Sutent, Cancer & the NHS Debate

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Shine

Scrap metal silver
Remnant of a lost war.
Bitten into shape
And chewed at the edges.
The trophy of our bond-
White-hot metal
Glimmers on the horizon.

By Raymond Enisuoh

The Way

Be like water
Fluid, adaptable
Ready to absorb
And seep through matter
At a moment’s notice.

Study the cat
Alert, tense.
The curvature of the back
Set to recoil
As the spine snaps
Back into shape.

Limber up with exercise
Loose callisthenics.
Stretch, Kata
An upturned palm
Beckons smoothly.

Breathe.
Inhale from the solar plexus.
Life energy, Chi
Fills the lungs.

Explode like a one-inch punch!
Clinical and deadly.
Ruthless as a cobra.

By Raymond Enisuoh.

The Bruce Lee Foundation
See:http://www.bruceleefoundation.com/index900.html

Everything You Wanted To Know About UK Gangs..

But were afraid to ask!

Operation Trident: Stop The Guns
See:http://www.stoptheguns.org/

Turf Wars
See:http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Uu892UaNpw8J:www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jun/04/highereducation.news+guns+and+gangs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk
Guns & Gangs
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Delroy Brown
See:http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/64/64216_the_city_where_gangs_never_sleep.html

Mark Lambie, North Star
See:http://gangsinlondon.piczo.com/haringey(tottenhamarea)?cr=2&linkvar=000044

'Gunchester'
See:http://www.techno.de/mixmag/98.02/Gangchester/Gangchester.4.html

400 Watts

Time tough
Electric beat pulsating
Into the night.
Thick aromas in the air-
Marijuana blended into a criss perfume.
A woman’s menstrual cycle
Draws to an end:
Lion of Judah emblazoned
On her back.
Her mane twists into a frenzied cycle.
Dread in the corner
Grimace on his brow.
Cold metal under his shirt.
Rewind selector!
A minor scuffle becomes a coke war.
The dub-plate jumps
Ravers run
Madness prevails.
A body on the dance floor
Drips red
Under the full moon.

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/3805_drums-reggae.htm
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Doreen

How many years
Does it take to find justice and closure?
Solace and peace.
A mother’s pain outlasts all others
Her love eternal
Her tears all cried out.
Measured sound bites of grief
Spark a nationwide debate
That encompasses all of us.
A black boy with a raised fist
In the background.
His tormentors still running scared.
But the clock keeps ticking
And we all want answers.
No halo or vengeance
Just a reply to our prayers
To grant us smooth passage
As we move forward-
Black and white hands entwined
Into uncertain times.

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.stephenlawrence.org.uk/

Eve

Peel the skin
Taste the fruit
Each segment
Resplendent in its taste
Each pip a seed of new life.
Our birthright
All the herbs of the land
Trees and plants-
Except one.
Eve tricked by a serpent
Now a cherubim
Guards the gates.

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.avogel.ca/avogelinstitute/en/index.php

Fury

Dead fish on the horizon
Ducks caked in a black swamp
Birds drowning in quicksand.
Mother nature’s anger-
Shields forces unbeknownst to man.
From the east we spot
A despot’s bloody hands
Raised in glory.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Salafists: What Does It All Mean?

Salafists: who are they?
Religious grouping harping back to the forbearers (ie. Salaf)-venerated companions of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Founder: Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab-an 18th century revivalist who thought that Muslims had drifted away from the true Islam as practised during the golden age of the prophet. Rejects intercessory prayer of saints and worshipful commemorations of the dead.

Aim: A worldwide Salafist movement spreading spontaneously across Africa, Arabia and Asia. Largely nationalist in purpose.
Where you’ll Find Them: Khartoum (safe haven), Brixton, worldwide.

Dos: refuse to trim beard. Ban holidays. ‘Kill, rape, plunder’ those who reject injunctions.

Don’ts: recognise any reforms or Islamic traditions after time of prophet.

Notorious members: Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden –thought to have become Salafist as a young Arab.
Ayman al Zawahiri – followed Salafist preaching’s of Ibn Tamiyyah-13th century reformer who tried to impose literal interpretation of the holy Quran.

