mainly macro: Little Englanders

mainly macro: Little Englanders

One Love, One London: Dr Paul Gilroy: From Afrocentricity to the Black A...

One Love, One London: Dr Paul Gilroy: From Afrocentricity to the Black A...: Over the last fortnight "race" has been in the media spotlight and debates and analysis on race-relations in Britain have becom...

Forensic Pathology Forum: Forensic Sound Bites & Half-Truths

Forensic Pathology Forum: Forensic Sound Bites & Half-Truths: A reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called me earlier this week, saying she had Michael Brown's official autopsy report as pr...

The Invisibles Thoughts on the Authoritarian State

I read somewhere that last year's  (2012) Olympic Games brought about the best that the UK. It demonstrated an ability for all people  of all abilities shapes and sized to perform on a level playing field.
The multicultural nature of the venues also added to pot pourri of these Games, which incidentally was sealed by the amazing opening ceremony linking the history oF britain as an inclusive eclectic and dynamic State.
This contrasts with an exclusive Britain where often that not visible minorities become invisible. Anna Chen demonstrates this lucidly in her Blog about the role of BME's in working class history.
This pathology permeates the structures of society and is often taken for granted. In a historical context much has changed since the 1950's the arrival of West Indians; coincided with a new formed confidence in northern working class entities. This expressed itself in Art,(Hockney) music (Beatles) and Theatre and fashion.

Republican What they are like

The more time and money the Republicans spend trying to make Democrats look bad, is money and time well spent, Simply because their zealots are completely besotted with the narratives emanating from their propaganda wing.
Meanwhile in the Real World they continue to deny any progress made both economically and socially in the past five years.

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Move Humanity Forward: Recognizing and Punishing Economic Crimes Against Humanity

Move Humanity Forward: Recognizing and Punishing Economic Crimes Against Humanity

Claude Mckay If we must Die

I have known about Claude Mckay for a while now and feel intrigued by his accomplishments both in Britain where he was a well known journalist for left publications, during the 1920's

Here is the poem written after Red Summer

"If We Must Die"

If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursed lot.

If we must die, O let us nobly die

So that our precious blood may not be shed

In vain; then even the monsters we defy

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!

What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Source: Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” in Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922)