This week's BRITS performances from Stormzy and Dave represented what it means to be black and British today 🙌🙌
However, it is important to note, that whilst many black British people celebrated the expressions of our culture and concerns on stage on Tuesday night, certain demographics sought to diminish it. According to spiked-online, Dave being upset about racism in this country means that he’s a “woke,” “Guardianista” who only calls out racism because it’s now popular to do so. Dave, in other words, is, what some who lean to the right derisively call “stunning and brave.
Stormzy, Dave and so many of us are tired of being told to not talk about racism, to be grateful that we’re here, to only call out the most obvious, n-word shouting “real racism” and repeat sycophantically over and over again that Britain is the “most tolerant country” in Europe.
Pointing out the race issues in other countries whilst ignoring our own is like standing outside to stare at your neighbour’s house on fire whilst yours is burning down too. Ignoring issues leads to more chaos and disruption, not equality and justice. That’s why it’s so important that Dave in particular not only highlighted what it means to be black British on Tuesday night but exposed many of the very real problems our community still face in the U.K. too.
Black Britishness was projected all across the world on Tuesday night, in all of its pain and glory, and, despite the wishes of some we’re not going away and getting quieter, we’re surviving and thriving and building legacies. We are doing and are going to do so many things that our ancestors in the British plantations and the colonies could only dream of.
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