Just as we are told that some black men are errant fathers
because ‘of the slave trade’, did the ‘Partitions’ result in a
Varsovian's lack of civil pride? It may seem a daft question
(and when has the beatroot ever asked one of those?) but the
recent commemorations of the 200 years since the abolition of
the international slave trade has raised the issue of how - or
if - we are affected today by events that happened many
centuries ago. This is black British hip-hop singer Ms Dynamite
– whose father left her when she was 11 years old - on the
legacy of the slave trade on black men today. 'There's stuff in
the family and home which is…a result of slavery. Men were not
allowed to be fathers but were used to breed to create more
slaves. It's something that - not with everyone - is common in
the black community, especially in our generation: the fathers
are not always there. We're not that far away from slavery and
that way of living, where a man is literally just a tool to
reproduce.' Slavery – which the British