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"‘The British Empire did more harm than the Nazis’, Kehinde Andrews’ electrifying bomb delivered direct to Piers Morgan on GMB is the tip of this illuminating iceberg. Launching his latest book in person at St Paul’s Community Centre, Kehinde delves into the mental delirium of white supremacy that infects all society and the lies that keep the beast alive. "
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A event on Wednesday 6th September. The event starts at 18:00.
Take a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness, where Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population as ‘the right (white) man for the job’. Perhaps you know it. All the inhabitants seem to be afflicted by serious delusions, for example that racism doesn’t exist and if it does it can be cured with a one-hour inclusion seminar, and bizarre collective hallucinations, like the widely held idea that Britain’s only role in slavery was to abolish it.
But there is a serious side too. Society cannot face up to the racism at its heart and in its history, so the delusions, irrationalities and hallucinations it conjures up to avoid doing so can only best be described as a psychosis, with the costs being borne by the sons and daughters of that racist history. Living in a racist world is like living in a world that bears no resemblance to reality. Black and brown people suffer from a greater number of mental health difficulties too, caused in no small part by trying to survive a racist society.
Kehinde Andrews is your piercing, wry and not a little funny guide back to sanity, unpicking the absurd and outrageous lies society tells to keep up the status quo. The Psychosis of Whiteness is your lifeboat out of this topsy-turvy world.
Kehinde will be in conversation at a venue in the St Pauls Learning Centre (94 Grosvenor Road, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8XJ) rather than in bookhaus. Tickets cost £5, which includes a £2 discount on the book. This event is in partnership with Afrikan ConneXions Consortium (ACC).
ACC was formed out of the Global Afrikan People’s Parliament in 2016, is a pressure group that seeks to move the standing of Afrikan Heritage Communities in Bristol beyond descriptive to substantive representation, as our strapline says: ‘Beyond Tokenism, Advocating for Power not just Presence in City Affairs’. ACC adopts a reparatory justice approach to its work and is building awareness about Zenzele Village – a community self repair initiative for Afrikan Heritage People seeking National Self Determination, borne out of ACC’s Bristol Pempamsie* Reparations Plan (B-PreP). *Pempamsie is an Akan term and Adinkra symbol popular in West Afrika meaning ‘To knit and Sew Together in Readiness’
Contact us: [email protected]. Follow us: @AfrikanConnex (I/F/T)
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But there is a serious side too. Society cannot face up to the racism at its heart and in its history, so the delusions, irrationalities and hallucinations it conjures up to avoid doing so can only best be described as a psychosis, with the costs being borne by the sons and daughters of that racist history. Living in a racist world is like living in a world that bears no resemblance to reality. Black and brown people suffer from a greater number of mental health difficulties too, caused in no small part by trying to survive a racist society.
Kehinde Andrews is your piercing, wry and not a little funny guide back to sanity, unpicking the absurd and outrageous lies society tells to keep up the status quo. The Psychosis of Whiteness is your lifeboat out of this topsy-turvy world.
Kehinde will be in conversation at a venue in the St Pauls Learning Centre (94 Grosvenor Road, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8XJ) rather than in bookhaus. Tickets cost £5, which includes a £2 discount on the book. This event is in partnership with Afrikan ConneXions Consortium (ACC).
ACC was formed out of the Global Afrikan People’s Parliament in 2016, is a pressure group that seeks to move the standing of Afrikan Heritage Communities in Bristol beyond descriptive to substantive representation, as our strapline says: ‘Beyond Tokenism, Advocating for Power not just Presence in City Affairs’. ACC adopts a reparatory justice approach to its work and is building awareness about Zenzele Village – a community self repair initiative for Afrikan Heritage People seeking National Self Determination, borne out of ACC’s Bristol Pempamsie* Reparations Plan (B-PreP). *Pempamsie is an Akan term and Adinkra symbol popular in West Afrika meaning ‘To knit and Sew Together in Readiness’
Contact us: [email protected]. Follow us: @AfrikanConnex (I/F/T)
Entry requirements:
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