In this episode, I talk about the need for community amongst Black people, and how our hyper-individualism is akin to the theory of the bootstrap and infects the progression of the community as a whole. Starting from the exclusionary nature of mainstream institutions (in school) and how this discrimination affects the ability of Black people to escape poverty and achieve milestones like property ownership that affect the Black community. I also talk about the failures in the semantic understanding of 'pro-blackness' as a copout from real collective change.

Links mentioned:

Black Ballad article: School to Prison pipeline article by Mel Green: https://blackballad.co.uk/views-voices/school-to-prison-pipeline?listIds=598b26616409a286334e51bc&referrerType=article&referrerSource=related

BBC Documentary: 'Subnormal: A British Scandal' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w81h

Data on remittances: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrant-remittances-to-and-from-the-uk/#:~:text=The%20UK%20not%20only%20sends,to%200.2%25%20of%20its%20GDP. 

Boris Johnson's fund for education: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57320450