Share It’s time for the UK to have a party leader who is not just a white, Eton-educated, Oxbridge middle aged male. Enter Diane Abbott who has been on the political scene for decades – she was the first black female MP in 1987 – and is now running for the leader of the Labour [...]
Share Have a look at my recent article in The Guardian on why financial literacy is needed instead of just student loan reforms. This paragraph pretty much sums up my view: Without financial literacy, which involves not just the hard facts of money but also the emotional drivers of people’s financial management, we will continue to [...]
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Share The answer to my own question in the headline is a resounding YES. But let me qualify that by saying that we need GOOD black media (and indeed other ethnic media). Black media that perpetuates stereotypes and limits the scope of our interests to crime and entertainment stories, and doesn’t take into consideration the [...]
Share I want to hear your views on these issues! Let me know your thoughts! Here are a few interesting articles/comment pieces that have come to my attention in the past couple of days… From the UK: The Guardian: “Don’t Leave Migration Policy to the BNP”. For those who don’t know, the BNP stands for [...]
Share Yet another book on how “The Age of Obama” is changing things for minorities in the UK and the US. This is quite an interesting one (note: I’ve only read a sample chapter and not the whole thing) and based on research by Harvard’s Robert Putnam (in conjunction with Manchester University) who says that [...]
Share I have written a soon-to-be released essay on how the UK can use the momentum from Obama’s presidency to progress. Watch this space for that. It will be interesting to see how the Obama effect will be harnessed and what its actual effects, beyond symbolism, are in the UK. But according to a new [...]
Share I don’t like the idea of “post-racial”. Or “colourblindness”. The notion that supposedly lies behind them is sweet – that once we all look at each other as humans rather through the lens of race the world would be a better place – but not only is it somewhat naive, I think we also [...]
Share In a recent article – “Saying Sorry For Slavery Isn’t Enough” – that I wrote for the Guardian about the US House of Representatives’ apology for slavery, one of the readers made a comment to the effect that he/she is white and is sick of hearing about race. This type of comment is one [...]
Share If the rest of the world could vote in the American elections, Barack Obama would certainly win. The adulation that he was greeted with on his tour of Europe, the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan show as much. Obama symbolizes a great deal to a world fed up with President Bush. Americans, however, seem [...]
