FACT

Love is like a rollercoaster. You just got to ride it. It can also make you experience giddiness and nausea, can stain your trousers and leave you feeling somehow empty afterwards.

FACT: Jack Bauer has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.

FACT: Mandingo doesn't sleep. He waits

Fact:

The Y chromosome carries the gene for hairy ears.....therefore, if you're male and your daddy has hairy ears then you will also have hairy ears when you grow older. If your daddy doesn't have hairy ears...then you won't get hairy ears either!!

FACT: Romantic love is a mental illness.

Lee Jasper and Ken Livingstone welcomed this man to London in July 2004. Here he is in his own words on the subject of suicide bombings, speaking on Newsnight, on BBC National television on 7 July 2004:



" ... It's not suicide, it is martyrdom in the name of God, Islamic theologians and jurisprudents have debated this issue. Referring to it as a form of jihad, under the title of jeopardising the life of the mujahideen. It is allowed to jeopardise your soul and cross the path of the enemy and be killed ..."

(Source: BBC Newsnight transcript).

Here is what happened in London on 7 July 2005:









In October 2003, Lee Jasper and Ken Livingstone banned this man from appearing on the platform of a "Black History Conference":



Professor Tony Martin has no record of advocating, endorsing or supporting acts of terrorism, but is a Professor of Africana Studies and generally acknowledged as the planet's leading authority on the life and work of The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

Why did Livingstone and Jasper welcome Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi to London, but ban Professor Tony Martin from speaking at a Black History Conference 10 months earlier?



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I love you're posts @MGL, always a pleasure reading them.

... "Interesting" or just a damned disgrace?...



Lynched by 11 Asians,
22 October 2005, aged 24 ...
only 3 people charged with
his murder to date!



Organisation that actively campaigns for cultural,
economic, political and social justice on behalf of
the African community

To: Ligali
Date: 2 November 2005
Subject: taking responsibility

Dear Toyin

Ligali and some other Black media outlets must take some responsibility in fueling a climate of race hatred.

Instead of showing leadership to African people by targeting its attention to potential criminals Ligali -by calling for an Asian boycott - sort (sic) to demonise a whole continent of people over an incident which may or not have happened.

Its present rethoric is in danger of doing the same again over the murder of Ishiah Young-Sam.

For a long time Ligali has been a positive force in the British Black community. It must live up to that high standard and not behave like right wing groups that take the actions of a few to stereotype a generation.

Simon Woolley
Director OBV



"Operation Black Vote is a non-party political campaign, supported by a broad coalition of mainly Black organisations ... The term 'Black' is a political term. It refers to African, Asian, Caribbean and other ethnic minorities."

"When I first came to London from Leicester 20 years ago, I got a job with a company based in Redbridge and the boss happened to be Jewish. In Leicester, the only time that you met a Jew was in a joke. As schoolchildren we'd say, 'Don't be a Jew, give me a sweet'. But you never associated such comments with a people.

Working with Jewish people I did understand very quickly that there was a vernacular and a discourse that I needed to adopt to belong. The street vernacular: It's a schlepp over there; don't be a schnorer. I used go to the Schvitz with my Jewish friends and the team of schmeissers, we used to take turns and give each other a rub down with the lulluf, and you used call someone a schmooser and a lulluf on the phone.

I got very close to this group and I used to go to Bar Mitzvahs and family celebrations. I remember one particular Bar Mitzvah when there was a knock on the door and the Mohel walks in to this house full of Jewish people there and the first thing he does is call out 'Simon, what are you doing here?' And where I knew him from was down the Schvitz.

But there is the prevailing legacy of racism. I was invited round to the boss' house for dinner on a Friday night with all his family. And they asked me how I was getting on with my flat, and I said. 'It's all right but he's a right Jew'. And everybody just stopped eating their food, and I realised what I'd said. What I'd meant to say was 'He's mean'. I realised what I'd said. I apologized. I explained that I was from Leicester and they said they understood, they knew me to be a good man, but from that moment on I realised that people can say it's only a joke but it isn't. We're still friends to this day."



Simon Woolley of
The Black Jewish Forum

Who is he really
working for?