Muslim Council Of Great Britain
See:http://www.mcb.org.uk/

Coma

‘One thing I am trying to teach kids that nobody ever taught me is that nobody is flawless. If somebody says to me that I have bags under my eyes, that I look tired, well, honey, I am tired.’-T Boz (national Spokesperson for Sickle Cell Disease Association Of America.)

Act 1
Crisis talks with my doctor
3 o clock in the morning and
I can’t feel my legs.
O putrid blood
O putrid blood
I feel like I want to die!
A blessing or a curse?
A blessing or a curse?
I rail at God to no avail.

Act 2
Rushed to hospital
My circulation flagging
And a pain akin to hell torments me
-Even my dreams.
These visits becoming more frequent, more regular.
A catastrophe creeping up
As I tread on egg-shells
Wondering how long I have left.
First the light, then the darkness
First the light, then the darkness.
Its always that way.
I drift into a deep, long sleep.

Act 3
I’m free to leave the hospital.
Normal again, with daggers in my veins.
I collect all my get-well cards and fruit
Left for me on the bedside table.
My neighbour has leukaemia-the other one not so lucky.
The big C.
Me? I’m back on my feet again.
Till’ the next time.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Malorie Blackman
See:http://www.myspace.com/malorieblackman

T Boz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTkmSJ9Mdw

Anita Marie Colbert: Being A Highly Sensitive Black Woman: What Does It All Mean?

See: http://www.storyhouse.org/anitac.html

See:http://www.expressionsofsoul.com/story-Anita-Presumption%20of%20Entitlement.htm

Children’s Jehovah Witnesses Alphabet

A is for Awake (religious journal of Jehovah Witnesses)
B is for Babylon
C is for Christ (Jesus, ‘Lamb of God’)
D is for Daniel (Biblical prophet)
E is for Eternal Life
F is for Famine (food shortages, disease, sign of last days)
G is for Gabriel (angel who spoke to Mary)
H is for Heaven
I is for Isaiah (prophet, saw coming of Jesus)
J is for Jehovah (God)
K is for Kingdom
L is for Lord (saviour, anointed one)
M is for Mentor (role model who inspires you to search for God)
N is for New Testament
O is for Old Testament
P is for parents (show respect, appreciation)
Q is for Quintessence (5th substance composing heavily bodies entirely)
R is for Righteous (those who will possess the earth)
S is for Scriptures (Holy books, literature)
T is for blood transfusions (frowned upon By Jehovah Witnesses)
U is for Urim (biblical object, light perfection, casting of lots)
V is for Versions (countless translations of Holy Bible i.e. King James)
W is for Watchtower (tract published by Jehovah Witneses)
X is for X (roman symbol for numeral 10)
Y is for Yahweh (tetragrammaton, Gods name)
Z is for Zealot (religious extremist)

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.watchtower.org/

The NHS Debate: NHS Set For Large Budget Surplus, £1.75 billion

The NHS Debate..See: http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx

For more info on the NHS See Dr Ratcliffe Chorlton Health Centre, 1 Nicolas Rd, M21 1NJ; 0161-861-8888, fax 0161-881-2237. Appointments and General Inquiries can be made at the following times by ...Sutent

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Mermaid

Was that you in the river?
Was that you that I saw?
A mirage to a thirsty tongue-
Adorned with beauty
And crowned with a crescendo of waves.
Your message simple:
We the sea have many creatures
Many fossils and mysteries
Invisible to the naked eye.
Dig and you will find
Remnants of our history,
Lost worlds.
I name you our protector.
So stay strong in times of adversity.
Our wish is a kiss.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Mosiah

A coat of arms
Pinned upon your lapel
And the spirits
Sing your name.

By Raymond Enisuoh


Marcus Garvey
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The Breaks

What makes us think
That we have the security of time
A blanket of success to lean on
In our darkest hours
When all go astray
Except those rare few
We remember for life-
Fellow travellers
In this thing we call existence.
As the world turns
We learn to roll with the punches
But some of us
Grow exhausted of the fight
Weary of jabbing
Into open spaces.
So farewell my brothers.
I’ve a gut feeling I’ll be here for a long while
Watching your back
To the accompaniment
Of old funk beak beats
Just like when we were kids.
We’ll meet again one day
When the stars and moon
Learn to speak a new language
And the sun illuminates my path.

For Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes

By Raymond Enisuoh


Issac Hayes
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Bernie Mac
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Sutent, Cancer & the NHS Debate

The NHS Debate..

See: http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx For more info on the NHS See Dr Ratcliffe Chorlton Health Centre, 1 Nicolas Rd, M21 1NJ; 0161-861-8888, fax 0161-881-2237. Appointments and General Inquiries can be made at the following times by ...

Sutent
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Apocalypse

A fireball
Breathed by a mighty dragon
Envelopes all in its path.
The sky turns crimson
And we remember Zion.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Africa

My love never faltered
O obeah child!
Possessor of the mysteries
That had the ‘gods’ beguiled.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Haram

I eat my dinner with my hands
A monster I am.
Short, brown, defiant
Pugnacious.
My headscarf hides a million tiny bruises.
My dialect reaches from India to Egypt,
Pakistan.
Educated in Koran
I carry no grenades
No suicidal ambitions.
All my children are gone.
I just want to be your sister.
To make love in the dark.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Imtiaz Dharker
See:http://www.imtiazdharker.com/


Moniza Alvi
See:http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03d29k202912635670

Humus

Walk the walk
Talk the talk
Live the life
Feel the force
Observe
Love
Hear.
We are in the branches of the trees
In the rays of the sun
Earth spirits seeking connection.
Turn the page
See the rage
Witness the waste
Don’t turn away
We know your story
Know ours too
Find us in the grass
in a droplet of dew.
Walk the walk
Talk the talk
Live the life
Feel the force..

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.greenmaven.com/

The NHS Debate..NHS Set For Large Surplus, £1.75 Billion

See: http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx

For more info on the NHS
See
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Ugly

I am the Blackman you fear.
The rapist you see on your television screen
In the newspaper headlines.
The drug dealer in your jails.
Bleary eyed
High on crack
I am the one
That never says no.
That goes too far.
Fatherless and ignorant
The ghetto bastard that never stood a chance.
I’m the one that makes your blood boil
The mugger who targets old ladies.
The lazy one in the back of the class
That never tries.
The aspiring basketballer
The baby father with Aids.
The Yardie from Nigeria
Or Moslem from Senegal
The illegal immigrant.
Don’t stand too close
I’m schizophrenic
And can snap at any time.
The community-care reject
That knows your whereabouts.
I’m the murderer
The thief
The robber
The beef
The killer of police.
I am the Blackman you fear.

by Raymond Enisuoh

David Cameron
See:http://www.myspace.com/david_cameron

Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan
See:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53433188

Companion To Contemporary Black Culture: Routledge

Edited by Alison Donnell

Including work by Andrea and Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fDxmvNlvQoAC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=raymond+enisuoh&source=web&ots=3iICTsCNC1&sig=6dCbnCsW5_WcmrBy9nogs_d9Zqw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result

UK-Black disabled people losing out on jobs, says new report (Archive)

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UK-Black disabled people losing out on jobs, says new report

Title of Article: Black disabled people losing out on jobs, says new report
Article:A new study on disabled black people and employment has found that they areworse off than other people with disabilities and that disability organisationsare failing to acknowledge the racial disadvantage they suffer.

Raymond EnisuohBlack disabled people need better representationFor disabled people, carers and those with long term impairments from ourcommunities to have a real say in the decision making process in the UK, we haveto be there too.

National Council of Disabled People, Carers..from Black CommunutyA new study on disabled black people and employment has found that they areworse off than other people with disabilities and that disability organisationsare failing to acknowledge the racial disadvantage they suffer.The report: Ethnicity, Disability and Work, commissioned by the Royal NationalInstitute for the Blind (RNIB) which included interviews with 28 people ofAfrican origin and 20 people of African Caribbean origin, shows that some blackpeople feel that the political agenda of disabled organisations tend to givetheir concerns a very low priority and consequently voluntary and communityorganisations are not seen as being particularly helpful in securing employmentfor disabled blacks.Specifically, the report claims that “there is a tension” between theperceptions of disadvantages that arise from “disabilism” [discriminatory,oppressive or abusive behaviour arising from the belief that disabled people areinferior to others] and those resulting from racism.The report recommends that both statutory and voluntary disability organisationsshould focus on placing race higher up the agenda and should reconsider theirown attitudes and practices to ensure that they meet the requirements of racerelations legislation, as well as their obligations under disabilitylegislation.The report calls on the government to establish a quota system for employingblacks with sensory disability and suggests job applications should not includea declaration of disability until after the short-listing stage. Only 15 percent of black adults [and those termed “ethnic minorities”] with sensoryimpairments in the UK are in employment according to this study.The three-year project is the first major study on this issue which gives avoice to some of the concerns of black disabled people whose views are oftenignored or neglected by the mainstream. Black Britain tried to contact JulieCharles, the founder and chair of Equalities National Council [an independententerprise run by its service users] for this story but she was unavailable.But a release by the emerging National Council of Disabled People, Carers andthose with long term impairments from the black community affirmed their beliefthat the needs of black disabled people were not adequately catered for.The release said: “For disabled people, carers and those with long termimpairments from our communities to have a real say in the decision makingprocess in the UK, we have to be there too. Not as a tokenistic lonely minorityfigure but collectively and as a decisive voice on policy. If we are notrepresented nationally then our needs will not get the recognition they rightlydeserve.”David Sessay, 60, is originally from Sierra Leone, has lived in Leeds for manyyears and is registered blind due to chronic glaucoma. Sessay was forced to giveup his job and business due to his sight loss and has experienced the lack ofjob opportunities available for disabled Africans and African Caribbeans in thiscountry first hand.Disabled issues are geared to the mainstream viewBlack disabled people can become socially excluded when their needs are notcatered for.Employment issues are rough, extremely rough. I could go on and on. Basicallyit is very discriminatory and everything is geared to the mainstream view ofthings and not ours. They don’t understand our issues.Gary Powell, Chair of the Black Disabled People’s AssociationSessay told Black Britain: “If it wasn’t for the generosity of my kids I wouldhave been a vagrant going out and begging for my daily meal even though I’dpreviously worked all my life. RNIB is one of those organisations that are toofragmented; they should play a more important role. I told the RNIB that I wouldhelp them just to make African Caribbean people more aware.”Gary Powell, Chair of the Black Disabled People Association agrees with thestudies findings that “disablism - like racism - can be institutionalised” andclaims that employment issues are near the top of this list.Powell told Black Britain: “Employment issues are rough, extremely rough. Icould go on and on. Basically it is very discriminatory and everything is gearedto the mainstream view of things and not ours. They don’t understand ourissues.”Powell, however, argues that for black disabled people there really is nofunctional difference between disabilism and racism.Powell told Black Britain: “Disabilism and racism-you can’t separate the two.They are inseparable. It’s all very well focusing on race but if you aredisabled as well it makes it even worse, so I wouldn’t even attempt to say thatone has more priority than the other.”The Chair has mixed feelings on the studies suggestion that “disabilityorganisations, both statutory and voluntary, must focus on raising ‘race’ higherup the agenda.” claiming that in practice this is not as straightforward as itseems.Powell told Black Britain: “That depends on what context that you use race in.What I’ve found is that it’s more people from disadvantaged communities. Race isfeatured but that tends to be very broad, certain races or groups sufferdifferently from us because of different cultural or economic problems.”Powell concluded by stating his own recommendations when dealing with disabledpeople from the black community. He claims that until black people start to dothings for themselves and feed into the mainstream then the mainstream will keepassuming exactly what it is that black people really need.Powell told Black Britain: “Black disabled people need to be consulted more.It’s a two way thing but I think that what needs to be done is betterconsultation so that that they can get a better understanding and really justnarrow the culture down.”Last year Disability Rights commission chairman Bert Massie sparked hugecontroversy when he appeared to claim that disabled people experience moreprofound exclusion that black people.Massie told a press briefing at the launch of the national debate on disability:“Neglect and institutionalised exclusion is even more profound for disabledpeople than those barriers correctly highlighted in Lord McPherson’s report onthe murder of Stephen Lawrence.”DGV Source: http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details.aspx?i=2235&c=UK&h=Black+disabled+people+losing+out+on+jobs%2C+says+new+report****************************************************The Author's views reflect only their opinion and do not necessarily reflectthat of The Disability Grapevine

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Anchor

A smile upended
Tears of solitude
Raining down my cheeks.
The loss of love
More scary than
Madness or death.
A woman’s pain
Hollow and dark-
Foreboding like childbirth.
The umbilical cord is buried far away.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Jackie Kay
See:http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth54

