Shaunie Investigates: Another Day But The Same Ol' Narrative

When we have intelligent, articulate people like UK Rapper, Akala ready and willing to provide an knowledgeable perspective on knife crime within the UK, why does Good Morning Britain insist on using the stereotypical representation of what society has depicted the black man of being?

UK Hip Hop Artist, Writer & Educator, Akala.

"Is it because it's funny and it fits the narrative that these type of media outlets want to put out to their majoritively white audience - black people are either aggressive, illiterate or Jesters?"

ITV's Good Morning Britain,  had guest Faron Paul was on the programme discussing an informal knife amnesty scheme he has set up.

Faron gives vouchers to people that have passed their knives onto him after making contact via email or social media. Faron explained that this amnesty was a good incentive for getting knives off the street and instead of giving money, he gives these 'could-be' criminals high street vouchers.

A Just Giving page had been set up to help raise funds to pay for the vouchers but unfortunately the page was recently shut down, forcing Faron to recently incur costs of £300 for vouchers to get 30 knives off the street.

Although I may not fully agree with the concept of this scheme, ("because knives are so easy to obtain, someone could easily just hand in seven knives, collect seven £10 vouchers and go buy a decent pair of sneakers from JD Sports,") I do believe Faron sees his intentions as good.

Piers Morgan's presenting style is not always favoured, he is well-known for interrupting guests and not allowing people to finish their sentences, however this was the first time I have seen Piers allow someone to actually speak. The first time I have seen Piers not be combative and form an argument about this topic, and it was the first time I was begging Piers to interject and say something.

He didn't even ask about what Faron does with the knives he has been given?

"Say something for f*cksake" was all I could yell while watching this mess and the fact it was us doing it to ourselves for 10 whole minutes, pissed me off even more.

Good Morning Britain Presenter, Piers Morgan

For the entire 10 minute interview I just watched with disappointment. I would of liked to have seen Faron on that stage with someone like Akala. The old school and the new school giving two perspectives of today's black man.

At the end of the interview, Faron gets up and walks off whilst still on camera.

Did he not pay attention to the producer's directions before the interview begun?

Good Morning Britain likes to create conversation on Twitter so this would of been a hit for them.

This reminds me of when DrillMinister was on the programme and although he had a decent song to promote and he spoke sense, him wearing a balaclava was the conversation on social media that day.

Some of us black people really need to stop living up to these racial stereotypes that these people have of us, stop giving their narratives life.

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*KultraVultra is not affiliated with any knife amnesty scheme.