Posted on 18 March 2009. Tags: Literature, Poetry, Police, SUS laws, Stop and Search, black writers, raymondobe, short stories, writers, writing

Same old Same old
The Streets are always watching.
That night,as I lay on my bed listening to the dogs bark,
I began to wonder how much more I could take, and I began to get a terrible feeling inside my chest and a tightness at the back of my throat, and I jerked upright with my head spinning and stared into the ...
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Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Black, Community, Education, Lee Jasper, London, SUS laws, Stop and Search, justice, schools

Such is the crisis within our community I am convinced of the need for schools that meet the pedagogic needs of young black people. Such is the nature of this crisis that we lose to many of our young people to the criminal justice system, mental health institutions, murder and disability as victims of violent ...
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