BLM
The Bank Holiday is just a few days away And Notting Hill Carnival has succumbed to fear The BLM demos drew many people but to what avail Carnival has been here for the same reasons since a long time And the dead it celebrated were no lesser Virtual Carnival is just pandering to an authority […]
Did we fall asleep at the wheel Sitting comfortably numb, feet resting on the table Watching the present slowly moving into the future As if this was a neverending TV series or soap opera The thunder of the news that Carnival is dead Was drowned in the fears of a lethal disease And the BLM […]
A few days away from the traditional date No move and no signs of a revival The year 2020 may well be the missing link The door wide open to extinction Black Lives Matter does not fulfil the same role As it is disconnected from African culture It may end up as a melting pot […]
From my nine year Chepstow archive The frozen road movie of the Carnival saga Hoping that the community will find the courage To challenge the cancellation and the interdictions Carnival is older than BLM but stems from similar events Race riots following the murder of Kelso Cochrane by racists in 1959 Claudia Jones Cumberbatch organised […]
Stop motion of a dancing couple The fever just rose and won’t drop again Caught on the picture forever dancing While Carnival’s existence is threatened Hope that BLM will save the year It was the original purpose Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
BLM demonstration after leaving the US Embassy Crossing Vauxhall Bridge going Westminster in style In the background stands the MI 6 tower, like Mordor Sauron’s eye in every phone and every home, democratically The battle must go on… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates Of Emergency Gallery
Can we still remember the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 And MLK like a Christ leading the way to his own sacrifice for justice It looks like we have walked backwards and Alabama swallowed the USA The political correctness and the cancel culture are just grotesque masks To cover a deep rooted prejudice that […]
Still we wonder about this year’s Carnival As the BLM movement searches its own soul The government imposes 1984 grade social diktats Will the black community offer a new surrender Or let the spirit and culture prevail over adversity Claudia Jones Cumberbatch still under the name of a slave owner Fought against racial crimes with […]
Huge crowd today at the Black Lives Matter protest Moving minutes of silence Waiting for the justice that eluded MLK, Steve Biko Malcolm X , Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis and so many others Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery