Successes Happen Too!

I've just finished watching a programme on Channel Four which followed a young black women in London setting up a business of her own. She opened an Internet cafe where people could come and record music in the attached studio for so much an hour. At first, business was slow: the problem being that no one knew about the shop, and there was no Internet connection. After calling in technical support, she recorded an advert for radio and soon business was booming, as they say. By the end of the programme, she was talking of opening up other similar shops across London.

After feeling compelled to write something about Fergal Keane's chapter on the Rwandan genocide last night, it feels good to be able to write about someones success. Without realising it, the lady had made a stand for black Britain. With the help of her father, she was able to promote a genre of music which is a soundtrack to coloured people's lives in Britain. Urban Britain is a more colourful place (no pun intended) thanks to the artistic and creative minds of ethnic minorities, able to assert themselves on a national level through their artistic endeavours. Hip hop, RnB, dancehall, reggae &c. give black people in Britain an identity. If they have an identity, they become visible to the national consciousness. Such an identity won't stop racism, but it will make speaking out against racist behaviour easier, and racism will be tolerated less.

The success of black women in Britain makes our society better.

Yours, wherever you may be,
Daniel C. Wright