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I Ain’t Yo Nigger

November 2nd, 2008 — Society

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Some of my ‘brothers’ in England will tell you that Hip-hop and Rap music have legitimized use of the term “Nigger” among large sways of Black and non-Black people in America, and that we, too, in England should get with the program and throw off our shackles from the past.

I am, apparently, old-fashioned because I still get offended by use of the N-word. I don’t care who you are or how you say it. I am still likely to smack you in the mouth at a mere whisper of the word. I certainly wouldn’t be teaching my children to use a term that still holds currency as a mark of their supposed inferiority. Maybe it has something to do with class - not to mention respect for self and others - that Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and others I admire, refuse to engage with the word or those who use it.

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Obama Loss Traced To Single Nonvoter

October 27th, 2008 — Politics

A friend sent me this clever campaign video which made me smile but scared me into action, even though I can’t vote in America’s forthcoming elections.



If you can vote, make sure that you do! Vote Obama/Biden, and change the face of the future.

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Dark Crime White Victim

September 23rd, 2008 — Crime

It’s not just black men who get the clutching handbag treatment in public places these days, my mate Kris found out, though he’d long ago discovered how his black friends can open up crowds like Moses parting the Red Sea whenever we’re out shopping or simply walking down the street.

Being Eastern European, he’s also a little too dark to be English to most members of the great British public, so he too gets tarnished with the same ‘dangerous-looking foreigner’ brush. To say that things have got worse since the war on terror and the London bombings would be an understatement, he was on the phone complaining to me recently, but I am getting sick and tired of getting sick and tired of suspicious looks from English people whenever I ride the tube or buses. Some may say that they are afraid of all young people these days but that’s far too simplistic a response, and I’m no spring chicken, he said.

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Sexual Perversity in Bangkok

September 21st, 2008 — Letters From America, Society, Sport, Travel

“HIV! HIV! – Go fuck yourself!” she said. And then I woke up. Or maybe it was the other way round. Maybe a whore outside my door was actually cursing her punter and I wasn’t dreaming at all, and then, I woke up.

“Why you don’t want condom? Fuck you! I don’t like you.”

“Fuck you too” said the English-speaking white male voice. “I don’t like either of you. Fuck off! Go on. Get out!”

Across the hallway a door slammed shut and the two Thai whores continued their cursing. “You got no Willy. You got no Willy…he-he-he…Fuck you too! HIV! HIV!”

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Obama Dreams of a Better America

September 1st, 2008 — Politics

There is a widely held truism that black immigrants from all parts of the world tend to do better in the United States than their African-American counterparts because they actually dare to believe that, “yes, we can” succeed despite the odds. The same is arguably true of African-Americans in England, for example, who as outsiders can bypass the “historical baggage” and are often preferred in the marketplace to the home-grown variety of ethnic minorities as a result.

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If any one thing comes out of Barack Obama’s historic nomination as the first black man to lead a major American party in its bid for the White House, it will be a new understanding among African-Americans, and the American people in general, that frankly anything is possible if you truly believe and prepare yourself wholeheartedly for the task at hand.

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Jamaicans Run Tings in Beijing

August 25th, 2008 — Sport

The Jamaican quartet of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell were just too awesome for the rest of the field in the men’s 4×100m relay final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

“We wanted to show the world that Jamaica is a special country,” Frater said later, as the island’s medal tally increased to six gold, three silver, and one bronze. Not bad for a tiny Caribbean country of 2.7 million people.

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