This is how we were in 1981 Belfast / Birmingham and Coventry and more recently in 2011 when they burned parts of Tottenham (North London) and the Carpet Shop in Croydon (South London) down...
Its more about poverty than immigration...and for a kid, seeming to have not much of a chance - regardless of whether black or white...and if you are a kid at school falling in love, and just asking for a date - and you are distraught, far more upset about that, than the police hitting you, with a truncheon cos you got caught up in a riot, and the buses weren't running cos Birmingham (England) was on fire and you couldn't smell the smoke. And were just walking home alone from school.
Very fast moving, and also very funny. Dunno if Cat Litter can convert cheap Red Diesel for Farmers to Expensive Clear Diesel for Cars, but most of the other stuff about Fertilisers is probably True...
As is the Music bringing kids of all colours together to make friends and Dance.
About the only decent thing the BBC did before this was The Old Grey Whistle Test... but they have excelled themselves here...and so have we, our kids, and our grandkids
It's not about the colour of your skin. It's about the person you are and music, art and dance and working together to solve problems, create useful things not burning the place down.
Its more about poverty than immigration...and for a kid, seeming to have not much of a chance - regardless of whether black or white...and if you are a kid at school falling in love, and just asking for a date - and you are distraught, far more upset about that, than the police hitting you, with a truncheon cos you got caught up in a riot, and the buses weren't running cos Birmingham (England) was on fire and you couldn't smell the smoke. And were just walking home alone from school.
Very fast moving, and also very funny. Dunno if Cat Litter can convert cheap Red Diesel for Farmers to Expensive Clear Diesel for Cars, but most of the other stuff about Fertilisers is probably True...
As is the Music bringing kids of all colours together to make friends and Dance.
About the only decent thing the BBC did before this was The Old Grey Whistle Test... but they have excelled themselves here...and so have we, our kids, and our grandkids
It's not about the colour of your skin. It's about the person you are and music, art and dance and working together to solve problems, create useful things not burning the place down.