no time he was insulting his new found friends. He should have realised that that as a black man he didn't belong in the banded gatherings of the Tory elite and that his position carried stipulations Basic law of the jungle nuber one : When crap hits the fan you'll be the first to go Such is the devil's contract. No sympathy here

A waste

It's great that we can enjoy the equal liberties of choice but inequalities aren't all buried When the entertainment industry eroticises backsides as the primary feature of a black female's attractiveness as opposed to the hair, multi-painted faces, and breasts of the white, our girls will do whatever they can to feel valued or to qualify in the jobs market Music videos of the MTV generation have sky-rocketed the notion worldwide and Claudia Aderotimi sadly became a statistical victim. If we stopped allowing other people to dictate to us what our personal values are we would surely lose less loved ones

Pope power

Religious morality or otherwise, a range of institutions in Africa celebrating pope Benedict's sanction of condom use is sure to precipitate an international rise in their use His about face on the issue is syptomatic of the independant flexibility of social charters If a continent of a billion people waited for a sexually abstinate guy to affirm that the simplest process of strapping up beats the high risk of a crude drawn out end that's also and epidemic, notwithstanding his track record past and present as a measure of his integrity, then more fool them. What hopelessness

Cameron's immigration control

Cameron's Gaul about immigrants lent blame to two cliches; language and secular communities. It is loaded with the rhetoric faced by the Windrush generation Then it became the mud thrown at the 'Asian invasian' before their work initiative earned them high street businesses. Then Polish workers got it and now, contemporarily, muslims. Unfortunately it's political folly to pinpoint ones prejudices and the policy of allowing E.U immigrants to claimfor families back home is being quietly peddled without any objection from his office while the cencus for Polish babies in the UK has risen to over 50 pre cent of the population. A hand-on-heart Cameron would say "We don't want north Africans because they're not intimidated by us . Asians have earned their stripes. Muslims are too confrontational. Somalians : We've contributed so much to their demise that we have to be seen to accept some of them, unfortunately. West indians are now conditioned, culled and convenient.  As for Poles.... well they're white; and Nordic"