Comments on: 25 years since the St Pauls riots http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 16:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Bagham http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-66221 John Bagham Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:39:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-66221 Images from the 1985 Handsworth Riots can be viewed on Digital Handsworth website, local photographer Pogus Caesar was on hand and captured a number images. " search for Handsworth disturbances" Images from the 1985 Handsworth Riots can be viewed on Digital Handsworth website, local photographer Pogus Caesar was on hand and captured a number images. ” search for Handsworth disturbances”

]]> By: Skippy McGee http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-66203 Skippy McGee Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:46:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-66203 Hahahahahaha! I can't wait for WW3 - Britain is finished anyway - it will be nice to make a clean slate of it and see the whole lot of whining enrichers go to heaven and pester the Supreme Being about their handouts and entitlements. Of course, the Supreme Being will probably dispatch them to warmer realms thereafter. Hahahahahaha!

I can’t wait for WW3 - Britain is finished anyway – it will be nice to make a clean slate of it and see the whole lot of whining enrichers go to heaven and pester the Supreme Being about their handouts and entitlements.

Of course, the Supreme Being will probably dispatch them to warmer realms thereafter.

]]> By: detrimental postulation » some things never change http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-66028 detrimental postulation » some things never change Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:26:27 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-66028 [...] Mail editor writes love letters to Hitler. 1980: Daily Telegraph blames Bristol Riots on “race-relations witchfinders and left-wing teachers and social workers.& [...] [...] Mail editor writes love letters to Hitler. 1980: Daily Telegraph blames Bristol Riots on “race-relations witchfinders and left-wing teachers and social workers.& [...]

]]> By: seth edenbaum http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-66011 seth edenbaum Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:14:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-66011 The cover photograph of London Calling was shot on stage at the Palladium in NY on one of a string of nights the band played here. Grandmaster Flash opened for them one night and the booing got so bad Joe Strummer had to come out and gave the audience a lecture. The punk/funk hybrid had been underground until this point. I remember the first time I heard The Gap Band on the p.a. at the Mudd Club. I'm still tempted to think of the multiracialism of Europe as deeper, more well rooted, than in the US, with some exceptions: I've been having the odd thought that Queens, where I live, may be be more like London than Manhattan. The cover photograph of London Calling was shot on stage at the Palladium in NY on one of a string of nights the band played here. Grandmaster Flash opened for them one night and the booing got so bad Joe Strummer had to come out and gave the audience a lecture. The punk/funk hybrid had been underground until this point. I remember the first time I heard The Gap Band on the p.a. at the Mudd Club.
I’m still tempted to think of the multiracialism of Europe as deeper, more well rooted, than in the US, with some exceptions: I’ve been having the odd thought that Queens, where I live, may be be more like London than Manhattan.

]]> By: seth edenbaum http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-65985 seth edenbaum Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:10:27 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-65985 My friends and I in NY were almost jealous, not of the riots per se (well maybe a little) but of the racial mix. But a similar mix was beginning here. The dance floors of the early 80's were the first examples I remember of a popular voluntary interracial social life. Thatcherism as bourgeois revolution "I have lived my adult life at the cutting edge of gentrification" yeah. My friends and I in NY were almost jealous, not of the riots per se (well maybe a little) but of the racial mix.
But a similar mix was beginning here. The dance floors of the early 80’s were the first examples I remember of a popular voluntary interracial social life.

Thatcherism as bourgeois revolution

“I have lived my adult life at the cutting edge of gentrification”

yeah.

]]> By: des von bladet http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-65968 des von bladet Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:47:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/25-years-since-the-st-pauls-riots/#comment-65968 <i>I doubt that even the Telegraph would dare to cover such events in these terms today.</i> I doubt the Mail would hesitate for a second. Since I live in St Pauls---I have lived my adult life at the cutting edge of gentrification---maybe I should incite a riot, in the interests of empiricisme... I doubt that even the Telegraph would dare to cover such events in these terms today.

I doubt the Mail would hesitate for a second. Since I live in St Pauls—-I have lived my adult life at the cutting edge of gentrification—-maybe I should incite a riot, in the interests of empiricisme…

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