Comments for Black Looks http://www.blacklooks.org Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on A city of loneliness disguised – if YOU disappeared would anyone miss you? by Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-city-of-loneliness-disguised-if-you-disappeared-would-anyone-miss-you/#comment-131634 Sokari Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:27 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9109#comment-131634 I wonder how often this happens in other countries in the west where the elderly are left to fend for themselves. As for why Joyce was discovered when she was - I think the council had come round to repossess the flat after non payment of rent. The question is why did they wait 3 years to collect rent arrears? I still cant get my head around the fact that Joyce Vincent was wrapping xmas presents and the intended recipients never came to look for her or wondered where she was? Am I missing something or is this a huge tragedy? I wonder how often this happens in other countries in the west where the elderly are left to fend for themselves. As for why Joyce was discovered when she was – I think the council had come round to repossess the flat after non payment of rent. The question is why did they wait 3 years to collect rent arrears? I still cant get my head around the fact that Joyce Vincent was wrapping xmas presents and the intended recipients never came to look for her or wondered where she was? Am I missing something or is this a huge tragedy?

]]> Comment on A city of loneliness disguised – if YOU disappeared would anyone miss you? by Mia Nikasimo http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-city-of-loneliness-disguised-if-you-disappeared-would-anyone-miss-you/#comment-131633 Mia Nikasimo Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:55 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9109#comment-131633 Precisely. I remember a similar sitaution when I lived in the Newington Green area of North London. It is that dull malaise that people indulge in as an excuse for community. A woman died and no one knew for days just like that and then the stench got so overpowering that something had to be done or the "landlord" risked losing tenants and suddenly he was around to find out why he wasn't getting his rent from one particular tenant. All the complaints of a stench didn't matter a bit. The door was open and there lay the corpse of a woman -dead! Which brings me back to Joyce Vincent and the rest of us as human beings. In the days up to discovering Joyce somethings must have happened. What did? And for the rest of us, what is happening to us as a species? What happened to our humanity? Precisely. I remember a similar sitaution when I lived in the Newington Green area of North London. It is that dull malaise that people indulge in as an excuse for community. A woman died and no one knew for days just like that and then the stench got so overpowering that something had to be done or the “landlord” risked losing tenants and suddenly he was around to find out why he wasn’t getting his rent from one particular tenant. All the complaints of a stench didn’t matter a bit.

The door was open and there lay the corpse of a woman -dead! Which brings me back to Joyce Vincent and the rest of us as human beings. In the days up to discovering Joyce somethings must have happened. What did? And for the rest of us, what is happening to us as a species? What happened to our humanity?

]]> Comment on About by Anni http://www.blacklooks.org/about/#comment-131632 Anni Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:55:05 +0000 http://1845050091#comment-131632 Hi Thanks for a nice blog. I would like to share a link to a nice dancing video. The purpose is to change the image of Sierra Leone to something more happy and positivt. Please check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75gx9Ff9vUk Hi
Thanks for a nice blog. I would like to share a link to a nice dancing video. The purpose is to change the image of Sierra Leone to something more happy and positivt.
Please check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75gx9Ff9vUk

]]> Comment on When ‘i’ means ignorance by Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/when-i-means-ignorance/#comment-131629 Sokari Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:22:07 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9114#comment-131629 The I for ignorance should also be extended to the abuse and bullying [well same thing I guess] on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. In some twitterspheres it is rampant eg Nigeria. Sadly I wrote about this together with Mshairi back in 2006 and it is just getting worse. The I for ignorance should also be extended to the abuse and bullying [well same thing I guess] on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. In some twitterspheres it is rampant eg Nigeria. Sadly I wrote about this together with Mshairi back in 2006 and it is just getting worse.

]]> Comment on A city of loneliness disguised – if YOU disappeared would anyone miss you? by Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-city-of-loneliness-disguised-if-you-disappeared-would-anyone-miss-you/#comment-131620 Sokari Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:49:47 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9109#comment-131620 Yes I agree that love and friendship or the practice of humanity / compassion is our protection against living and dying alone. But no one is born alone. At the very least we spend up to 9 months in our mothers womiSync in most cases she is with us when we are born! Thanks for the link. Which I will check Yes I agree that love and friendship or the practice of humanity / compassion is our protection against living and dying alone. But no one is born alone. At the very least we spend up to 9 months in our mothers womiSync in most cases she is with us when we are born! Thanks for the link. Which I will check

]]> Comment on A city of loneliness disguised – if YOU disappeared would anyone miss you? by Dave Lucas http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-city-of-loneliness-disguised-if-you-disappeared-would-anyone-miss-you/#comment-131619 Dave Lucas Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:49:02 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9109#comment-131619 ""We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship, can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone." ~ Orson Welles And may I recommend to you and your readers: http://www.jewlicious.com/2006/11/building-a-world-of-compassion/ “”We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship, can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.” ~ Orson Welles

And may I recommend to you and your readers:
http://www.jewlicious.com/2006/11/building-a-world-of-compassion/

]]> Comment on The Oh My God farce! by Mia Nikasimo http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/the-oh-my-god-farce-1/#comment-131614 Mia Nikasimo Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:57:14 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9107#comment-131614 Exactly! This is how we all feel when courage emboldens us to speak up in the face of tyranny religious or otherwise. Thanks. Exactly! This is how we all feel when courage emboldens us to speak up in the face of tyranny religious or otherwise. Thanks.

]]> Comment on The Oh My God farce! by Shailja Patel http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/the-oh-my-god-farce-1/#comment-131613 Shailja Patel Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:09:19 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9107#comment-131613 Laser-sharp, laser-funny. Hilariously quotable. Thank you! Laser-sharp, laser-funny. Hilariously quotable. Thank you!

]]> Comment on The Oh My God farce! by Keguro http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/the-oh-my-god-farce-1/#comment-131612 Keguro Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:05:04 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9107#comment-131612 Mia, absolutely amazing! Mia, absolutely amazing!

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