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Anyone have a contact for the black cyclists network? Or anyone on here part of it?
Need to find some black cyclists for a film I’m making, and they haven’t answered a couple of messages on Instagram and Facebook.Thanks
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from Troy Deeney..
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truly regrettable..
if that was my child, i would redefine anger, because words would utterly fail me..
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It's not my child, I don't have daughters and I'm still feeling a lot of anger.
The "smelt cannabis" line seems to get trotted out a lot and makes me wonder - do these people actually know what cannabis smells like? Are they trained cannbis smellers? Do police have super sensitive noses to detect cannabis hidden inside an orifice? Fucking bullshit.
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When I first came to London, fucking everybody smelled of cannabis to me! Stand next to someone at the bus stop, you could smell of cannabis.
That was sexual assault, there is ZERO need for it to have gone the way it did. Who fucking calls the police on a child who smells of cannabis? If you think she had been smoking, where was the compassion? Where was the referral to youth drug and alcohol services? If you thought she was dealing, where was the support for an exploited child? Of course, these are rhetorical questions given the circumstance, sadly I know the answers. The teachers are saying they blindly handed over responsibility and authority to the police, but they should never have been called in the first place.
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This the sort of thing that scares me for firstborn, not so much the excessive escalation, but that does boil my piss, but the adultification, which can do so much harm to his personality/character/and emotional well being.
He's tender hearted as it is and the idea that my bright boy could be fucked over by authorities that place their trust in a racist police force who could damage his spirit before he has a chance to figure out who he is, so I've got to get him to act in a certain way to armour himself against it, breaks my heart. -
The experience I have seen growing up in London’s poorest neighbourhoods is, if you are black and under suspicion from those in authority, your race and not your age will always be the first consideration. That level of fear in society against black teenagers (preadult usually 13-14 years old) needs to be broken..
many of my friends in the mid 80s south London were either wrongly accused or incarcerated for minor crimes.. yet there was an expectation from their peers to be ‘the man’... despite the fact that they still had a long way to go before reaching adulthood aka 21 years old
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Corny, it is very sad. We have this situation looming with my GF little boy, only 9 right now 'happy go lucky and very innocent'.. but his teenage years will be a test of character for him. We need to teach him to be smart and behave in a way as to not draw attention to himself, becoming a teenager is fraught enough with many risks.
I think about those teenage friends of mine who faced discrimination and the damage it caused back then, a loss of innocence and abrupt end of childhood usually around an incident not of their making.
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Nice to post a positive story for a change
https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/gent-wevelgem-2022/elite-men/results/
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It's a difficult one
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Indeed love bun hate 🧀
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we have the wrong cheese @chokalateboywonder, should be red leicester I am totally at fault for the shoddy food shop planning.. GF is also tucking into harddough loaf. both from famous West Indian bakery in South London.
in other news
oxtail and butterbeans (famous home cooking) off the menu, only have this for high days and holidays, i blame those celebrity chefs for the price hikery, rarely found in supermarkets or butchers, paying a premium on delivery charges currently 1kg oxtail circa £18 total, used to be less than a third of that price in store or pre order pick up.We do have thick cut lamb chops from our local butcher though (seasoned the Guyanese way for oven roasting) planned for Sunday Dinner.
Still, one day this will be back on the menu when the rich people go back to eating prime cuts from the cow
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Nice washed down with sorrel
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so many great versions of this drink, my favourite goes something like this
best served at house party with a feast of Guyanese / Trini food;2 cups dried sorrel, (roselle/hibiscus sabdariffa)
10 cups water
3 cinnamon sticks
4 star anise, whole
2 pieces orange peel, fresh (2-3 inches)
2 tsp white sugarI am sure I mixed this with alcohol..
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It is the 'super' heads, business managers (that float around like demi-gods in too many of these academies and teachers that failed this child that should be the first to feel the heat.
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I came across this video yesterday, a 14 year old Eric Gales, blowing away the competition
in response to the dude on camera @ 1m 12s..
..Jimi Hendrix was no freakin’ one off
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appeared on my LinkedIn feed this morning
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the <<<, averted their eyes at the bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...
Fought in World Wars as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...
and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?
How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
This is an awesome post, keeping it real.
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Indeed but focusing on our resilience is exhausting.
We want to be in living mode not survival mode. I do like the reflection however even its based on the afro American experience which tends to be the global picture of africans in the diaspora. -
Obviously I'm not the target audience, and if it inspires then all good, but fuck that seems like it's putting a lot of pressure on someone who is likely still struggling but maybe not in the way their ancestors were.
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The story on R4 yesterday about the young boy made to clean his younger sisters genitals by the care staff, as she had soiled herself was horrific, complete failure by those caring for them
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The Smithsonian is handing back its entire collection of Benin bronzes to Nigeria. Posting this in this thread rather than the News thread because it's all about colonialism.
Looking at you, British Museum.