Naan

Trapped in a shopping queue
Only bread barms
And granulated sugar for company.
Did I turn that light off?
And set the VCR this morning?
The bar code won’t scan
And that Asian woman
Behind the counter
Keeps staring at the Mediterranean section.
The marketing director
Is off her trolley.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Poems In The Waiting Room
See:http://www.pitwr.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Literature & Politics With Andrea Enisuoh

See: http://aenisuoh.blogspot.com/

Raymond Enisuoh Interviews Michael Watson

See: http://issuu.com/boogieboa/docs/drum05/66

Raymond Enisuoh Meets Shaka Hislop

See: http://issuu.com/boogieboa/docs/drum04/46

A Handshake And A Smile: Raymond Enisuoh Catches Up With Paul Boateng

See: http://issuu.com/boogieboa/docs/drum04/23

Bush Fan Raymond Enisuoh Catches Up With Paris

See: http://issuu.com/boogieboa/docs/drum03/30

Trouble Man: Raymond Enisuoh Meets Keith Murray

See:http://issuu.com/boogieboa/docs/drum02/10

Tattoo

Arabic script
Emblazoned on your heart
A mantra
That spells us.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Scientology Alphabet

A is for Auditors Day (second Sunday in September, for person qualified in Dianetics)
B is for Bouncer (an engramic command (e.g. Get Out!)
C is for Cult (system of religious worship, fad, a craze)
D is for Dianetics (best-selling self help book by L. Ron Hubbard)
E is for Eighth Dynamic (Infinity, God)
F is for File Clerk (slang for mind mechanism that acts as information monitor)
G is for Grouper (nastiest of all commands)
H is for Hypnoanalysis (use of hypnosis, hypnotic drugs in psychoanalytic techniques)
I is for Individual (the spirit)
J is for Judicary Dianetics (field of law within society, societies)
K is for Kinaesthesia (motion of weight and muscles)
L is for L. Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology in 1954)
M is for March 13th (Hubbard’s celebrated birthday)
N is for Neurotic (nervous disorder, person disturbed on some subject)
O is for Outer Space (physical body, created for existence beyond)
P is for Secular Philosophy (teachings, rituals, beliefs)
Q is for q (symbol to represent undefined force)
R is for Reactive Mind (part of mind which works on stimulus response basis)
S is for Scientology (‘the study of truth’)
T is for Thetans (exiled race, humans descendants of)
U is for Utopian (state or place of perfection, idealisation)
V is for Vessels (human body just receptacle for immortal soul)
W is for Will Smith (actor, husband of to Jada Pinkett, friend of scientology veteran Tom Cruise) X is for Experiences (principle: don’t create experiences that others can’t understand)
Y is for You (principle:that what is true, is what you have seen)
Z is for Zygote (first cell of a new person)

By Raymond Enisuoh

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Middle East Peace In This Era

US President George W. Bush
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Sphinx

No fears of the genie
That delight in mischief and games.
I have seraphim on my shoulder
Cherubs in the midst.
A veteran of sleepless nights –
What can dreams show
That the wind knows not?

By Raymond Enisuoh

Card Sharp

The wheel of life
Rolling spinning
Dub beat thumping
‘Wha appen, man
Yuh winning?’
Bad man nuh
Laugh
Bad man nuh card sharp.
From the cradle to the grave
Unu must learn fi behave
Tek a gamble and lose
Tek a gamble and lose
Use yuh head man
Is the path that you choose
Is the path that you choose.
More to life than narcotics and blues.
Trilby and whine
Hustling nickel and dime
Just running outta time
Just running outta time.
Crack Mac 10 yardie crime
Then say Selassie I divine.
Is the blind leading the blind
Say the blind leading the blind.
Nothing but time.

By Raymond Enisuoh


Linton Kwesi Johnson, Penguin Classics
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Conspiracy Theory: US Black Spirtual Leaders

Rev Dr. Malachi Z. York
See:http://www.hesinnocent.com/

Louis Farrakhan Myspace:
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FBI: 'Prevention Of Black Messiah?'
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Boris Johnson: 'Pickaninies' & London: Intelligent Debate

Boris Johnson, London Mayor
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