Anti-Racist Festival
Published by deviousdiva July 1st, 2006 in Personal.The 11th Anti-Racism Festival will be taking place this weekend in Protomagia Square, (Pedion tou Areos) in Athens. There will be music, dance, discussions, screenings, exhibitions and food from around the world. New Model Army will be playing on Saturday and Socrates Malamas will perform on Sunday. Go along and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Thanks for the reminder!
The festival has a website: http://www.antiracistfestival.gr/
Maybe I’ll be there today (Sunday), would like to see Socrates Malamas.
AFIEROMENO………….
IN HONOYR OF THE FESTIVAL………………..
This poem was nominated poem of 2005
for the best poem, written by an
African kid………good thoughts!!!
>When I born, I Black,
>When I grow up, I Black,
>When I go in Sun, I Black,
>When I scared, I Black,
>When I sick, I Black,
>And when I die, I still black..
>And you White fella,
>When you born, you Pink,
>When you grow up, you White,
>When you go in Sun, you Red,
>When you cold, you Blue,
>When you scared, you Yellow,
>When you sick, you Green,
>And when you die, you Gray..
>
>And you calling me Colored ??
Aly El Sahly
I JUST LOVED THIS ,, AND TO THINK I’M WHITE…
……….WHEN REALLY I’M COLORED……..
NICE …………..THANKS ALY
= Z A R D O Z =
Heheh…excellent Z
Thank you for that, Zardoz. You inspired me to look up some poetry and I found this gem by 16 year old Amy Maddox.
Empathy
He prayed — it wasn’t my religion.
He ate — it wasn’t what I ate.
He spoke — it wasn’t my language.
He dressed — it wasn’t what I wore.
He took my hand — it wasn’t the color of mine.
But when he laughed — it was how I laughed,
and when he cried — it was how I cried.
then I found two quotes that I thought were wonderful too.
Every child smiles in the same language
Anonymous
and this from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance, we’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we havent learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
AMAZING and heartwarming