BLM Artwork Collage
ELATT
The Learning Community
Be yourself and not being someone else otherwise you will be treated different.
Justice is not true only a few people believe in you.
Grab the chance in life and show them that you are not lie.
Move into the action to make your future full of reactions.
My name is Segs Fayase and I have been teaching ESOL at ELATT for over 10 years. I am also a music artist by the name of Segge Dan where I fuse uplifting Hip Hop, soulful melodies and inspirational lyrics.
I would like to submit a song/ video for the Black Lives Matter themed Student Celebration.
The song is called 'Libation' and features UK soul legend, Omar. It is off my first album 'Black Brittanyaa Windrush Vol 2'.
Libation is the ancient African ritual of pouring out liquid (normally alcoholic spirits) to honour the ancestors. The song lays homage to the hardship of the Windrush Generation who came in the 50's and 60's.
In this global support of Black Lives Matter, this song is a timely reminder to celebrate the lives of Black pioneers from yesteryear.
Segs aka Segge Dan
The Black Lives Matter is an international human right movement against violence and systemic racism toward black people.
The Black Lives Matter is not a term of confrontation or an exclusionary demand. It is a reallyng cry for a shift in statistical numbers that show that people who are back are twice as likely to be killed by a police officer while unarmed, compared to a white individual.
Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t ready to hear it. Protest is, in its own way, storytelling. Black people use their bodies, words, art and sounds to tell the truth about the pain they endure, and to demand Justice we know is possible. It is meant to build a community, and to force a response.
For this reason it is important to be ally to recognise oppression broadly and standing in solidarity with anyone who experiences oppression.
It is absurd that even today exists institutional racism from social and political institutions and that in this society is not yet ready to racial equality!
