Having been away for a little while in August this year I have had chance to do some reading (this doesn’t happen often). After watching Stormzy’s Glastonbury set I decided to see if there was a book about him and bought myself a copy of Rise Up: The Merky Story So Far which was co-authored by Jude Yawson and includes interviews from Stormzy and a number of the people involved in his rise to fame.
I read Rise Up in two days, probably a record for me. I loved the book and it started me on a journey of discovery.
I am white, middle class and have grown up mainly in the north of England (Nottingham is the furthest south I have lived). I went to school with mainly white middle class children and so I know nothing of other British cultures even if I have pretended otherwise.
Rise Up opened my eyes to a world I have no experience of and have been totally ignorant of for most of my life. It led me to look for some other books to read that might begin to educate me and teach me something no one else ever has. A quick search on google led me to two more books. One I have nearly read, Akala’s Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – The Sunday Times Bestseller and my next project is Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga.
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My plan is to write in future blogs about some of the things I have discovered. Why? because I want to discover more of the untold history of the country I call home, because I want to be honest about the atrocities it has been involved in and continues to be involved in. I also want to be able to teach my children differently, opening their eyes to the reality of the world so they can stand with others to make it better. It isn’t going to be perfect, I won’t always get it right but I hope it might make a little difference.
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