Showing posts with label Baroness Amos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baroness Amos. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 November 2008
The Joke of Dizzy Rascal On News Night
The night when the world celebrated the landslide victory of President- Elect Barack Obama, the BBC decided to make a joke of what this win meant to people of Britiain by choosing rapper Dizzy Racal as the voice of black people.
On BBC 2, the popular political commentary show News Night featured an interview with Baroness Amos, the former leader of the House of Lords and Dizzy Rascal, commenting about their feelings on whether Britain could have a black Prime Minister.
I, like many others was ashamed of how Dizzy Rascal came across in the show. Fair enough he was just being himself, and no one ever told him he was going to have to become a political commentator.
It is true that if he was to have been any different, people would have been wondering what was wrong. However to me the blame lies completely with the BBC.
Voice of Young Britain
If they wanted to have a commentary from young Britain, there is no way they could say that he was the perfect choice for the voice of young people.
He was not taking it seriously and Jeremy Paxman definitely was not taking it seriously. Even Baroness Amos was embarrassed.
If this is what the BBC call hard news, they should be ashamed of themselves. Usually the BBC can be depended on to be a perfect representation of what news should be, but on that occassion they were seriously lacking.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Will Britian's First Black Prime Minister Please Stand Up Part 2
Britain's Advantages
For one thing I think our youth have more prospects in this country than in America, more of our black youth have more of an opportunity to make it into higher education or other alternatives, with the help of the government, which is not the case in America.
We also have better health and social benefits than America, even though we may moan about it some times, we really do have the backing of our government.
In some cases I think we bemoan the government because we have yet to experience how really bad it can get, as our American counterparts have, which is why I think they have instilled such hope in Obama.
Another thing is that for a country so much smaller than America, filled to capacity with many ethnicities, we can all find representations of those ethnicities in high places if we look for it.
Now I am not saying that we as black people still have not got alot of ground to cover, but I do not think that we should now look at America and see it as a failure if we do not achieve the same thing.
For one thing racism may still be present in many areas in the UK, but America's racism is even more prevalent and ingrained.
Lets give credit to those Black British people who have fought their way to the top of their chosen industries and celebrate them as our triumph.
For one thing I think our youth have more prospects in this country than in America, more of our black youth have more of an opportunity to make it into higher education or other alternatives, with the help of the government, which is not the case in America.
We also have better health and social benefits than America, even though we may moan about it some times, we really do have the backing of our government.
In some cases I think we bemoan the government because we have yet to experience how really bad it can get, as our American counterparts have, which is why I think they have instilled such hope in Obama.
Another thing is that for a country so much smaller than America, filled to capacity with many ethnicities, we can all find representations of those ethnicities in high places if we look for it.
Now I am not saying that we as black people still have not got alot of ground to cover, but I do not think that we should now look at America and see it as a failure if we do not achieve the same thing.
For one thing racism may still be present in many areas in the UK, but America's racism is even more prevalent and ingrained.
Lets give credit to those Black British people who have fought their way to the top of their chosen industries and celebrate them as our triumph.
Top Black Britons
- Dr Mo Ibrahim-billionaire entrepreneur
- Baroness Patricia Scotland- first black woman to be attorney general
- Claire Ighodaro-a corporate financial executive
- Michelle Ogundehin-editor in chief of Elle Decoration and Real Homes
- Baroness Amos-former leader of the House of Commons
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