ktlight
5th June 2011, 11:01
FYI:
So, what’s next for the Big Brainwashing Challenge for Black and Brown Children? You’ve guessed it kids; it’s your favourite hip-hop and R ‘n’ B radio DJ, Tim Westwood, broadcasting LIVE from a British military camp in Afghanistan!
The day after I wrote an article on the BBC’s disgraceful censorship of a Bigz freestyle on Charlie Sloth’s 1Xtra show, in which the words ‘Gaza Strip’ had been edited out, the freestyle was re-uploaded in its full, uncensored form. For a second, I thought the BBC might be wanting to divert attention from their blatant, consistent use of bias throughout their reporting but, alas, I thought wrong. The British Broadcasting Corporation have, once again, proved their value as an instrument of imperialist propaganda.
Since the words ‘Free Palestine’ were censored from a Mic Righteous freestyle, also on 1Xtra radio, the excuses have been repeated over and over again; preserving ‘impartiality’, and the need to present both sides of the story. The Tim Westwood coverage, from Camp Bastion, where British soldiers occupying Afghanistan are stationed, blows each one of these fake explanations out of the water. There is nothing ‘impartial’ about a broadcast from a military base. Where are the voices of the Afghan resistance, who are fighting to get a foreign occupier out of their country? Where is the Afghan ‘side of the story’?
Meanwhile, Tim Westwood has been busy boasting about the expedition, which also included a stop off at the ‘Minhad military base in the Dubai desert’, on his Twitter account; “big up all the troops!” he writes in one post. Another post, with a link to photographs from the Camp, includes a picture of a white-board which reads, “WESTWOOD QUOTE OF THE DAY: DROP A BOMB!” The irony might be funny, if it were not for the Afghan men, women and children who have been killed and maimed by our bombs. I wonder how their families would react to the ‘Big Dog’s’ Big Quotes? Tim Westwood’s words, in my estimation, amount to an encouragement of human rights violations, and betray a perverse desire to prolong an already bloody, murderous invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.
Tim Westwood has proven that he does not represent hip-hop culture in any way, shape or form. From the days of Public Enemy, KRS-One and Dead Prez, hip-hop has always been about fighting the power, and resisting against the powers that seek to divide us. Let us ask ourselves, how would the Black Panthers of 1970’s United States have reacted. We have to look no further than their ten-point program:
“8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.”
Westwood will never represent the most oppressed sections of our society; those who are the victims of the same ideology that drives our wars in foreign lands, of inequality and white, British supremacy. He does not even support the white, working-class families, whose sons and daughters are being used as cannon-fodder for a war in a country we know nothing about. Almost every day we see soldiers being flown home from Afghanistan in caskets, but Westwood wants them to stay there for even longer.
As for BBC 1Xtra, the self-professed home of black music, it’s credibility has been tarnished beyond repair.
source
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/03/tim-westwood-the-war-monger/
So, what’s next for the Big Brainwashing Challenge for Black and Brown Children? You’ve guessed it kids; it’s your favourite hip-hop and R ‘n’ B radio DJ, Tim Westwood, broadcasting LIVE from a British military camp in Afghanistan!
The day after I wrote an article on the BBC’s disgraceful censorship of a Bigz freestyle on Charlie Sloth’s 1Xtra show, in which the words ‘Gaza Strip’ had been edited out, the freestyle was re-uploaded in its full, uncensored form. For a second, I thought the BBC might be wanting to divert attention from their blatant, consistent use of bias throughout their reporting but, alas, I thought wrong. The British Broadcasting Corporation have, once again, proved their value as an instrument of imperialist propaganda.
Since the words ‘Free Palestine’ were censored from a Mic Righteous freestyle, also on 1Xtra radio, the excuses have been repeated over and over again; preserving ‘impartiality’, and the need to present both sides of the story. The Tim Westwood coverage, from Camp Bastion, where British soldiers occupying Afghanistan are stationed, blows each one of these fake explanations out of the water. There is nothing ‘impartial’ about a broadcast from a military base. Where are the voices of the Afghan resistance, who are fighting to get a foreign occupier out of their country? Where is the Afghan ‘side of the story’?
Meanwhile, Tim Westwood has been busy boasting about the expedition, which also included a stop off at the ‘Minhad military base in the Dubai desert’, on his Twitter account; “big up all the troops!” he writes in one post. Another post, with a link to photographs from the Camp, includes a picture of a white-board which reads, “WESTWOOD QUOTE OF THE DAY: DROP A BOMB!” The irony might be funny, if it were not for the Afghan men, women and children who have been killed and maimed by our bombs. I wonder how their families would react to the ‘Big Dog’s’ Big Quotes? Tim Westwood’s words, in my estimation, amount to an encouragement of human rights violations, and betray a perverse desire to prolong an already bloody, murderous invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.
Tim Westwood has proven that he does not represent hip-hop culture in any way, shape or form. From the days of Public Enemy, KRS-One and Dead Prez, hip-hop has always been about fighting the power, and resisting against the powers that seek to divide us. Let us ask ourselves, how would the Black Panthers of 1970’s United States have reacted. We have to look no further than their ten-point program:
“8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.”
Westwood will never represent the most oppressed sections of our society; those who are the victims of the same ideology that drives our wars in foreign lands, of inequality and white, British supremacy. He does not even support the white, working-class families, whose sons and daughters are being used as cannon-fodder for a war in a country we know nothing about. Almost every day we see soldiers being flown home from Afghanistan in caskets, but Westwood wants them to stay there for even longer.
As for BBC 1Xtra, the self-professed home of black music, it’s credibility has been tarnished beyond repair.
source
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/03/tim-westwood-the-war-monger/