Tag: history
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As Well
I get it. I really do. I am a black man and it has been wearying, even for me, the worldwide movement that is Black Lives Matters. That is not to say I am sick of hearing about it. It is, unfortunately, a necessary movement but like the Me Too movement of recent years, a…
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The Man On The Left
I laid in my bed with tears streaming down my face. It has been an emotional week. Struck down by some seasonal bug or – shoutout to Covid19! – the plague of the moment, along with the never-ending lockdown, I found myself mostly bed-ridden this week as the fallout from the George Floyd murder gained…
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What’s In a name
Most of us were given our names. Before the age of understanding, your parents or guardians and anybody else who was old enough to utilise language would address you by your given name. Some people change their name when they reach a legal age and have the power to do so. Some do it for…
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Not Seeing The Same Things
It gets tiring sometimes. I began writing this at three in the morning. It might meander in places and seem emotive. It is an emotive time, a troubled time. There are stereotypes and expectations. There is reason and rhetoric. Most of all there is emotion, a lot of emotion. Black lives matter…as well is the…
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Everyday Alien
SO many thoughts. I had wanted to write about Star Wars, one of the worlds biggest films and franchises. I had thought about how it encompasses a fictional world, that many accept, with various species all getting along. It was not always an easy alliance – Star Wars humour – but race was never an…
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The Tiger in the Woods
Tiger never cheated. Possibly the greatest golfer the sport has ever seen, he did not fall from grace due to, like so many sportsmen before him, a desire to win by any means, regardless of the possible consequences. No, Tiger Woods was taken down because his life did not match his public image.
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Even The Joneses Can’t Keep Up
Listening to the latest ads from Apple is very different from watching them. The eyes lie. In this day and age, over the last thirty years, as media has grown and become omnipresent, we have become consumers with our eyes.
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Imitation Of Strife
There is a well known film from 1959 called Imitation Of Life, starring Lana Turner as Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress with a young daughter, Susie, played as a teenager by Sandra Dee, who takes in a black housekeeper, Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) and her mixed race daughter, Sarah-Jane, portrayed as a teenager by…
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You Define You
Back in the early nineties, I worked in a world-famous department store in Knightsbridge, in London. Around the holiday periods, in the run-up to busy sales times, they would take on more staff on a temporary basis, employing college and university students or people just looking for part-time work to earn a little bit…
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Because Ultimately
PERSPECTIVE is an interesting thing. As a male of the species, the #metoo movement was and is something that I understand on a logical, live-in-the-real-world level. Though I get it on some emotional level, I really do not get it. I cannot. I am not a woman.
Whispering In A Hurricane 