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I know its not fashionable to talk about black music in terms of race nowadays and there will be many people that think with our shared multi racial heritage that the idea of a separate Black British musical identity itself is an antiquated idea. But every time I turn on MTV every white pop star I see seems to be somehow indebted to black culture from Justin Bieber to Iggy Azalea, even Disclosure. The MOBO awards, created so that Black British music would have an institution to rival the Brits, now seems to only honour white artists like Jessie J and John Newman. It seems obvious that in this present climate the people who are reaping the greatest rewards from black music are not black. If the Black British community remains silent in the erasing of the roots of our culture then how is a defined Black British musical identity ever going to be allowed to flourish? 

 

 

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/black-british-music-is-being-extinguished-kele-okereke?utm_source=noiseytwitteruk

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Mobo's are named as such as its for music of black origin, doesn't mean the winners can't be white or even, all white.

 

If you want an event where only black people can win a prize then name it the Niggas Only Awards For Conspiracy Following Brothers instead of the Mobo's.

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I dont much on it but was wondering if someone can drop some knowledge 

I was listening to Star's show last week and a guy from scotland called in he said 

Scotland only became a part of the uk because they were going bankrupt 

investing in colonies (slavery) in the west Indies 

 

any useful links 

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The former leader of the British football hooligan gang the ‘Chelsea Headhunters’, Chris ‘Chubby’ Henderson, who boasted of the kickings and beatings he gave at football matches in Britain in an autobiography, has died in London.

 
Henderson, former owner of the 'Dogs's Bollocks bar in Pattaya is reported to have died of a seizure on a friend’s sofa last week.
 
Henderson who was in the skinhead band ‘Combat 84’ and who claimed membership of the National Front, appeared to have mellowed in his racists beliefs in Pattaya and had a number of Thai girlfriends.
 
But it appears he did not stop taking drugs.
 
The former leader of the British football hooligan gang the ‘Chelsea Headhunters’, Chris ‘Chubby’ Henderson, who boasted of the kickings and beatings he gave at football matches in Britain in an autobiography, has died in London.
 
Henderson, former owner of the 'Dogs's Bollocks bar in Pattaya is reported to have died of a seizure on a friend’s sofa last week.
 
Henderson who was in the skinhead band ‘Combat 84’ and who claimed membership of the National Front, appeared to have mellowed in his racists beliefs in Pattaya and had a number of Thai girlfriends.
 
But it appears he did not stop taking drugs.
 
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The Headhunters have rivalries with counterparts who follow other London teams, such as Arsenal, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers,Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham.

 

The Headhunters or originally the 'Chelsea Shed boys' and older 'Northstand' can trace their roots to the late 1960s, when football hooliganism was in its infancy and along with West Ham's 'Mile End Mob' were one of the original Football Firms. Led by Danny 'Eccles' Harkins it coincided with the Skinhead movement at the time which saw a new breed of youth on the terraces who were prepared to fight. However the Skinhead connection to the Firm did not go hand in hand with the racism that would categorise the Headhunters from the late 70s and onwards. The Shed boys had a number of Black Skinheads in their ranks including the infamous 'One armed Babs', as well as different gangs from areas such as Stockwell, Brixton, Battersea and Slough however despite this it was always a predominantly white Hooligan Firm. The turning point for the Firm in terms of race relations came in the 1970s when the national front gained prominence.

Since that point there was widespread racism amongst the gang and links to various white supremacist organisations, such as Combat 18 and the National Front. The gang also became affiliated with Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisations, such as the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Headhunters

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''On Friday, home secretary Theresa May announced a judge-led public inquiry into the murder of Daniel Morgan, who was found with an axe embedded in his head in a South London car park in 1987. The panel of experts will examine not only the police corruption that sabotaged five successive police investigations and caused the subsequent murder trial to collapse, but also the “connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.”

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/10/the-daniel-morgan-murder-an-unsolved-mystery-of-the-murdoch-hacking-scandal.html

5-0 in the 80s were reckless

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"David had his £71.70 weekly allowance stopped meaning that he couldn’t afford food or electricity. He was penniless, starving and alone. His electricity card was out of credit meaning the fridge where he should have kept his diabetes insulin chilled was not working. Three weeks after his benefits were stopped he died from diabetic ­ketoacidosis – caused by not taking his insulin."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8326339/Inside-the-private-world-of-Londons-ultra-Orthodox-Jews.html

London's insular, close-knit Haredi Jews live by age-old traditions, yet are flourishing in the face of the 21st-century pressures.

The Haredi – strictly-Orthodox Jews who trace their ancestry to 18th-century Eastern Euope – are one of the most close-knit, insular and private communities in Britain. More than 20,000 live in Stamford Hill, in north-east London. But it is a community, it seems, in which everybody knows everybody, and where a stranger is noticed.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8326339/Inside-the-private-world-of-Londons-ultra-Orthodox-Jews.html

 

London's insular, close-knit Haredi Jews live by age-old traditions, yet are flourishing in the face of the 21st-century pressures.

The Haredi – strictly-Orthodox Jews who trace their ancestry to 18th-century Eastern Euope – are one of the most close-knit, insular and private communities in Britain. More than 20,000 live in Stamford Hill, in north-east London. But it is a community, it seems, in which everybody knows everybody, and where a stranger is noticed.

 

 

Thank you, nice read.

 

Maybe one day for us huh? :(

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"On Tuesday morning, around 9:30 am, she called the police to help her with her son Kaldrick Donald and one officer showed up, Sergeant Charles Brown.

Charles Brown ended up tasing Kaldrick Donald repeatedly, and then took him into the isolated bathroom in the family’s house and shot him multiple times, killing him."

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Leopold began to carefully create a plan to convince other European powers of the legitimacy of his claim to the region, all while maintaining the guise that his work was for the benefit of the native peoples under the name of a philanthropic "Association". His desire for territory and colonial control in Africa is evident when he stated:

“ I do not want to risk...losing a fine chance to secure for ourselves a slice of this magnificent African cake ”

—King Leopold II, speaking to one of his aides in London[6]

The king launched a publicity campaign in Britain, drawing attention to Portugal's slavery record to distract critics and offering to drive slave traders from the Congo basin. He also secretly told British merchant houses that if he was given formal control of the Congo for this and other humanitarian purposes, he would then give them the same most favored nation (MFN) status Portugal offered. At the same time, Leopold promised Bismarck he would not give any one nation special status, and that German traders would be as welcome as any other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Early_European_exploration

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just got sent this. 'The Congolese think they have the best music and the best dancers. They have this heavenly feeling that they were brought into this worldto Sing and Dance, and please, for your own safety, don't you dare challenge that! A Congolese can be spotted from afar by the gait of his walk, and it also depends on the mood of the walker: A "Ndombolo" walk is a sign of happiness (, also means 'I've just had it'); a "Baba Gaston" walk is a sign of old age.:lmao:

 

http://www.nairaland.com/908082/how-know-african-another-african

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just got sent this. 'The Congolese think they have the best music and the best dancers. They have this heavenly feeling that they were brought into this worldto Sing and Dance, and please, for your own safety, don't you dare challenge that! A Congolese can be spotted from afar by the gait of his walk, and it also depends on the mood of the walker: A "Ndombolo" walk is a sign of happiness (, also means 'I've just had it'); a "Baba Gaston" walk is a sign of old age.' :lmao:

http://www.nairaland.com/908082/how-know-african-another-african

Ndombolo >>>>

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