Tag: Anti-racism
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RC 347: Hoodies All Summer
Patterns fit like pixels in my blueprintAnd I found hope in the brushstroke of a masterpieceHanging in plain view This lonely tightrope is hard enoughDon’t pull me downJust like they sayEvery moth needs a flame Lanterns on the Lake – Realist We’ve gone out of time as this is either a delayed spring or early…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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Why Do Black People Riot?
OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…
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(Open) Letter to the organisers of Love Music, Hate Racism / SWP
Well the Socialist Worker Party’s comment form on the rose-tinted sweetness and light article about the festival isn’t working, so I’ll post this here: “I was one of the people at the Love Music Hate Racism carnival, too young for the original Rock Against Racism but regard that concert with great respect. Overall it was…
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Mozgate: NME vs Moz part II
You might have heard about the fracas here, I wasn’t going to comment until I’d read the article but I found scans here (and Tim Jonze’s response is interesting if you contrast it from what he apparently told the manager). I remember Mozgate part 1 back in 1992 (?), and felt that the NME was…
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RC 136: All The World’s A Siege
Artwork by Tim B – Original image by Superk8 – CC Some Rights Reserved All the world’s a siege; and o’er this far flung isle something is rockin’ in the state of Dubstep. This above all, Billy Waggledagger gets the props, but otherwise it is all Greek to me. 2B or not 2B, that is…