https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben Attitudes towards the Empire en-us 2017-11-06 15:43:58 UTC 2017-11-09 19:11:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452184 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." ]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452184 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452221 '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]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452221 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452313 "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. ]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452313 williamsa18 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452391 I thought, OBE me? Up yours]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452391 miketowers066 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452452 "Up yours, I thought"]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452452 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452453 'i am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity;]]> 2017-11-09 19:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452453 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452648 "It reminds me of slavery ,it reminds me of how my foremother were raped and my forefather brutalised"]]> 2017-11-09 19:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452648 williamsa18 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452827 I get angry when I hear that word 'empire']]> 2017-11-09 19:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205452827 williamsa18 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205453557 Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen]]> 2017-11-09 19:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205453557 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454121 Benjamin is surprised by even getting the opportunity for this award what the queen wanted to give this award]]> 2017-11-09 19:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454121 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454186 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.]]> 2017-11-09 19:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454186 williamsa18 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454554 It reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years brutality]]> 2017-11-09 19:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454554 miketowers066 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454810 It reminds me of thousands of years of brutality]]> 2017-11-09 19:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454810 bradleyo1 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454935 It reminds me of slavery]]> 2017-11-09 19:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205454935 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455014 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]]> 2017-11-09 19:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455014 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455020 led me to believe that the history of black people started with slavery ]]> 2017-11-09 19:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455020 bradleyo1 https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455386 Be grateful that we were given freedom by our caring white masters]]> 2017-11-09 19:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nieldw/ben/wish/205455386