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Ripples [Video]

A short film about being Black in Britain

September 25, 2020 by The Editors Leave a Comment

By Adam Savva

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A Short Film where Spoken Word Artist Paul Gialo and I teamed up to create a visual poem about being black in Britain, the racism he notices in the country, the importance of the Black Lives Matter Protests and his own personal experiences with racism.

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Transcript provided by YouTube:

00:03

i know a place

00:07

a place that literally whipped away your

00:10

roots

00:14

your identity

00:17

[Music]

00:19

a place where protesting the wrongs

00:24

grazed upon you by the flag jeopardize

00:26

your livelihood

00:30

a place where people are ghettoized and

00:33

fetishized and more and more daughter he

00:35

can get

00:36

shot while he’s out for exercise

00:40

a place where black childhood often

00:42

never turns into black adulthood and

00:43

black

00:44

fatherhood often tarnishes black

00:45

motherhood a place

00:50

where black brotherhood often means

00:53

killing each other to play a system

00:55

designed like a bad casino game to

00:57

benefit everybody

01:00

but you

01:04

and when i think about it a tear races

01:06

down my cheek

01:07

but not too fast in case it’s mistaken

01:10

for a burglar

01:11

or a drug deal and shot into next week

01:17

you ever wonder why it’s raheem sterling

01:19

and meghan markle

01:21

and not katie hopkins

01:24

you ever wonder why dave’s brit’s

01:26

performance was loathed by so many that

01:28

were watching

01:30

[Music]

01:32

it’s the elephant in the room

01:37

the world’s a sea of emotions and

01:39

cascading waterfalls

01:40

[Music]

01:43

when you start to understand dynamic in

01:45

how we live

01:48

you start to see the pandemic in how we

01:51

live

01:52

to listen but not understand to judge

01:54

[Music]

01:57

and not comprehend

02:01

saying to the future supposedly this

02:04

tempest of fear and depravity

02:10

but fear drowns more dreams than failure

02:12

ever will

02:16

we have to realize that to rebuild trust

02:21

we have to use the one thing that

02:22

conquers all

02:24

[Music]

02:26

us

02:30

picture me 15 years old being stopped in

02:34

search for the first time

02:38

can you imagine my dread thinking i

02:41

shouldn’t have worn this black hoodie

02:42

with the green jacket on the bed i’m

02:45

trying to keep my cool

02:46

running bobsled and brown bread and

02:48

warheads but it was dressed in black and

02:49

white like nedved

02:54

all part of these random thoughts

02:56

running around my mind so i thought to

02:58

myself for a clearer head i should sue

03:00

the fed

03:04

[Music]

03:06

and i’m protecting my identity i see

03:09

three and i’ll stop when hell freezes

03:11

over

03:12

i see where three gold chains that’s an

03:15

ic3 ic2 i see you i

03:18

see me i see us i see everything that i

03:20

am

03:21

and everything that you will make me

03:26

i see change

03:28

[Music]

03:30

i see the ripples

03:33

of prosperity

03:51

[Music]

04:33

you

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