WINE, WINE, WINE, IT IS CARNIVAL TIME!!! The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that since 1966 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK, each August over three days (the August bank holiday Monday and the two days beforehand. It has attracted more than one million people in past years, making it the largest street festivals in the world. Hmmmm, I have become tired of the event although there is so much excitement on Bank Holiday Monday. But same old, same old, police officers getting down with the revellers and it seems like the only time in the year that a British policeman smiles with a Nubian brother LOL. The roots of the carnival started in 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time; the UKs first widespread racial attacks (the Notting Hill race riots) had occurred the previous year. The 1959 event, held indoors and televised by the BBC, was organised by Trinidadian Claudia Jones (often described as the mother of the Notting Hill Carnival). By 1976, the event had become definitely Caribbean in flavour, with around 150,000 people attending. However, in that year and several subsequent years, the carnival was marred by riots, in which predominantly Caribbean youths fought with police — a target due to the continuous harassment the population felt they were under. During this period, there was considerable coverage of the disorder in the press, which some felt took an unfairly negative and one-sided view of the carnival. For a while it looked as if the event would be banned. Prince Charles was one of the few establishment figures who supported the event. In recent years, the event has been much freer from serious trouble and is is generall viewed very positively by the authorities as a dynamic celebration of Londons multi-cultural diversity, though dominated by the Caribbean culture. BTW, who is Rita Ora? Apparently she is the person in the Jamaican outfit.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:03:01 +0000
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