Rapper Akala- white middle class, London Gentrification, Rich People & Immigration control
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- Akala talking on several topics including poverty, creativity, London gentrification (racial dislocation), rich people, immigration control, white middle-classes, Notting Hill Carnival, non-white british, glastonbury drugs, IMF, free market economy and income tax. www.akalamusic.com Visit producejustice.com/?affiliate=9
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This is taken from a discussion where Akala is speaking with 4 middle class journalists. He totally removes their heads from their bodies with the strength of his arguments, exposing their total lack of understanding of London, its history, and how it currently works. It was painful to watch at times
Akala is a master of communicating and the articulating complex issues that would be merely impossible to digest without his type of input. Thank you Sir for such an honest and intelectual insight.
Wooooooooooow when he spoke about the police numbers of noting hill carnival and glastonbury, I was like, woooooooow, that's true, man!.
Glover dragon i was like wow more violent crime at notting hill and its on public streets so yes it makes sense there are more police at notting hill
Sintija Lusa It's not about where it is located because a crime is a crime no matter where it is happening, be it on the street or in a field. If the police have intelligence and know of hot-spots where crime is happening then they have a duty to go there in the numbers according to the size(glasto attracts a VAST number of people and the police numbers do not reflect that). Akala is correct, glasto doesn't get the numbers of police attendance nor does it get the same police attitude pressure that nottinghill receives. It's wrong. In the black community weed is the only socially acceptable drug, in the community that attends glasto they partake in taking harder forms of drugs, and encourage, hell glasto is known for its drug taking. When I go to a Grime rave you would be shocked to see the numbers of police that come by.
Especially when you think about the vast amount of hard drugs in Glastonbury compared to carnival.
Yet carnival gets drug task forces and Glastonbury gets free reign to sell and use as much as they like.
It's true but it makes perfect sense, people rarely get stabbed at glastonbury and its basically in a field. Whilst Notting Hill is in the middle of london and there are regular stabbings, shooting and property damage etc.
@sintijalusa4610 Oh yeah good one, i was like wow sarcasm is such a low form of communication
He talks and I listen. Why is he not on the TV every night...
Think I've answer my own question really...
+Art Hunter He is a Marxist ......
+finalfrontier001 Does that matter if he's talking about the things that need to be talked about...
Niamh Malone So he's a marxist and a black supremacist.lol. You do understand that wanting racial equality doesn't make you a black supremacist right...
+Art Hunter exactly. all we've ever wanted smh
@@finalfrontier001 you probably don’t even know the meaning of the word Marxist
Speaking as a white working class bloke from south london i have to say every thing this lad says is on the money, so to speak. Sure, me and all my white mates were picked on by the filth as we learned the art of ducking and diving. But it was the black lads who were really getting it, from all directions.
Still, plenty of white faces in all the riots, then and now.
What do i notice as an old man ? Wealth fucks you up. A white middle class lad is what he is. As capable of being actually cool as... er..... mumford and fucking son?
Old history, absolutely nothing like the police today. If you were 'ducking and diving' I assume you realised you'd have the authorities on your ass?? I grew up in the same area and blacks weren't 'getting it' from anyone.
@VooDooMaGicMan81 he didnt even mention an area, biased much?
wow!!! how am I just stumbling on this person? he is effing smart!
Akala is so articulate and intelligent - cuts straight through the bull-shite. He is proper right right about the Notting Hill Carnival. I lived off Ladbrooke Grove, Cambridge Gardens,for years when it was a proper Carnival. Everyone were made proper welcome by the Afro-Caribbean community. Wonderful times. However, it has now, sadly, been hi-jacked by corporates. Incidentally,I'm white Irish - I make the point that I'm white, because not all Irish people are white: for example, one of the greatest Irish football players was of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Paul McGrath.
d willey being Irish myself thank you for that generalised sweeping racist statement
d willey Well done for fuelling them to be so. Why speak their language, then? Go learn Swahili, and be proud of refusing to play the racist whites' game, or shut up, you convenience-obsessed (like most people) joker.
