An Interesting Day

So my friend had asked me last week or the week before if I was free today to join her on a march in Central London. With the G20 conference happening there have been quite a few demonstrations against all that is wrong with the world.

At the time I thought I had a test but it turned out that I had already done it last week. So with me being free, she asked me again if I wanted to tag along and I said okay.

I’ve never been on a protest so this was all new to me.

I must say I enjoyed it.

Everyone around me including my very passionate friend were screaming their heads off and I found it hard to as I’m not really a loud person generally. But being in a crowd like that gets you into the mood and even I started shouting. Twas quite fun.

It started in Grosvenor Square (which took ages to find as she messed up with map or something) and ended at Trafalgar Square where there were many lively and enthusiastic speakers.

What I found quite wonderful was the fact that most of the people were non-muslims protesting for the rights of Muslims around the world i.e. Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine were the main ones mentioned.

I use the word loosely, but Asians in general love to complain but they don’t do much themselves to make a change. And that’s me included. We all have such a defeatist attitude which will never get us anywhere and nothing will ever happen thinking like that. We need to be more active, make more people aware about what’s happening and what’s wrong with the world and try and make some kind of difference, small or large. Slowly and surely it may help in some way.

That being said I don’t think protests make much difference to how the worlds run. That’s not to say I disagree or disregard them. I’m all for them as there has to be awareness for there to be a change in the first place. What I’m trying to say is look how many marched against the Iraq war? Did anything change? Not a bit.

The sad fact is that politicians will do what they want, when they want, regardless of what their people want. We are tricked into thinking we live in a democracy but we don’t. We elect them but we are always the losers no matter who is in power.

All in all quite an eye opening experience and one that I hope I’ll repeat some day.

One of the speakers was a rapper called LowKey who is from London. I’ve been checking out some of his tracks on Youtube and I must say I’m amazed at how good he is! His flow is brilliant, his lyrics are hard hitting and inspiring and he has raw talent. I hope he becomes massive as he could bring a big change on the scale of the 2pac if he had a chance as most of his lyrics are political and about making a change.

Anyways getting late.

Until next time.

Peace.

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