If I could go back in time, I would shoot everyone who brought BLM and the word "woke" into the British public consciousness. I literally feel like they're using these terms to psychologically torture us. We are being severely punished for 2020.
Acting like south asians have had an abundance of representation for all of love island is crazy. People need to understand that for years they counted representation as just black people, not saying it’s right what they’re doing this season but let’s have a little perspective.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the racist murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar that provoked the mobilisation of an anti racist movement in West London that survives to this day.
A reminder that Yves Sakila was killed in Ireland just a few weeks ago. Nobody has been arrested. The family have had to push for second postmortem because the first came back inconclusive.
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I also want to say, Kanya had her first child at 16 and dropped out of school. 10 years later she remortgaged her house and started the MOBOs after being told Black Music is too “niche”. Look at Black Music 30 years & £24.5 Billion later. She was unstoppable. A real powerhouse 🖤
Biba Henry & Nicole Smallman were two sisters horrifically killed in a London park in broad daylight. Two Met police officers took pictures of their dead bodies and shared them in a whatsapp group captioning ‘dead birds’. Did any party leader call for ‘cold rage’? Did anyone riot
She was a single mother from a council estate in Kilburn, told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market for it, and that the industry simply wasn’t interested.
Instead of arguing, she built the first MOBO Awards aired to the nation — and the game changed.
Rest in peace
Kanya King
1969-2026
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Some of us are old enough to remember when the UK tried to rebrand Black music Urban.
During that time we had the MOBO Awards - which still remains.
I remember TV/radio debates about trying to change the wording of Music of Black Origin? 👀
Thank you Kanya King! ✨🙏🏾🎶
I hate that the World Cup is in America. From Time Zones to how they’ve not embraced the world’s biggest sporting event. They should expedite it to Europe right now.
This is how serious NY is taking this Finals. Elmo had to retract his statement cause the city was like you a New Yorker this ain't the time for neutral shit