montpelier42d That makes him Afro-Caribbean moved to Ireland, really, not deeply-integrated with the long Irish cultural traditions (unless that's how he was raised, which is allowed, of course!) I don't like the lying about what these cultural traditions mean to a nation's social integrity, is all. Political Correctness has overrun into making people think their own culture is uncool or even 'wrong' just because it came mainly from a single racial group, or long-established mix of them (British Isles white population is all one big mix with some geographical trends and isolated groups). To quote Akala: "Now that's bullshit." Who pushed American selfish, self-centred, car-orientated, family-ignorant, somewhat anti-social culture onto the British youth? Someone did... Why did - and do - British people become so Yank-centric? British rappers doing their own thing is cool, in that context. But anyone who lies to further the aims of themselves or their people - is committing a similar mistake to that which was perpetrated against them that they likely they use to justify their own moral ignorance. The fact that one happened after the other in linear time, gives LESS of an excuse to the second group (who has the benefit of hindsight, unlike the first group). The thing about being the bigger man (or woman), is that even if you're ignored by some - at least it puts +1 good person into the world, instead of taking one away...
To be fair his point about the excessive policing at Carnival in comparison to Glastonbury is a stupid comment when violence at Carnival is much more likely
Love Akala... He's our British Umar Johnson.
Yessss you put it into words thank you!!!
Hotep to both of you in this thread. Are you guys familiar with the House of Konsciousness?
+black god I'm not familiar with house of consciousness but I will check them out.
No he's not Like him at all
show some respect. umar johnson although articulate is pimping the black people in america. akala is as sincere as they get. go ask umar johnson where's that school
Can anyone provide a transcription for this? Is it possible to download it from the video?
I wish more Black British men were as 'woke' as this Mixed Race man.
thehoneyeffect I know right :( I think they're slowlyyy gradually waking up though, hopefully anyway
really? you think so?
they're dating habits don't reflect that it it is getting better anytime soon.... they are sleeping. i do hope it changes though, i hope you're right.
thehoneyeffect I just think that because of everything that's happening with the senseless killing in the US etc they will be forced to wake up.
LOL girll don't get me started on dating habits,hopefully with wokeness that changes too.
thehoneyeffect Its not a black british men thing is a people thing. If all people were switched on like this race would never be an issue.
I'm a realist, i don't expect the system of white supremacy to change because the only thing that is in it for whites if they lost it is the reality that they are not superior (in fact they are genetically recessive and only make up 10% of the world) and less cash, i don't think many white people are about that non-matrix life....like really really.
Id like for Black men not to hate their own blackness, because they take it out on BW, misogynoir is so potent in this era.
My man goes in hard
clinttidan i hope he wears protection :)
David Rocastle lol
Real talk akala 🙌🏾 💯
This guy would be good on question time.
KNOWLEDGE!!!!!! that was beautiful
Yes, where is this taken from?
Oxford university debates
Refreshing, common sense from a real dude.
+Dark Star Transmissions What was common sense??
finalfrontier001 What wasnt ? Go play with another faceless white youtuber and leave HUMANs alone!
+Dark Star Transmissions seems like you don't have anything to base your opinions on. He asked a simple question and you didn't even answer
Dark Star Transmissions
"fuck you white boy!"
You assuming the person is white just because they disagreed with you. Says a lot about you than him.
im looking at his icon fairy!finalfrontier001
The soccor video game footage was a dead give away. i hate all non blacks equally!
a very smart man. we must spread truths like this...he's not a corrupted psycho like the ones that run the show!!
If you thumb down this video your part of the program with London
i want to hear the questions :/
What talk is this originally from? I would like to hear the whole talk rather than just akala's speaking.
+Alex Cullinane-Carrasco iq squared's "Is London too rich to be interesting?"
Oxford university I'm sure.
Search is London too rich to be interesting
Don 👑
this guy is incredible. he should write a book. any albums of his people can recommend? he and miss dynamite his sister should do an album together
Yuri muckraker "Thieves Banquet" is one of the best albums I've ever heard.. You should start there !!
Lynxchillin08 well do! thank you for the response! :D :)
Yuri muckraker No problem.. Each track was performed using a live band so that alone makes it sound brilliant. Enjoy !!
