oh good! wanted to find out about this book! Cheers Inaya!
@vvwalker7261
9 ай бұрын
A sane voice in an emotive issue, he brings. nuance to the conversation that others don't bother to try to understand
@MarkTyson-k7r
Жыл бұрын
When I was growing up in the 60's and 70's I remember the phrase 'when America sneezes Britain gets a cold'. America has in general been a cultural leader for a long time, and certainly amongst black people with political figure like MLK and Malcolm X, Motown, Soul, RAP etc. The emergence of BLM and black identity politics, speaks to a disillusionment in Black America with the optimism of MLK, and it's replacement with a secular academic activism. Obama too was heralded as a saviour amongst black people around the world, but it would seem his legacy too has been a disappointment. BLM has achieved dominance today, but black intellectual achievement in the US has a long and diverse history. I have a wonderful essay by a black American writer called Saunders Redding called 'On being Negro in America' published in 1951, in which amongst other things he takes issue with black chauvinism and the 'Garveyites'. The black American writer Ralph Ellison who wrote the classic 'The Invisible Man', was none to fond of West Indians. My own West Indian relatives reported that black Americans sometimes resented the comparative success of black West Indians in the US. So it's not just that the UK is importing black American ideology, but a particular kind of black American ideology. Usually below the line I've heard the anti-woke quote the black American Conservative Thinker Thomas Sowell. The black liberal/left Philosopher Cornel West is little mentioned in these discussions. I remember going to see him speak when he visited the UK in the 80's or 90's. The Caribbean experience is diverse too; the likes of Katharine Birbalsingh, David Lammy, Trevor Phillips, Gina Mille, and Paul Gilroy are all of Guyanese extraction (from Guyana), so do we include Guyanese people as under-achievement Afro-Caribbeans? My mother is from Guyana which may explain my interest. Anyway I really enjoyed the interview. I'd like to see a more nuanced understanding of Afro-Caribbean people but that's not necessarily Rakib's job.
@kenricnarbrough8191
10 ай бұрын
Excellent take on the issue. Its sounds exactly right. (also very interesting to hear about the Guyanese element in terms achievement, thanks!)
@just_another32
Жыл бұрын
yeh simplified and very misleading narratives... keep spreading the word!
@just_another32
Жыл бұрын
oops I think I must be a denialist D: no... what it is is that I see many problems with our country (and many good things)... the particular problems mentioned don't stand out to me among the others... but perhaps I have been wilfully ignorant / not willing to separate the problems in terms of social disadvantage more generally and race/ethnicity/immigration/cultural related issues (such as the ones Rakib described). Thanks guys!
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