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TIME CAPSULE BURIED Slave Trade’ plays with fire... ‘Playing History:
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ceremonial time capsule will be placed in the ground at the start (and end) line of the new National Speedway Stadium – a major development that is part of the Belle Vue Sports Village.
The time capsule – that will be dug up and opened in fifty years – contains objects and ephemera from the wide ranging partners involved in the development of the Belle Vue Sports Village as a lasting celebration of the project, and as a snapshot of the local area for future generations to uncover.
tourism sites, the creation of Belle Vue Sport Village will revive the area’s standing as a major landmark in the city – with top facilities for both community and elite users. The development will bring world class significant national centres for both speedway and basketball to Manchester – along with a new National Speedway Academy that will look to develop the next generation of riders.
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s if making light of our horrendous history is what we should be feeding our children’s minds, the makers of highly-offensive game ‘Playing History: Slave Trade’ are essentially ‘playing with fire.’
The development will also see two new 3G artificial grass pitches and a programme of modernisation The full capsule “Belle Vue Sport Village will revive to the Belle was buried today the area’s standing as a major Vu e L e i s u r e and contained Centre. The articles from each landmark in the city” improvements of the partners, will support a new programme of including: Manchester City Council; The community rugby league and football, as Belle Vue Aces speedway team; main well as provide St Peter’s RC High School contractor for the site, ISG; Eastlands Trust; with state of the art facilities for curriculum Sport England; England Basketball; and St and extra curriculum PE and sport. Peter’s High School.
Game developer Serious Game Interactive (SGI) and Steam, the online game platform, are the companies behind the insensitive game that apparently is supposed to “teach” our children the horrors of the transAtlantic African slave trade. While TNT struggles to come to terms with the fact that human beings actually created this game, here’s a brief description of the game.
The purpose built speedway venue – boasting a 1,842 seat grandstand –will be capable of hosting both national and international race meetings, attracting some of the world’s best riders to east Manchester.
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Each partner chose objects that are special or important to their organisations’ history – or will be interesting to future generations as a symbol of the time it was buried.Historically one of the city’s most popular leisure and
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History: How America nuked Hiroshima’? Lee Jasper, Co-Chair of Black Activist Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) stated, “This so-called Slave Tetris game is grossly offensive and deeply insulting to black people. Online unreconstructed racism is out of control, reflecting a growth in racism in the real world. This company should be forced to withdraw this vile product.”
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The Playing History game series “revolves around experiencing engaging and personal stories set in exhilarating Let’s get back to basics here; the Oxford dictionary’s definition of a ‘game’ is “an activity providing entertainment or amusement.” So what is entertaining or amusing about the events of one of the cruelest injustices in human history? How is stacking slaves in ships like in the Tetris game something that can be termed “cute”, as some commentators suggest? Will SGI and Steam be making ‘Playing History: Auschwitz’ or ‘Playing
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You play as an 18th century African trans-Atlantic slave witnessing the slave trade firsthand. You serve the white captain and are his eyes and ears – reporting any suspicious activities. In addition, you get to stack slaves on the ship just like you stack blocks on Tetris.
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anchester is continuing to bloom as roadsides and parks have exploded with colour after thousands of wildflowers paid for due to an airport windfall have blossomed. Around 30 sites across the city are about to burst into life after wildflower seeds have been planted as part of a project paid for by Manchester Council’s clean city fund. Motorists driving through the city will be able to appreciate the flowers, with sites planted along main routes such as Oldham Road, Rochdale Road and Ashton New Road. This follows another project which will see a million spring bulbs planted across the city’s parks green spaces and roadsides by the end
of the year. Around 600,000 have already been planted over the last 18 months, with another 400,000 planted by this autumn. And, under the National Wildflower Centre’s A Tale Of Two Cities scheme, flowers planted along Princess Parkway in Hulme are now creating an explosion of colour for people driving in and out of the city centre. Many of the planting schemes have been paid for thanks to the £14.5m clean city fund, provided due to the City Council’s shareholding in Manchester Airports Group, which is now being used to provide one-off projects which will benefit the appearance and environment of Manchester.
TNT’s stance is that the game is an affront to social progression, positive education and all the hard work achieved by the Civil Rights movement and the countless heroes in our history as a people.
What do you think of this ‘game’? Join the debate with TNT @TheNubianTimes and on Facebook.
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