Black and Asian people are disproportionately targeted by police in a surge of the use of stop and search under counter-terrorism laws in the wake of the failed 2007 London bomb attack, according to official figures published in April 2009. Regardless of what we may wish, the odious goons caught on camera in The Secret Policeman were unlikely to be the most racist officers in the country.
Bill Clinton should have apologized to Hillary about Monica and to the rest of America, only about the misuse of government premises. And Tiger Woods needn’t have apologized to anybody, except Elin, and that too whenever he was ready.
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Maybe, our colonial past has us feeling deeply inferior about our brown skin. Or it’s our caste system and the widely prevalent belief that fair people belong to higher castes. Interestingly, the Sanskrit word for caste, ‘Varna’, literally translates to colour.
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Mixed race people in the UK are in a strange position. On one hand, we are often the victims of hatred and ignorance from both black and white communities alike. At the same time, we habitually find ourselves sanctified, idealised and, inevitably perhaps, commodifed by those who would see us as foot soldiers for some utopian, coffee-coloured future.
Having consolidated control of the colony by 1799, L’Ouverture quickly set about firmly establishing Haitian independence. “There cannot exist slaves [in Saint-Domingue], servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French,” he wrote in a draft constitution for the new nation.
Having almost completely eliminated the Amerindian population in Haiti, the Spanish now began importing kidnapped Africans as early as 1501 under the rule of Nicolás de Ovando; thus making him the first enslaver of both the Americas and Haiti.
The land of Haiti was originally inhabited by one of the many indigenous native tribes that called the islands of the Greater Antilles (including Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados, and several others) their home. They were the Arawaks or Taínos people.
Would you like to participate in an MP shadowing scheme? It’s organised by Operation Black Vote in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government and is being run because there are so few black and minority ethnic MPs in the United Kingdom.
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Glory Box by John Martyn
