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African American narrative dominates the whole discussion on a global platform. All Americans by their very nature are quite insular even more so with African Americans as to stories of africans in the diaspora and africa. Far more afro Brazilians die by the hands of the police than in the US but those stories never get told . Black history month in the UK needs to relate to UK and the places in the diaspora and Africa where we come from .
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Black history month in the UK needs to relate to UK
100% yes
Been listening and reading Paul Gilroys work recently so I'm going to big him up here as an inspiration he recently established the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at UCL and has a series of interesting podcasts here
Settle
Yes America isn't the UK, but in my opinion that discourse helps pander to the rasicts who feed into the debate the rhetoric that the UK is innocent or far removed from the American struggle. It also stops white people from really questioning systemic racism within their community for fear of saying the wrong thing.
Again linking Joshua Virasami who talks about the importance of solidarity with the American struggle. 'To really honour George Floyd’s passing we must situate his murder within the wider reality of racial capitalism.' - long read so brew a cuppa
Who killed smiley culture?