Lynxchillin08 what his sister ms.dynamite up to? she was quite a breath of fresh air in rap when she came out with her song "it takes more" and like so many rappers and rnb singers she's disappeared.
Yuri muckraker I quite honestly know nothing about her, obviously I've heard a few of her tracks from back in the day but her music isn't quite to my fancy.. Sorry :S
you cannot compare policing policy at glastonbury to the carnival - they are different in so many ways.
you’re d best spidah in d corner of my room ;)
The festival's that Akale speaks of have become multicultural...
...just like him.
It's all well and good inferring some sort of racial/class inequality with regards to police numbers at Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury, but our friend Akala is omitting the fact that there is a shocking level of violence at NHC and people are regularly being stabbed there. How often are people being stabbed at Glastonbury?
probably loads it just aint reported by media
Joanne Lee yah probly loike they are just in a plot to make black peoples look angry racist whiners and victims wow they suceeding too
joanna I'd bet my life more people are stabbed over a NH weekend than in the whole of glastonburys history
@Laura Nwogu yea alright lol , and if a white guy dry humped a female police officer he would be locked up, look what that rasta lad done against the female bizzy, had her up against the railings dry doggystyle and you know what?....she was laughing! and scared cos she knew the protected class who had her arse pressed up ,with his hard on against her, wasn't gonna get ragged cos he was a black fella, IT GOT LAUGHED OFF AS A JOKE! if that was a white man he would be in jail for a long time so fuck off you little privileged ferret, we can see it
Well if you compare the crowds, glastonbury will set someone back hundreds of pounds, and supplies. Carnival is relatively open. In any event where you are letting in just anybody, people show up who cause trouble, its no stretch of the imagination. If glastonbury was a "show up and just party" sort of deal, of course the level of policing would increase dramatically as would the level of violence. it is simple really, someone wont pay hundreds to go to a festival to just cause trouble. Im not saying there should be a large entry fee for carnival, i am saying that maybe its not as simple as suggested, and that there is far more to "that crowd or area being more violent by default"
This guy should be long gone. Deport deport deport.
What exactly is Akala's point?
Watch "Q&A Akala", this video is out of context, very much so.
Akaka, the .001%er.
He's not stupid is he. Very bright young man.
3:20
Who is 'they'? I recognise that open immigration would benefit this country enormously, provided that there are almost no public services that are paid for by taxing the people that already live here.
It's not only immigration control that prevents Swedish bus drivers from having to compete with drivers from India, it's also the government's enforcing a minimum wage, and the transport unions enforcing an above-market wage level.
It's not Norway's high tax on corporations that gives their citizens a good standard of living. It's the fact that they were a predominantly free-market, capitalist economy in the early 20th century, then they discovered that they had 2,000 barrels of oil for every Norwegian sitting underneath them. That's the source of their great welfare state; Oil, not high taxes.
Akala's right about the bailouts though. One of the greatest daylight robberies in the history of the UK, and so many people are perfectly happy about it. I can understand why people might want to use the government to bail out needy individuals (although I think it's often done mistakenly), but the government should never ever bail out private businesses. That's insanity.
If you passed a law in Bangladesh today that made child labour illegal, you would not necessarily be benefitting those children it affected. Do you think they would suddenly be free to attend an excellent school with free nutritious lunches? No. Instead of having a crappy job they would now be destitute, and might have to resort to starvation, street-begging or sex-trafficking to scrape out an existence. The question of morality is not as simple as Akala makes it out to be. Child labour does not exist in other countries, and did not exist down through history, because people are/were not as enlightened as we are here and now, it existed because the alternative was starving, and being in even deeper poverty. The reason we have no child labour today is because our industrial-capitalist system can generate so much wealth that child labour is no longer necessary to meet basic living standards.
12:33
I think the IMF has probably done more harm than good, through its entire history. However, it is the governments who accepted those loans that are responsible for what they then did. The IMF cannot force any government to do anything, what they can do is offer them loans under specific conditions, or simply refuse to bail them out when their hair-brained economic policies fail.
The New Deal did not give people 'a leg up'. It actually extended the Great Depression by several years.
multigrooves If the loan conditions are evil, they why accept the loan in the first place?
Anyway, what makes you so sure that a government monopoly would be any better at providing water and allocating natural resources than a multi-national corporation?
