Dread Beat and Blood - ACE065.8

Johnson talking about his poem All we’re doin’ is Defending, and describes the mood of resentment he sensed among black people, together with a determination to fight against police brutality. Johnson’s VO reciting the poem over scenes at the Notting Hill Carnival riots in 1976. Police cars, large numbers of police officers on the streets, young people being chased and carried away, officers using truncheons, black youths attacking a car, etc. Johnson’s VO talking about the young, British-born black generation beginning to assert themselves and coming into conflict with society at large. Johnson reading A brand new breed of blacks have now emerged, leadin’ on the rough scene… In the offices of Race Today. Johnson’s VO describes this magazine as being at the forefront of the anti-racist struggle.