Told Bonnie all about it- 2009

Bonnie Grier is now an ORDER of The British Empire!

The tone of her acceptance speech sounded less than enthusiastic leading me to immediately think of the Alibi-Brown debacle (Yasmin Alibi-Brown was famously awarded an honour which she accepted graciously in gushing terms before handing it back 2 years later making her a worse hypocrite than Diane Abbot) I’ll give Bonnie a chance, as I hope she will be a cause for some good like Shami Chakrabarti who was also awarded an honour soon after I met and gave her a signed copy of The 4th Bomb.

Her book Obama Music evoked tales about the migration of former slaves in America’s  South to Northern states like Chicago in the 50′s and 60′s where she grew up in a community wrestling with echoes of Jack Crow laws and lynchings, yet now she runs into the arms of the very ones who enshrined slavery in law in the first place!

She has consolidated her place as one of the few black cultural voices, but she is being used by the fascist state to berate Nick Griffin and his ilk, a state which offers an open door immigration policy and trumpets its diversity directives while engaging in immigration based politics at election times.