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PLANTING THE SEED

THIS IS ABOUT YOU. THIS IS ABOUT ME. THIS IS ABOUT US. DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN?

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Welcome to the Sounds of the SURGE. Having watched SURGE, I'm glad you've decided to spread your own seeds. I want you to begin by making sure your physical seeds are safe and nesting in soil and a pot. These seeds with grow alongside you as you begin your journey with me.... Now that you physical seeds are safe, let's spread our own seeds.

 

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In Frantz Fanon’s society, his identity ‘imposes discrimination on me, makes me a colonised native, robs me of all worth, all individuality, tells me that I am a parasite on the world, that I must bring myself quickly into step with the white world’ (Fanon, 1986, p98) Fanon seem to live in a world which feels ‘that his race no longer understands him. Or that he no longer understands it.’ (Fanon, 1986, p16) A society where identity is so misplaced that those classed as ‘other’ feel attacked, both mentally as well as sometimes physically through prejudice and discrimination. Not only are the Western World troubled and confused by the ‘Other’ but the ‘Other’ are now confused by themselves. They are no longer able to fathom who they are within society. ‘In the colonial situation, Fanon stresses, this logic finds its equivalent expression: Turn white or disappear’ (Alessandrini, 1999, p.22) Although Fanon wrote about experiences so many years ago, a lot of the feelings he notices are still relevant to people with in the UK in our society.

BRUTALITY

WARNING - SCENES OF REAL EVIDENCE OF BRUTALITY

PHILANDO CASTILE

RICHARD HUBBARD III

SANDRA BLAND

JACQUELINE CRAIG

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