Tag: Black people
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The Return of Speed Garage (v2)
Are you a fan of speed garage? The 90s nostalgia is back, and rising, as the beats and styles are coming back. Discover how drum and bass influenced speed garage in this MixMag article. Read on to find out more about the revival and the modern tracks that are leading the way.
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…
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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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Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion
Let me say here – if it’s not been obvious – I support Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg. I find the people who criticise protest to be twunts of the highest order – protest is nearly always good (fascists marching through black/brown/Jewish neighbourhoods or Orangemen doing same can get in the sea though) but…
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A reminder in these trying times
Just been called a ‘SJW’ and that I’m the wrong colour and should put on some paint for questioning someone who thinks those attacks on minorities in America are just ‘letting off steam’ even though the link had violent attacks in it. Then got offended and claimed there was ‘anti-white racism’ and that I was…
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Ghostbusters remake
One of the things that pissed me off about the response to the backlash on the Ghostbusters remake is being automatically labelled sexist because I thought it looked like a bad or meh movie at best. Now it’s come out, and it seems that many people support my instincts, but because the studio span it…