A Fabricated Blog Entry About "the Black and White Museum"

The Black and White Museum

In Ferdinand Dennis' ironic novel, we experience a resurrection of the history of the slaves's journey across the Atlantic. The protagonist Papa Legba opens "the Black and White Museum" in London, where you, besides acquiring various cultural artifacts and magical powdermedicin, can relive the journey across the Atlantic in a simulated slaveship. This shows to have an enormous effect on people. Some are shocked, others experience the passage as invigorating and cathartic. The most important part of it, is that many people discover or rediscover their african identity. White brits try the slaveexperience as well and discover the extent of their ancestors's crimes. A new slavefashion arises in the streets and in the night clubs, with ragged clothes and heavy chains and dances where you twist and turn in imagined pain. This way history repeats itself tragicly, comically and as fashion.

DISGRACEFUL FASHION!

ANKLE CHAINS, RAGGED CLOTHES AND SLAVERY GAMES IS WHAT OUR CHILDREN ARE SUBJECTED TO, AND IT MAKES A MOCKERY OF THE PAINFUL HISTORY OF THE SLAVES.THE NEW SO-CALLED "SLAVEFASHION" IS A DISGRACE TO FASHION, TO BLACK CULTURE AND TO BRITAIN!

"-and then you can pretend to be whipping me!" If this is a phrase you have heard recentley, don't fret, it is not some perverted sex game your kids have started playing. Instead it is something far worse; the new trend of the rebellious and disrespectful youth of (un)Great Britain. Thats right, if you want to know what todays most trendy fashion looks like, just open any black history book and look at the slave section. That is what our kids are simulating, and it must stop!First and foremost, it is a total disregard to all the pain and struggels the black slaves have experienced. Haven't they been through enough? Is it nesecarry that we mock and humiliate each other once again? Haven't we learnt from our mistakes? It seems that some people haven't, and it is up to people like you and I to correct this behaviour. Teach your kids about this painful part of history and let them know that making a mockery of it is wrong. You can also go straight to the source, the media. The radio DJ of Maroons FM., Winston Hill, is spouting of advertisment and support to this sick trend, and by calling the number 0171-3455 and asking for Nanna Hansen you can help us with the cancellation of this horrific radio station.

TAKE CONTROL BRITAIN!

By Nathalie Laursen - black history teacher - London