+Festus Williams read confessions of an economic hit man!!!
@@festuswilliams654 countries like the US/UK/France liked supporting whichever strongman is on their side (including in a Cold War sense) and that often meant turning a blind eye to atrocities/theft
Valorized and ostrosized
Love akala....but can't help feeling he eouldnt be easy to live with.
Me
Akala you want a cup of tea....
Akala.....why do you think I would want to drink tea..dont you know the imperialist background of that production.....
1. So, most, most, ultimately, the problem to in society is: capitalism - it's the thing that holds all the problems about society up that needs to be addressed.
2. And his other point is: let's be honest about british history before you discuss issues regarding other races & cultures.
That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion or criticise them; you just need to ensure you understand - why - britain is like that, because when you understand that, the cause of your criticism for other cultures can be understood & thus a truer way of solving it can be realised (i.e. capitalism is the real problem that needs solving).
thou shalt not clog toilets I don't think socialism would be the answer too...
You agree that capitalism is the root of many problems though? - so my analysis isn't "way off" here? (I'm not giving any alternative or whatever, I'm just saying it's the root of many problems "that needs to be addressed").
His other point was being honest about british history, he obviously seems to think "we"/society at large don't know about it enough.
I don't think I'm "way off" here either... From my own experience, inner city state school, I knew hardly anything about empire, and speaking to my mates, same. But that's just my experience. And akala seems to agree (i mean he keeps bringing it up...).
I googled about empire in schools to see if it wasn't just me, my mates & akala's experiences, and I found that Gove has been talking about no empire in schools, paxman, the telegraph, bbc news, ofsted, independent, new statesman, daily mail, there's not insignificant, invalid sources (there's both right wing & left wing, and Gove was the education secretary...). I think it's changing slightly in school. I know edexcel recent new syllabus 2014 A level does it - it even uses it as a selling point even to choose this syallabus.
So I don't think I'm "way off" overall in my 2 points.
As for other cultures getting a pass from criticism... it depends who you talk to & where you get your information from. If you get it from a right wing newspaper, then other cultures don't get a pass. Left wing, sure.
My personal opinion is: "That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion or criticise them; you just need to ensure you understand - why - britain is like that [curricula], because when you understand that, the cause of your criticism for other cultures can be understood & thus a truer way of solving it can be realised (i.e. capitalism is the real problem that needs solving)". I think akala is saying that too.
thou shalt not clog toilets The ultimate goal is harmonious, respectful, communal cohesion right? - not taking the piss, or fighting against each other - just harmonious respectful communal cohesion.
[Cultural cohesion]
1. Knowing, liking, respecting customs of the land while keeping some of your own personal identity (if you wish) & enriching the land with it (if you wish). And of course not living off benefits (this applies to all people though, not just immigrants).
-> You need to address british identity to make people feel a part of the country, in america they have a written-constitution; some want that here & think it helps with british identity (some ukip, some labour, some tory). I know the tories are starting teaching of 'british values' in schools. Another thing to address cultural cohesion is to be honest about why britain looks the way it does so that young people feel more comfortable in their identity (you don't have to teach imperialism to be negative: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9085936/Jeremy-Paxman-Our-empire-was-an-amazing-thing.html), and want to be part of it & contribute to it rather than finding out about it in their own time & only seeing the negative things about imperialism that created them & don't want to be part of => to which they retreat into their religious identity (notice how it's the younger crowd that go toward extremism). Teaching imperialism will help the confused young kids not retreat into their religious identity & empower themselves via it - it's hard enough finding your social identity being a white brit. We have a "social justice" identity; young people who retreat into extreme behaviour & having moral highground to empower themselves. Same psychology religious extremism.
[Economic cohesion]
2. You gotta address capitalism - when immigrants are taking your jobs, you start to hate them in particular. But you're hating the wrong people, it is the game of capitalism to have cheaper & slave labour.
Ok without immigrants. Keep capitalism. Then what? You're back to hating the upper classes, that's the "most, most, ultimately, the problem to in society" (my original comment above)... It always has been the problem through countless examples found in the middle ages, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_revolt_in_late-medieval_Europe and it has had its legacy in the right wing left wing politics originating from the french revolution, another revolt from unfairness.
