Drum Magazine Issue 5 | Page 41

DA505 main 26/7/05 7:03 pm Page 39 Drum: PHOTOGENIC 39 You’re now the new generation of thinkers, liberalised and otherwise, open to multi culturalism and yet many years after MacPherson’s decree the institutions are still maintaining the same old rubbish. All that’s happened is that the goal posts have shifted, and underneath the surface nothing authentic gets funded. Black Britain is still not funded like other groups and communities. And the fact is that Britain is never gonna take you seriously until you take yourself seriously. Britain is not gonna give you nothing because you think you deserve it. Britain is waiting for something to burst. Britain is very caught up in her own denial. What remains for us to do is to show each other that we can be part of the beautiful. Like you and your DRUM magazine, that’s all I’m here to do. The Phypher Zone for Lokation