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Posted: Sunday January 21st, 2007 12:03 |
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northlondon49ers wrote: I wanted to make sure I read every single page of this thread before even attempting to post anything, at the risk of repeating what has already been doccumented. I also recognised there were some strong feelings generated this week and wanted to wait until things had started to take shape before concluding an opinion on this sorry state of affairs.
First off can I admit to once being sucked into this whole charade. Yes I was one of the original Big Brother fans (episode 1 infact back in July 2000), series 1 right through to about 2004. I think I was taken in by the whole spin of it being a psychological social experiment, although hindsight has shown me I was just a naieve sheep who followed a gullable flock.
It was the run of 2004 which featured some unsavoury incidents involving 2nd generation African contestant Victor Ebuwa which reaffirmed my cynical views which had been brooding from the way in which Adele Roberts was conveniently created into a monster to save a caucasian contestant. That caucasian contestant went on to enjoy a renaissance and eventually made more money than any other contestant in the shows history- Jade Goody.
As a brief aside, and just on the issue of Jade's biological heritage. She may well be of African heritage, but being African is more than some kind of biological inheritance. Its also about a cultural state of mind and extends beyond conventional boundaries. Its a way of life. A way of thinking. As she was raised solely by a caucasian parent, with no influence or correspondance from her African heritage, she is a bona-fide caucasian. The fact she was brought up in a bastion of xenophobic cretins in the area known as Bermondsey (but more likely to be associated with the kind of filthy animals who support the local football club Millwall FC) merely compounds this fact.
With regards to the wider question of racism and its implications, well thats more straightforward. Of course it was racism and of course it was disgraceful. But do I have sympathy? Well if I do I am struggling to find it.
And it all goes back to Big Biggot 4 when Victor Ebuwa was the victim of a racist outburst from caucasian contestant Michelle "Shell" Jubin (not the geordie one, the so-called quiet one). The outburst was supressed by Channel 4 TV who refused to broadcast the clip to allow viewers to judge the situation in full. Instead the retaliation from Victor was concentrated on, thus projecting a stereotypical and racist image of a violent aggressive African using a tirade of obscenities against (what appeared on the surface atleast) a timid caucasian contestant. The supression made me despair, and I remember reading the Channel 4 forums where any reference to the incident was quickly removed and posters were immediately banned. The message was simple: it did not happen and the history books were to subsequently reflect this with little or no mention to what actually happened.
After that sickening episode I decided that nobody could complain that they didn't know what was being engineered by Channel 4 and the makers of Big Bully. Perhaps for the first 4 years contestants could plead ignorance and pretend they really thought that everyone had an equal chance of competing and winning. What was seen during this series had confirmed that the rules and goalposts would be moved and adapted whenever neccessary to ensure non-caucasian contestants would never get anywhere near winning the 'contest'.
Its why I struggled to find any tears for Science, as disgusting as his treatment was. Its why I couldn't pretend to be suprised when Makosi was offered as the sacrificial lamb and the villain of the pantomine. Stage managed, artifically enhanced and most of all subject to selective and manipulative control which would always protect characters of caucasian descent, while conveniently finding superficial faults with anyone non-caucasian so as to offer as the classic fall-guy.
And its also why I was a little suprised that such a silly programme has actually been debated in Parliament, although I am in no doubt that politicians will always spot a bandwagon when they see one and the opportunity for cheap points will never be missed. What happened to Shilpa was sad but it was continuing the trend. Channel 4 didn't find anything wrong with it, and why would they when the ratings increased from a dissapointing 3.5m last Sunday to a record equalling 9m on Friday. Infact, while I am in no doubt that the producers did inform Jade and the rest of the housemates of the wider implications of their actions off camera, it is also highly questionable whether anyone would have batted an eyelid if the victim had not been of a particular status. Suddenly racism is abhorrent when the victim happens to be a celebrity, but condoned and even accepted as long as the victim can be demonstrated as 'asking for it' or has been said previously on this thread of 'having a chip on their shoulder'.
Britain is a racist country. It was racist when my Grandfather was being chased through the streets of London by gangs of racists in 1965, it was still racist when my father was growing up in the mid 1970s and it was still racist when I was encountering the worst of it in my teenage days of the 1990s. I have no doubt that my children have no hope whatsoever of living in a non-racist Britain, nor for that matter their childrens children. The Race Relations Act of 1976 was meant to be the watershed for the post colonial Britain. Instead it merely drove the racist attitudes and traits underground. Few were going to be stupid enough to be face prosecution by being overtly racist, so the onus now became on the two-faced approach. The acceptable public perception, and the one that was reserved for behind closed doors. Very occassionally the two still cross paths, but these caucasians are a clever sinister bunch who know how to play the game perfectly.
I made a decision a while ago that I would never start a family in such a racist country. All being well, in just a little over a years time I will be in a position to return to Africa where I can give my children and the future generations of my immediate family an opportunity to grow up in a society which would not offer judgements because they were of a different origin. I would rather not have kids altogether than ponder the prospect of contributing to the creation of a human life into such a racist and spiteful society which is the one that exists in this rotten wicked island called the United Kingdom.
