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Veteran community activist/historian Bro Cecil Gutzmore dissects Crime & Policing historically and in light of the Sewell Commission Report
This is a BTWSC/African Histories Revisited Open Voice Open Space presentation, where we facilitate spaces for pundits and commentators to have their say.
This is a BTWSC/African Histories Revisited Open Voice Open Space presentation, where we facilitate spaces for pundits and commentators to have their say. Now that the noise surrounding the Tony Sewell Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report for Boris Johnson's government has quietened down, veteran community activist, historian and former university lecturer Bro Cecil Gutzmore, will provide a critical, analysis not only of the Sewell Commission report, but also the role of PM Boris Johnson, former PM aide Dominic Cummings and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick within Britain's Crime Policing narrative, and how that inter-plays with the British African communities.
This presentation will focus on the contrast and connection between the following:-
1. Claims/assertion by the Sewell Commission relating to "Crime Policing"
1.1. This chapter aims to demonstrate what drives these disparities and propose ways of addressing them with a focus on 4 areas: [including] re-establishing mutual trust between communities and police service areas:
1.2. The data consistently highlights the over-representation of ethnic minority groups - both as perpetrators and victims - when it come s to hate crime, violent crime and drug-related offences. Police workforce diversity figures... remain low. Past injustices still loom large in perception of the police in for some ethnic minority Britons, especially Black Caribbean people.
2. Now historical remarks from within the Afrikan-Caribbean Community relating to "Crime Policing"
2.1. "... Stuart Hall reminded us that in the 1950s and '60s the police were saying of the West Indian community that we were particularly law-abiding. As late as 1967 when I went to work in Lambeth, the Brixton police said that there were only two problems they had withWest Indians. First, the police wanted them to solve their domestic affairs, which as the police they could not do, and second black people had noisy parties at weekends! As far as crime was concerned the police reported no problem. I wonder if anybody would say such a thing about Brixton today. If that is so, it's a powerful comment on what society has done to Black People between 1967 and 1986 [Not to mention 2020/21] if we believe what we are told, we have changed from a law-abiding set of people into people who commit crimes and are bursting to riot."
By George Greaves in The Roots of Urban Unrest, J. Benton and J. Solomos, Editors, Pergamon Press, 1987, 99
The monstrously false nature of the narrative that racist Perfidious Albion has mobilised the
Askaris of the Dr Tony Sewell chaired Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparity is what is at state.
Cecil Gutzmore (August 2021)
PLEASE NOTE: Bro Cecil Gutzmore will be providing a historical analysis, based on his long experience of community work, since the late 1960s...We're offering a 30% off discount if you book the first 11 of the events in one go, by booking MondayXHS2021 1st 11 Events Discount Hub here. Plus 35% off discount by booking all 13 events in one go here.
PROGRAMME:Nov. 8 Police And The Criminalising Of British African Youths By Numbers 2. Guest Speaker: Veteran community activist, historian and educator Bro Cecil GutzmoreHistory consultant Kwaku leads with a video mash up presentation that highlights little-known and cause célèbre cases involving the police, the criminal justice system and groups of criminalised African youths, such as Waterloo Four, Tottenham Court Road Two, Stockwell Six, Oval Four, Mangrove Nine, Thornton Heath 15 and Bonfire Night 12.Bro Cecil Gutzmore is a veteran community activist, historian and educator, a former University of West Indies lecturer whose work within the British African community activism stretches back to the late 1960s. He gives his take on several of the cases, some of which he has a personal experience of.Followed by a discussion moderated by community activist Nana Asante.In solidarity with all who have been victims of the police's misuse of the sus law.Here is our African History Season 2021 Monday Xtra History Sessions programme with Kwaku's exclusive video-assisted opening presentations (book at https://AfricanHistoryPlus.eventbrite.com):
Sep. 30 Police Criminalising Of African Youths guest presenter Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Oct. 4 THE Reggae Fun, History, Music, Quiz Prizes Event! guest presenter Colin 'CeeBee' Brown
Oct. 11 Interrogating Language 4: Identity, Decolonising, Reparations; Araning Pan-Africanism: Should Africans Have African Names?
Oct. 18 London African History Through Representations In The Capital
Oct. 25 Today Brixton Is Locked Off: The Day Black Lives Matter Shut Down Brixton
Nov. 1 Where Would Reggae Be If It Were Not For Migration?
Nov. 8 Police Criminalising Of African Youths guest presenter Bro Cecil Gutzmore
Nov. 15 1974: That Carib Club Story And Other Clubland Horror Histories
Nov. 22 Marking The Centenary Of 1921 Pan-African Congress In London
Nov. 29 The True History Of African/Black History Month In The UK
Dec. 6 African History In Britain: Those Who Built The Foundation
Dec. 13 The Men With Ships And Preaching Back To Africa Before Marcus Garvey
Dec. 20 UK African Women Self-Organising (Marking the 57th anniversary of the passing of Claudia Jones. Special guests t.b.c)
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Produced by BTWSC/African Histories Revisited in association with BBM/BMC (BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress), TAOBQ (The African Or Black Question), and Reggae Fraternity UK.