-> To address economic unfairness for communal cohesion. I'm not suggesting socialism is the answer in addressing capitalism. I think: just little things like address tax avoidance, better pay, just giving workers more power, basic traditional ideas from labour. Make those "shit jobs" better with higher pay. Money will remain the motivator to remain living standards & services... This is a start... HOWEVER, what it means for rich corporations that truly, "basically rule the country" (not immigrants), I don't know how they'll take it. The tories & right wing politicians (I think) thinks that automation & technology will be the way forward to address the problem of "shit jobs" without needing to attack their rich social circles. So self checkouts, a robot shoveller of coal, etc. So promotion of more STEM that they tend to do.
''Rich people need poor people to be rich'''....wow...its so obvious but never really gave it much thought.
Because its nonsense.
These class systems that he talks about are very broad generalisations, and really not applicable like he's talking about. Teachers are considered middle class. Can a doctor not be considered working class? Plenty of immigrants own businesses etc, etc. Probably the majority of independent and franchises in London are owned by people who are either from somewhere else, or their parents or grandparents. The fact is, London has to continue to move with the times. And it has to do so, on order to stay competitive in the global market, otherwise everyone is doomed.
The cosy "middle class" he's talking about a very small group. Those that aren't in some way struggling to make ends meet. Some of the bigger council estates are in Kensington also. And the other thing he doesn't really address is the people who worked hard and brought their council houses, who lived and worked there until retirement, often sold their houses or are renting them out. And just because a flat is privately owned, doesn't mean it isn't occupied by working people at the lower level of the income spectrum. He is convoluting gentrification with privatisation. Fact is, London runs a lot more efficiently in 2018, than in 1986. Inequality isn't wrong. There will always be inequalities. The way to make life better for the poor is to increase the wealth and opportunity available to them not make the rich less rich. Poor people today generally have a better standard than 30 years ago.
Good comment i posted the above in another thread.
klanza dumas consulting privatisation with gentrification is common among those that would want to make everyone equal on their bottom level.
I couldn't see your comments anywhere on any other thread.
Margaret Thatcher would have loved you mate
Change isn't always a good thing. Brixton is an example of what's happening in London. And this video shows the sort of people and attitude which is aiding the exclusion of many communities.
th-cam.com/video/9Xwr8DmHgpM/w-d-xo.html
Is it possible to reclaim brixton? London again? Im not sure!
Nobody really talks like that . White people have a right to live in brixton
@@klanzadumas2962 You think they weren't allowed to live in Brixton before? 😂
Gentrification is diversity speak for "my area is turning white again". White countries shouldn't have non white or white other areas. Gentrification helps towards erasing parallel societies. That is better for the country at large, especially for minorities as it breaks up the gangs and decreases the amount of ghettos.
what exactly is a white country?
the historical homes of the white race derr
The Middle Class in London must be abolished soon.
You're joking right.
MrKmas508
Middle class speak an act in a certain way that must be abolished aka cultural middle class and you know it.
This isn't communist rhetoric, this is anarchist rhetoric. Which involves the people within an organisation owning the means of production, and the elimination of all hierarchy, whether that be state hierarchy, or capitalist hierarchy.
I could not disagree more. Poverty is very much a driver of creativity.
sourcescience plus you got the time on your hands to create, and desperation is a great motivator
Veronica V why do you assume that people in poverty have more time on their hands?
because they're not working, but then of course there's the working poor, carers, self employed whose business isn't doing well, yes indeed a wrong assumption of mine, I stand corrected, thanks
Veronica V Ill people whose illness goes in cycles, so they have to make up for lost time during the periods of better-health - the list goes on!
POVERTY KILLS CREATIVITY, GOOD CREATIVITY ANYWAY
I’ve heard him say it before that he went to the Hackney empire 5 times a week like that’s a walk on the wild side 😂😂😂
Ok Keith
Every time I listen to him he starts good, then begins to wrap up a racist rant within it. Be careful of people who come like intelligent, it's within intelligence to be deviant or influential.
He has a lot of built up guilt and identity problems. He’s a good storyteller but no substance to his discussion