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Sunday 3 April 2011

Rasta Poet Taken Out and Shot by Alternative Vote (AV) "Yes" Posters - Benjamin Zephaniah humiliated by Racist Lib Dems & UK's Electoral Commission Political Campaign

Marcia Kia Simpson-James.


International Rasta Poet taken out & shot from UK's AV "Yes" campaign leaflet because they are ashamed to be associated with a "West-Indian" Jamaican.


Today the public were put on notice, that the International Jamaican British "West-Indian" Rasta Poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, has been the target of racist politicos within the Alternative Vote (AV) "Yes" campaign.

This campaign is run by racist 'bisexual', sex-changer Carlrina Trimmingham, director of campaigns for the Electoral Commission.

He-She is the boy-girlfriend of Britain's Lib Dem secretary of state for Climate Change, the playboy, nuclear-promoting Chris 'Honey-pot' Huhne. 


To jog the readers memory, Chris Huhne is the racist man who left his director general wife, Vicky Pryce, and their 'five picanninies' for six foot tall, sex-change lesbian 'Miss' Trimmingham.

The Black community were shocked to hear that world famous Rasta, Mr-Dr Zenphaniah's image was used  on posters for the "Yes" vote in Brixton, and other parts of London. We have been informed, that the leaflet was specifically used on "certain poor council estates",  with a small Black community presence.


However, after this, the remaining leaflets were taken outside "Yes" campaign offices and ordered burnt by the leaders of the campaign.


The leaflets were burnt after the realisation that activists were refusing to distribute and hand out leaflets with the photo of the many-times honoured rastaman. All the leadership and activists involved were white.


The main complaint appears to be that activists were "afraid" of having a "Black man on the front cover". This led to their refusal to give the pamphlets to members of the public in parts of the country that were considered "too white" to 'stomach it'.

Leaders of the "Yes" AV campaign, were so upset that their campaigners were embarrassed to hand out the leaflet with Zephaniah's image, that they decided, at very short notice, to have the leaflets reprinted, with a replacement image of an old-time white jewish actor.

It was these new leaflets, with the photoshopped image of the white actor slotted in place, that the activist felt 'proud' to distribute to the public. 

When asked why they did not want to hand out the leaflets with the image of Dr Zephaniah, some activist replied that they had 
never seen a Black person before ...he looked horrible, ugly and Black"


Others told our source, that they "felt ashamed" to hand out the  leaflet, "...with a Black man...we don't have any Black people around here and he's known for causing the riots in Brixton and Birmingham...anyway, everybody knows all rastas stink, they smoke weed all day long and they never wash".

Others agreed with the view expressed below:


 "we have a lot of BNP and English Defence League mates, and if they see him on the front of our leaflet, they'll go mad.. you've got to remember that after all this, we have to drink with them in the pub, you don't".

The Sunday Telegraph reported, that the actor used to replace Dr Zephaniah, was ironically, Tony Robinson, a white jew, from the popular comedy "Blackadder".


In all honesty, none of these campaigns come out well. They are all racist-soddened waste of Black time. In this instance, I think the vote should be 'None of the above'.

  In terms of Benjamin Zephaniah's credentials to front a political campaign of any sort in the UK, let us remember, that this man was made sterile, because of his political views. He was one of many Black men, who were kidnapped, disappeared, tortured, beaten with clubs and killed repeatedly in the scrotum by mentally disordered policemen. This all under the anti-Black SUS laws in Britain.


This is a man, who, may not be my own cup of tea, but he did no more than was expected of him as a Black man and poetic political activist, expressing the views of a large part of fair-minded society.


This man was maliciously targeted. And for his pains, he can no longer have children of his own. Indeed, this man, paid the personal ultimate price in the struggle for Black liberation in the UK.


Therefore, I see no reason, why, this vegan, non-smoker, should not be given the privilege of 'fronting' a simple political leaflet. Many a person took up their voting rights on the back of his work and his experiences. 
That is why no one has the right or authority to 'erase' his image from any publication he sees fit to front. He took the blows on the front-line when many others balked with fear. So, we say, let his face be the face on the front of the leaflet. Lets give this man his due respect and show the world that we really know how to honour the honourable.


If any of those activist can say that they 'took the blow' to give the public the chance to vote in this AV referendum - I'll ask them to eat their hat!