I donāt think people understand the extent of slavery in North Africa so Iām going to start sharing stories Iāve read over the years:
On his way to Europe from Nigeria, Sunday, had to pass through Libya. There, a taxi driver sold him to an Arab for $200.
1996, I left care and found myself in a bedsit. My first Christmas Day I had a Pot Noodle on my own. Fast forward 30 years and young people leaving care are doing the same. How can we let this happen? Children in care are still children.
HMP Sudbury - nearly all prisoners in full-time work or education in an overwhelmingly safe prison
Read our inspection report - https://t.co/VTyaJysvOI
And our media release - https://t.co/nkjunVkKUd
And see the healthy establishment scores -
"Iām personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful armyā¦and then I found out that it wasnāt exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
Thereās no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - thatās whatās called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. Thereās a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel youāre not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though itās at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now itās much worse than it was then.
Itās the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, canāt even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horribleā¦people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You donāt have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, thatās a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
@LozzaFox@SadiqKhan The victim was stabbed because she refused the advances of an adolescent boy.
The kind of boy whose sense of entitlement you feed daily with your caveman misogyny.
Now fuck off and take your pathetic persecution complex with you ā weāre not buying here.
Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the 100 Great Black Britons list in 2004. #Blackhistorymonth
Happy Motherās Day to all the beautiful, resilient, giving, glowing Mamaās out there who make this world a better place. Special thanks to MY mom who gave me both wisdom and wings š
In many Black cultures crying and showing emotion has often been trained out of you. You cry as a kid and youāre asked, āDo you want something to cry for?ā Or youāre told to shut up, stop making noise. This isnāt cruelty for no reason. This is inter generational. For protection.
Latest event in Huddersfield on Wednesday 29th March: Author, broadcaster and journalist Jeffrey Boakye @jeffreykboakye gives a fascinating account of his experience as the only black teacher in a secondary school, as recounted in his book I Heard What You Said @Hudd_Lit_Fest
Bobby passed away here at home. I held him tight in my arms as he left us. I am forever heartbroken. Thanks to all of you for your many prayers over the years. He had been "FLOXED," it took his health over the last 6 years and 2 months. Rest with God, my Love. -Mary Caldwell
NEW: The royal familyās website has now been updated, naming Prince Archie of Sussex and Princess Lilibet of Sussex as sixth and seventh in line to the throne: