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Angry as this is reminding him if the slavery days. "I get angry when I hear the word empire. It reminds me of years of brutality, it reminds me of how foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised."

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'Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours' Benjamin feels insulted because OBE means Order of British empire and he feels that they are mocking him by giving him this award

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"OBE me? Up yours, I thought" this suggests to me the reader that Benjamin Zephaniah feels insulted by the way he expresses himself for example he uses a rhetorical question which indicates him being sarcastic and after that he uses the words 'up yours' which is an insult.

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I thought, OBE me? Up yours

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"Up yours, I thought"

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'i am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity;

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"It reminds me of slavery ,it reminds me of how my foremother were raped and my forefather brutalised"

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I get angry when I hear that word 'empire'

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Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen

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led me to believe that the history of black people started with slavery

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Benjamin is surprised by even getting the opportunity for this award what the queen wanted to give this award

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Up yours I thought. He feels very insulted as he doesn't want to be reminded. He doesn't want to feel like he's insulted.

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It reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years brutality

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It reminds me of thousands of years of brutality

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It reminds me of slavery

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He feels disappointed because he turned down this award because it stands for this award stands for 'order of British empire' he doesn't he's disappointed because he doesn't stand the empire because ofwhat  they did

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Be grateful that we were given freedom by our caring white masters