deep:black invited London residents to respond to the events in London last week by posting 3 lines on our blog expressing their experiences, feelings or thoughts about what happened.
Have a look at our riot:lyrics unplugged collection and maybe feel inspired? touched? frustrated? confused? understood? or something entirely different...
Have a look at our riot:lyrics unplugged collection and maybe feel inspired? touched? frustrated? confused? understood? or something entirely different...
Free for all as middle aged women grab some swag
Lawlessness calls as the blaze rages
Lawlessness calls as the blaze rages
Chaos goes national but was it all a game of chess?
Kweku Aacht
Fight with the voice not with your hands. Shame on you for violence, shame on you for arson, shame on you for destruction and putting fear in your community. Come together to reason, you cannot defend your actions nor will I hear your excuse.
Anonymous
For all the condemnation of the rioters, nobody looks at themselves to see what they did/didn't do. I'm not agreeing with the rioters/looters, but please remember they come from our communities, they are us.
If we condemn and punish without forgiving and moving forward at the same time they will return just as angry, just as outcast and we will repeat the pattern.
Anonymous
Fight for against oppression doesn't mean you have endanger someone else's life.
There are other ways tell your voice be heard.
Violence shows ignorance and weakness and let your oppressor think they show the world who you really are.
macbern
They burn down shops cos they wanna break out of their box,
they ignite fires but they can't yet feel the fires within themselves,
do we dare delve, to the deepest places where this all started?
Stu
Unity of the people at last Black, White, Asian, Jew, chav, rudeboy, Mother, Father, doctor, lawyer, student, shoulder to shoulder.
But for what Greed, Chaos, Anger, Frustration?
Why can't we The People come together for a positive PURPOSE in our millions instead?
Lisa Djembe
They were from various social and economic settings. They were not looting basic resources such as food and water. Maybe the events of the past few days are proof that the social conditioning of this nation has been very effective. Consumers will do just about anything to achieve self gratification and get shiny new goods! (Good Consumers?)
Anonymous
“A riot is at the bottom the language of the unheard”
“Get up, stand up”, speak up and be heard
One community voice, one choir, one harmony that echoes for our time
Sheila Suso-Runge
"The youth of this era
need to be disciplined accordingly.
No excuses!!! "
Budums
If this is about our young people, guess what? It's about us.
If it's about the breakdown of law & order, materialism and greed, guess what? It's about us.
And even if it's about the politicians, the so-called powers that be, guess what? It's about us. It's about us.
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Out of this Chaos let there be Clarity
Out of this violence let there be Peace
Out of this Destruction let there be Positivity
FB group - Riot Cleanup Tottenham
fast paced emotions, too high, too loud, too unreal
centrifugal power, ever faster, the only choice being drawn in or catapulted out
fast paced moving-on, too thin, too loud, too unreal
petra hilgers
too fast to focus on behaviour...you can't change behaviour without changing thoughts and feelings. you can't engage with people if you don't talk from / empathise with their point of view. the disenfranchised will speak and act with THEIR language. close your mouth - you're not shocked - you're disgusted with yourself for thinking they'd remain unheard and unseen. poor judgement call for you - what you gonna do?
Spirited Strength
devoid of love - divide us and rule us
looting and destroying?
look who got there first
Val Archer
political faces, bullys in dark places, grief from the street taking on the institutions and the beat, hurt and pain crying what does it take to be human again,
Joseph D
Imagine not caring about the consequences
Nothing could be worse than now
Of course, I don’t care, I have nothing to lose
Natalie
Young people with no future criminalised on mass
Greedy politicians call for them to be hung
Its time for people with a heart to speak out.
Anonymous
Don't try to put this fire out!
It's bigger than you it's bigger than me and I know what I'm talking about.
Warming the cold lighting the dark and like every roaring blaze it grew from a little spark
Tom Currie
There is true injustice in our broken society, which remains invisible, unless you scratch beneath the surface. Join hands, work together and mend these broken hearts.
Dx
glossed by TV, she couldn't miss her opportunity,
to be famous for a few mins and smash windows with disused bins,
her angered face on government CCTV - all and sundry were there to see,
her guilt and shame absent for she says she was hungry.
her life is now a media feast afraid of those who acted like beasts,
a lesson she will never really learn, because her world was already a fire to burn.
beverley
Fists jerk, knee-jerk. Privileged voices with no understanding call for less understanding and more condemnation. Slam shut the cell door and slap on the plaster; but the wound still festers.
Nick
A country heated by the fires of youth;
Without hope, justice or success, in truth.
Their failures and despondency transmitted across the globe for the world to see,
teenagers - black and white - rushing for plasma TVs.
Strive for a better place, strive for better futures, but I beg you please, don't lose our community strength for a pair of Footlocker sneakers.
beverley
lives blighted - from the right and from the left, the wrath of the people who have been left bereft, hunger or greed? what's the cause of their plight? no-one really knows why London was set alight on those fateful nights. respect the unrespected, judge not in your haste. our capital city was ablaze - a revolution may have taken place.
beverly
The London riots shed some of light to some of the economic problems faced by young people in UK. The question now is what will happen next? In the words of Malcolm X "Truth is on the side of the oppressed".
Farah
The Riots in London that quickly spread to other parts of the Uk
Are a sign of our uneasy times,
Young people should be listened to, recognised and supported.
The Riots are more than just 'mindless violence' but are collective expression in the form of anger and destruction.
Let's try to give them some hope back.
Martha McAlpine
There is a riotous tenderness in my heart
It is not allowed out, it is unwanted
It is swallowed
Underneath, hiding its beauty
Causing ripples and Obfuscations
Just a flash in the pan
Because to be really seen
Is just too scary, man
So get out of my face
Get it
Edward Nelson
Like a scorpion in a ring of fire,
Stabbing at itself with poisonous venom
Confused and frightened
Heat and bright lights make a pretty prison
But who started the fire?
Smothering smoke clouds all thought and reason
Rita Walters
Outraged we were to find our own lawmakers
there in the sack with hacks who hack, connivin with cold-blooded lawbreakers
yay these are the people now to put our house in order
“such pleasant well-dressed criminals - not like those lawless marauders!”
BeeGirl
Oh No
Oh God
Why?
Irene Grindell
What happens to us
parents if our kids
know no fear?
Ruth
Riot! sick and tired of the piece and quiet,
we're hungry, tired of being drip fed, no leaders no followers are we the living dead?
lied to with no right to, and no light to what our voice said...
so we going out to the venue called mob rule,
Where Cocktails are molitoff its old school! Thats free on the house too!...
and if you on the same strip that's 3 more to your house fool! Coming through your shop windows, taking whatever goes then smiling for the camera with a cute pose!
Street beefs the main dish
Lootings the 3rd course
any signs of weakness,
geeza your mine gowg!
Yo but hear what, you think your big in diss dont you know da bwoy dem were ordered to let it riff!
Its Organized confusion...
What's that called problem reaction solution, they create the problem we react and then they shoot them? them is us, us is we, and we rebuke them! Send them back to the caves where they come from either that or continue with the serfdom are you a real man or a straw man what's real dan? Guns, gold and a get away plan!
Stephen Thornhill
Speak to me on the telephone
Listen to me on the microphone
Make sure I’m not home alone
When change is going on
Catch me up on the street
Step up with me in a heartbeat
Make sure it’s a rhythmic treat
When change is going on
When the moon shines down and its night
When the sun rises up and its bright
people get ready, get right
when a change is going on
Sheila Suso-Runge