Intellectual Militantism

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The drops of rain that are part of Bristol’s environment are hardly conducive to rustic musings on life. The again, what environment is really right for the black intellectual to marinate over the state of humanity ? So many people before us such as Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis were all intellectual militants, using the power of the word to get their point across about the problem(s) facing the black diaspora. The problem is, do we still actually need this genre of intellectual militantism anymore ? And does it exist ?

NuAmerykah & Afros

Do you ever…

go to the cinema by yourself? I went to the cinema yesterday to take a break from thinking about dissertations and I decided to go see ‘the Other Boleyn Girl’, which features Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. The film was…enjoyable! I know it did not get great reviews but sometimes mediocre films serve the purpose you need: entertainment. Yesterday, I felt like being entertained after feeling so down and I got exactly that.

BBC2 & the ‘White’ season: Part I Reviews

(Preface: the following is my opinion on the programs. If you have seen them, please share your views in the comment section. This is a long post btw) 

So I have watched 2 programs of the ‘White’ season on BBC2. The first program was called Last Orders and was about the crumbling financial state of a working men’s club in the northern town of Bradford. Bradford is in Yorkshire. The only towns in Yorkshire I have visited are Leeds and Sheffield and as far as I know, they are the only 2 beacons of the county seeing that they have undergone heavy regentation. Ethnic minorities are visible in Leeds and Sheffield and Bradford, although the latter suffered race riots in 2001 between white people and Asians.