3)

RPD: The BAA site shines a spotlight on the blatant injustice of anyone attempting to enter Britain with the misfortune to be
born with a suntan and no British passport but coming from an ex-British colony it actually works against you it gives a in-
Sight into how problematic it is to gain entry once you make contact with the immigration system if your status don't fit the
bill and you just happen to fall into the category of a yardie [Jamaican gangster]. How convenient it is that the so called
authorities can make a decision based on their stereotyped media hype when just a little while ago the British government
used to recruit West Indian labour to help build and service Britain.

MF: Richard, BlackLash (http://www.mongrel.org.uk/BlackLash) is one of the most sickest, violent anti-police games avail-
able on the planet, but the four black stereotypes that players have to choose from are also taking the piss out of ‘the com-
munity’. What's going on? - and who's the game aimed at - Blonde kids from Surrey who want to play Tottenham rough-
necks for a day? ‘

RPO: BlackLash is based on a combination of stereotypical half truths and hardcore reality coming from the point of view
of a young black male trying to survive inner city life in the nineties hence the name BlackLash, You choose one of the
stereohyped characters after which you then proceed to battle the forces of evil that plot to convict or eliminate you from
the streets. It also aims to encourage the black community through game culture that it is possible to break into different
areas apart from music, and create games that have got some thing to say. Yah heard

MJ: | believe BlackLash speaks in volume to the black community, | believe the innovation is a brilliant wake up call for
young black people it may look like a classic notorious shoot em up game but my interpretation of the characteristic of
black lash is that is a serious wake ‘em up call. its all about ‘REPRESENT’ who is representing whom:

9 questions | ask? who are you bout yuh want test bad man crew, little punk its best if yuh calm before mi <underline>ma-
chine</underline> (gun) tun onn. <bold>Black Lash</bold> a ask who are you how yuh want test wicked man crew, little
punk its best if yuh calm before mi <underline>machine</underline> (computer) tun onn 9.

My analysis of this is yesterday - BlackLash. And tomorrow? Seems ironic, but the people will get the message - Peace

MF: It seems clear that the variety of competing art systems in the UK are largely designed to exclude work that is social-
'y, technically and aesthetically conflictual, whilst at the same time relying on the retrospective absorption of many such
Currents in order to validate their position as liberal/open/laboratories of subjectivity/ (delete as applicable). Has Mongrel
come up with any ways of dealing with this? Are you ready to be dug up as a particularly noxious but sedated time capsule
in twenty years time?

H: | think its time we decided to take on the media by mounting it from the rear. | feel more and more that there is no place
for us in the usual areducation environment and that we have to make our own. | think we need to design projects that
Carve out a place in the media and manipulate it < a kind of popular independent media > somewhere between under-
ground music clubs and class war. No one else will realise we make good stuff unless we tell the bastards in a way that
takes the piss out of them. | feel confident that if we take on the media now we have the skills to deal with it without loos-
ing touch with who we are. Bollocks to the “sedated time capsule" take it while we are alive.

Mi: If the question is as a mongrel am | waiting for something better (a buy/sell out) offer so that we (1) will conveniently
shut the fuck up and live a quiet conservative life......Mr Jarman may be but mervin@mongrel no fucking way not on their
tiny little willie - the driving force behind my motivation comes from far further than consumerism and giving credibility to
or validate any position as liberaVopen or otherwise suggested - life is one big road with a lot of signs on both side as a
mongrel these signs can either be objective, subjective and/or rejective and my endeavour is to speak when | am not spo-
ken to and that is to speak my truth.

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