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LIGALI Comment

It is hard to understand why the BBC chose to publish such a blatantly dishonest story. Just as African people did not ask to be enslaved or colonised, the African community did not ask for Bristol to say sorry.

In 2006, Britain still remains an inheritantly racist anti-African nation. It is consistently creating a fictitious history of itself as the world’s moral crusader in a transparent attempt to cope with the reality of its inhumane shameful history of human exploitation. As a result the British people refuse to confront the odious legacy they inherit and which is paid for with the blood and soil of Africa and millions of innocent African people.

Unsurprisingly the people of Bristol overwhelmingly decided it would not give Africa an apology even if we had asked for one. We didn't. You chose to explore the idea in preparation of your 2007 Wilberforce celebrations and Labour Party ‘ten years in power’ anniversary, we were diligently preparing for Maafa 2007 without your insipid, insincere and emotionally juvenile political agendas.

For the BBC to compare and give weight to the raised hands of a few hundred people in comparison to the thousands who participated in the phone poll and those who espoused racist anti-African views all week on Bristol’s airwaves is both inaccurate and deliberately disingenuous. More dangerously it grossly misrepresents the views of the ethnic majority further fuelling bigotry and resentment against African people.

In Britain this typically leads to the murder of more innocent African children and the continued propagation of anti-African ideology encapsulated by those who feel morally vindicated in using the n word as a term of violent racist abuse.

So while we do believe there should be an apology, we will only accept it when we believe that Britain is mature enough to face up to its moral responsibilities, when we know it is a sincere and not political act, when it is offered by the British Queen and Government, and when it is preceded by immediate reparation programmes designed to reverse the underdevelopment of our great Continent and reverse the socio-economic inequality afflicting African people throughout the Diaspora.

Finally, we find it intriguing the way that Toyin from Ligali’s role in the debate has been marginalised in media reports. Toyin was undoubtedly the driving force and main contributor of the debate, his brutally honest approach engaged directly with the audience and cultivated the most empathy and honest responses.

Nonetheless it would seem that as well as distorting the facts, many national media institutions are reluctant to let everyone see or hear the debate and judge for themselves the outcome. Ligali is a small organisation in comparison to the BBC and other national media institutions so we wonder what they are scared of.

We need more debates like this not less, we need to eradicate the covert agendas and safe middle class ‘black’ representation, and talk from the heart, with tears and joy as the faux-intellectual pomp is relegated to somewhere on BBC Radio 4. To date only the ever reliable Channel 4/More 4 news has had the courage to not totally mislead the public about our community views.

Either way, we decided to record the entire proceedings so everyone can listen to one of the radio debates and watch the main apology discussion.

Please... take part in the debate they did not want us to see.

Choose the blue pill and remain a modern day assimilated 'black slave' with no possibility of ever attaining equality in your lifetime, or chose the red pill and pay tribute to our AFRICAN ancestors recognise the legacy of the enslavement of Mama Africa, read the letters from Bristol, listen to the radio debate, download the apology discussion, copy and then spread the word.

Maafa 2007
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