So, what’s next for the Big Brainwashing Challenge for Black and Brown Children? You’ve guessed it kids; it’s your favourite hip-hop and R ‘n’ B radio DJ, Tim Westwood, broadcasting LIVE from a British military camp in Afghanistan!
The day after I wrote an article on the BBC’s disgraceful censorship of a Bigz freestyle on Charlie Sloth’s 1Xtra show, in which the words ‘Gaza Strip’ had been edited out, the freestyle was re-uploaded in its full, uncensored form. For a second, I thought the BBC might be wanting to divert attention from their blatant, consistent use of bias throughout their reporting but, alas, I thought wrong. The British Broadcasting Corporation have, once again, proved their value as an instrument of imperialist propaganda.
Since the words ‘Free Palestine’ were censored from a Mic Righteous freestyle, also on 1Xtra radio, the excuses have been repeated over and over again; preserving ‘impartiality’, and the need to present both sides of the story. The Tim Westwood coverage, from Camp Bastion, where British soldiers occupying Afghanistan are stationed, blows each one of these fake explanations out of the water. There is nothing ‘impartial’ about a broadcast from a military base. Where are the voices of the Afghan resistance, who are fighting to get a foreign occupier out of their country? Where is the Afghan ‘side of the story’?
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