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Posted: Sunday January 28th, 2007 22:46 |
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BIG L wrote:
"I'm so upper class that anything under my plain of existence is strange and rude!"
"Do you think i have a chance with that sexy indian?nice to know we Pilgrims didn’t wipe them all out!"
"shilpa should f**king go home, back to china!"
"i'm not a racist, i'm not a bully!"
" Child you must be on dog food!"
"Indeed"
"let me tell the public right now that if i was prime minister...erm... nothing like this would never of happened!"
"Yeah right!"
"Man...Racism is hard to find!"
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Posted: Monday January 29th, 2007 21:46 |
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POST OF THE DAY..
MarcusGarveyLives wrote: The Politics of Celebrity Big Brother: What Have We Learnt ...
... that it is possible for an African man to be publicly surrounded by several filthy, foul mouthed white supremacists for a month and to emerge with the respect of the public by not displaying the buffoonery, coonery and minstrel-like behaviour usually manifested by African men on British television (especially when they smell white female flesh) ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz (formerly Jermaine Jackson) ... Respect!
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Posted: Monday February 12th, 2007 21:25 |
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submission wrote:
When you look at me
all you can see
Is the scarf that covers my hair
My word you can't hear
Because you're too full of fear,
Mouth gaping, all you do is stare.
You think it's not my own choice,
In your own "liberation" you rejoice.
You're so thankful that you're not me.
think I'm uneducated,
Trapped, oppressed and subjugated.
You're so thankful that you are free.
But Western women you've got it wrong-
You're the weak and i'm the strong,
For I've rejected the trap of man.
Fancy clothes- low neck, short skirt,
These are devices for pain and hurt,
Always jumping to the male agenda,
Competing on his terms.
No job share, no baby-sitting facilities,
No feeding and diaper-changing amenities.
No equal pay for equal skill-
Your job they can always fill.
Is this liberation?
A person with ideas and thought,
I'm not for sale, I can't be bought.
I won't decorate anyone's arm,
Nor be promoted for my charm.
There's more to me than playing coy.
Living life as a balancing game- mother,
Daughter, wife, nurse, cleaner, cook, lover-
And still bring home a wage.
Who thought up this modern "freedom"
Where man can love'em and man can leave 'em.
This is not free but life in a cage.
Western women you can have your life.
Mine- it has less strife.
I cover and I get respected
Surely that's to be expected-
For I won't demean the feminine
I won't live to a male criterion.
I dance to my own tune,
And I hope you see this very soon,
For your own sake- wake up and use your sight!
Are you so sure that you are right?
For a Muslim woman who wears the hijaab, she is judged by her mind and
her deeds only...not by how sexy she looks, how much cleavage she's showing
and how much make up she's wearing. when a man looks at her, he looks into
her eyes and his focus is on what she says and the way she thinks and not
anything else. that is freedom.
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Posted: Wednesday April 4th, 2007 17:58 |
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POST OF THE DAY
Nominated by Le Moor
ZACK wrote:
Well as a 54 year old black male who was born in the caribbean Antigua to be exact and I have family and friends in most of the caribbean islands Whom I visit regularly
Us older heads always stay in touch even though most of us are back and forth from uk to caribbean in the summer and winter. My daughter just got married to a Jamaican guy and I invited all my old friends from various different caribbean Islands who I used to work with.
It was a very proud ocassion for me but at the wedding reception the older heads all sat down with our heads in our oxtail soup we all spoke of the good ole days.
Funny enough the issue of relationships came up and we all came to the logical conclusion that there is good and bad in all people.
You cannot genralise to do that you are denying yourself the chance to meet and get to know and build relationships with the opposite sex. I'm not trying to patronise anyone who reads this thread but I'm telling you I have been around a bit and seen a good few things in my 54 years. Thank god I have been blessed to be able to afford to travel and see the world.
When you see things elsewhere you start to realise that the grass isn't neccasarily greener. And you get to find out that wotless people come in all nationalities. And we have our fair share of wotless caribean men too.
But my advice to black women and I speak speak as a black man whom has 3 beautiful black daughters all from the same woman I hasten to add lol.
But seriously ladies you have to take man as you find them and give a man a chance to show you what he is about. Then make the judgement.
It seems strange that many of these brother bashing sessions I hear of so frequently where black females get together round one persons home with the ocassional black man in the mix thrown in normaly the boyfriend or husband of one of the women. And the evening conists of putting down black men and saying black men from there are better than black man from here. Or we even have some who use it as a sounding board to promote their prefrence for white males.
Is it not strange that many of these independent black females whom think with this colonial mentality have never even had what I call a proper stable relationship yet they become experts on who is the best person to date and have a realtionship with lol.
I'm so glad the wounderful black men and women in mine and my wifes circles, and my wife happens to be from Grenada, do not think like this as we are all older black men and women who know better.
I won't deny there are issues of responsibily within some black males whom are born here, However there are elements of that in the caribbean also ,but that has nothing to do with where a person is from it's about the teachings they have had within the home from day one and how they were raised.
The issue nowadays is boys think they can become men before their time without walking the walk. A boy has to be taught to become a man with proper teachings from some sort of father figure.
Or he will remain a boy for life and a boy whom has a son doesn't have the skills to pass on.
Those are the facts my brothers and sisters
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