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Friday 29 February 2008

Reparation de Freitas - what do the BBC owe the black population of Britain?

Of all the issues that were linked to the business of slave trading, there is perhaps valid concern in the reparation movement, and reason to assess if those whose lives have been almost irreparably fractured and divided from African culture and then used within Western economies to the benefit of their owners. There have been perhaps three major injustices against the black population who have emigrated from the West Indies to the UK – the first being the enslavement of their forefathers, the second being the racism and the general rejection and hostility that they endured upon arrival in the UK and the third being the bad acting of the de Freitas family on Eastenders in the early 1990’s. There are reparations that are owed for the profits of slavery that maybe will be paid back to the black population. There are also possibly going to be some forms of adjustment to the treatment of the black population that could also be offered to black population in relation to the maltreatment upon arrival in the UK. Finally, there could also be some form of reparation for the portrayal of the black population as the worst actors of all time on Eastenders in the de Freitas family. This is really the most severe of manipulations of black culture and possibly worse than the Black and White Minstrel show. Perhaps one day the BBC will recognise the role they have played in denigrating black culture. What does the BBC owe the black population – are they a collective of the descendents of former slave masters as has been speculated before?

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