Yesterday in London (and the rest of Europe I understand) it was the hottest day I can recall in many years. It actually felt like Jamaica and although I didn’t see asphalt lifting off the ground, the heat I felt on my back from the sun was a serious contender for natural fire!
Of course it [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 13:47:59 on June 13th, 2006 in Society
No Comments »Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair currently has many daggers jabbed into all sections of his body and, surprisingly, many of the stabbers are men who should be loyal to him. Apparently these enemies are doing everything to undermine him to orchestrate his removal from office, because they hate him for one reason or another.
For [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 12:48:58 on June 12th, 2006 in Society
No Comments »In over 20 years I can remember only one case where the British police has ever accidentally shot someone. Yet, in the space of less than one year they have allegedly and mistakenly shot two, one fatally!
In both cases the victims were distinguished by the fact that they were young, dark-skinned men and in one [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 10:49:45 on June 10th, 2006 in Society
No Comments »The other night I was speaking with a Black female friend, mother of several mixed raced children. She told me that she brought her children up as children and not as Black children. In her experience, she said, it was better for them that she did not emphasize colour because they would only internalise all [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 19:24:08 on June 8th, 2006 in Culture
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