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There was a blackout on the web yesterday – around 30 million black squares posted on #BlackOutTuesday to saturate social media with one crucial message: #BlackLivesMatter.
It was surreal and heart-warming, and sent out a much-needed message of solidarity that was unprecedented in its scope and sentiment.
Continue reading “Was the virtual blackout enough?”
When I was growing up in Islington in the 1970s, my brown skin steadily thickening in response to regular racist abuse of some kind or another, I was always inwardly overly ecstatic whenever I had the rather rare opportunity to interact with another brown person (who was not a relative or family friend). ‘Brother from another mother!’ my inner voice would cry out in barely restrained rejoice.
Continue reading “2020 – Enjoy a year of diversity, not divisiveness”
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I’m pissed off at the future! Not the future that is to come, but the future that was to be. The one we’ve actually ended up with today.
Continue reading “The Future’s not what it turned out to be”
It’s as simple as that. Muslims are not allowed to engage in terrorism. In fact this is as fundamental to the religion (and indeed any religion) as Fanaticism is spurious to the basic beliefs of Muslims.
For those of us fasting – here we go again.
Continue reading “Welcome Ramadan 2017 – be gentle, be loving, be peaceful”
A buffoon-in-chief speaks – or should that be reads badly – on matters he simply can’t begin to comprehend. The insincerity stabs at you with every jab of the tiny paw.
‘Let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably,’ – where is that from?
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