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Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie

@jacquimckenzie6

Migration, Reparations & Human Rights @leighday_law
Caribbean & Latin American histories & societies, & founder & curator of the Voices of Windrush Festival

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9 months ago

On turning down an #OBE, Benjamin Zephaniah (RIP) wrote "Up yours, I thought ... I get angry when I hear that word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised..."

On turning down an #OBE, Benjamin Zephaniah (RIP) wrote "Up yours, I thought ... I get angry when I hear that word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised..."