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Thoughts on 12 Years A Slave

2/4/2014

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I awoke with some of the images from '12 Years A Slave' seared into my mind. The recent state approved 'assassination' of Mark Duggan and the acquital of the murderer of Trayvon Martin are brutal reminders of the noxious legacy of slavery.... I wrote this a few years ago in the introduction to 'Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity'. 
 "The existence of racism in Britain today and in many parts of the so-called developed West, as we speak, is testament to the continuance of the underlying Eurocentric Judeo-Christian framework that invariably caricatured Africans as 'Less than' and 'the other'...The unfinished business of slavery and its damnable legacy can be seen in the continued impact of racism (slavery's more duplicitous offspring) on Black bodies in contemporary Britain". p.23.
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