Notes on 'Pressure' (Horace Ove, 1976)

• British food - fry up - typical 'English' Breakfast
• Reggae music played past the shop
• Breakfast similar to Trinidad - avocado/zaboca (what the 'natives' call it)
• Tension between the two brothers and their identity (Breakfast scene, eating different food, eating differently - knife and fork compared to slicing the avocado with a knife in your hand
• Different taste in music
• Different sides of the table
• Never got a job before
• "Not like us. He born here" - Different
• Just because he's black he wasn't born in England
• Tony doesn't understand why he didn't get the jobs before
• The interviewer assumes Tony has been in trouble with the police before because he's black
• The white interviewers stare at Tony when he coughs
• Song playing over the noise 'Mother sent me to a World so unfriendly'
• English education should sort you out for your life
• 'Bill Haley times'
• Meeting about black people, instead Tony goes to the 'Bird's Nest' with his white friends
• Reggae music played during the black power meeting
• English education keeps black children "suppressed and blind to what is going on"
• Bitterness, hatred and anger results from the system
• Chicken and chips
• Land Lady chucks out Tony because he's black but doesn't say it herself, she implies it
• Black people accused of 'rape' towards white women
• Tony says 'pate' instead of 'pattie'
• Black person is arrested for carrying an 'afro-comb' as it looks like an "offensive weapon"
• Brother Colin wants Tony to 'think Black'
• Individualism is a white man's desire
• Colour, culture, Collectiveness = Blackness
• "Black people dress up, kneel and beg the white man (Jesus) for forgiveness
• Drive all black thoughts from your heart and replace them with white good ones
• Black people already 'Under all that pressure' - then the police always pick them up off the street
• "To the white man, every black man look the same"