Brothers and sisters am i lost and i don't know what to do.
I am 17 years old living in London going to college getting ready to go university next year.
The situation is that in college we have morning and evening registrations, and in those registrations we have presentations.
I have been here a year and a half, and everyday we watch clips on how poor Africa is, how Crime is high, disease every where, children starving, basically always making Black people look like charity cases.
Now I grew in jamaica and my friend grew up in nigeria and we already know this isn't true and we are trying.
We asked why do you always make us look like all we want is charity, and we are dependent on european intervention. why can't you show people such as garvey, ken sawo wiwa, bob marley, fela kuti. People in our countries that sacrificed themselves for us, show our peoples culture and traditons, and how there are people like us trying to make a difference.
Instead they tell us to shut up, and how ungrateful we are, how we don't know anything, how their educating us about us our people and how we think were better than people in Afrika, thats why we don't wana hear it.
they don't even wana give us black history month.
And now their trying to kick us out, bring our parents in saying that were ungrateful in trying to challenge the system which "apparently" is taking care of us.
i don't whether i should give up and kiss her *** to get to university or try prove my point and risk getting kicked out.
what should i do?
This sounds about right....there is no free speech in the UK.
@thread starter: If you are interested, i could link you up with a few black people your age and who are in college (over here) who can provide with support and insight..
