African Enslavement; Why Only Half the Story Has Ever Been Told… 25 March marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yet for the modern African diaspora, this is not simply a matter of remembrance. It is

Today ie the UN’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, I’ve written something I’ve carried for a long time.

This is not an easy read.

It was never meant to be.

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Burned. Rebuilt. Burned Again. What Happened to Belfast’s Multicultural Centre Should Alarm the Whole UK

Belfast Multicultural Centre: Burned. Rebuilt. Burned Again. open.substack.com/pub/leejaspe...

48. A number every Black family should remember.

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48 Times More Likely Stop and Search, Democratic Failure and the Case for a London Policing Charter

London cannot keep pretending this is normal.

We are now 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in parts of the capital.

Yet the numbers tell a very different story.

I have written a new piece examining what these figures really mean.

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48 Times More Likely Stop and Search, Democratic Failure and the Case for a London Policing Charter

48 times?

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Trump: The Ape Trope and the Poverty of White Supremacist Imagination A historical analysis of how comparing Black people to apes became a tool of racial dehumanisation — and why its resurgence should alarm us all

The Monkey trope is back. You should be terrified.
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Trump: The Ape Trope and the Poverty of White Supremacist Imagination A historical analysis of how comparing Black people to apes became a tool of racial dehumanisation — and why its resurgence should alarm us all

Trump: The Ape Trope and the Poverty of White Supremacist Imagination. open.substack.com/pub/leejaspe...

@leejasper.bsky.social will join us on Monday for the launch of Pull The Plug! You don’t want to miss this.

🗓️Monday 2nd February
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When Racism Starts Travelling Back in Time The killing of Chris Kaba and the quiet rewriting of police accountability By Lee Jasper

When racism starts travelling back in time, accountability is the first casualty.

My new Substack essay on the killing of Chris Kaba. Police accountability is now being reshaped after the fact.

It’s a serious argument about power, law and consent. open.substack.com/pub/leejaspe...

Blaming Diversity for the Met’s Vetting Failures Is a Culture War Lie Why the weakening of vetting standards had nothing to do with diversity and everything to do with leadership failure, absent lived experience and the soft bigotry of low expectations

Blaming Diversity And Black Communities for the Met’s Police Vetting Failures Is a Culture War Lie.

The Evening Standard "Black Child Rapist" Headline Is Utterly Vile. My Latest Substack . open.substack.com/pub/leejaspe...

Mr Lee Jasper Snr (@leejaspersnr) We need a new approach to politics - the old ways are failing and we\re heading for ecological, political, economic and social disaster. The question is what to be done? This my response. Love to...

We need a new approach to politics - the old ways are failing and we\re heading for ecological, political, economic and social disaster.

The question is what to be done?

Love to hear your views. I will respond to anyone who takes the time to read and comment.

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