Let's Start Somewhere

By Jamel McFarlane  Where were you when they murdered George Floyd?     By the time this article is released, it will probably be around 3 years since he was murdered. Even thinking about this - brings back bad memories.    I remember scrolling through Twitter and seeing the video. The first time I watched the murder I was mortified. How could a man be treated like that? No matter what he had done, no human being should ever be treated like this.     After everything went down and the world reacted to the video, more and more people started advocating for the rights of black people. People started marching and rioting about it.     Moyin was SU President at the time, and I was Vice President-Elect. We discus sed the riots. Three years ago, my opinion was that there should not be riots as it could make black people look bad. I think what happened was frustrations had been building for so long and people had had enough. George Floyd w...

By Jamel  McFarlane  Do you have a white parent and a black parent?  How do you class yourself as black when your skin tone is brown?  Your family heritage is from Jamaica so you must love Bob Marley and smoke weed, right? What’s your favourite rapper? - You like black music, Right?  And probably the most famous one that most people of colour have unfortunately faced.  Where are you from? I mean where are you really from?  Here is a few statements/questions that I used/still to face as far back as I can remember.  Being a young black man growing up in a predominate white town was a challenge. I moved from London to Ashford around the age of 6 and while I was in primary school I don’t remember having any close black friends. Although were people of colour (POC) in my class.  Obviously, I had the incident in year 5 (see one of my articles). https://letstartsomewhere.blogspot.com/2022/08/at-what-point-do-you-tell-your.html  ...