“Mixed-Racedness” by its nature is political, especially historically where interracial relationships were met with chal

Granddad Street is indicative of numerous Black histories that aren’t as monoracial as we are told they are, learning through our ancestors whose trees we continue to grow — root, branch and stem.

Currently, Black History Month is used to discuss the positives those racialised as Black have given to the world. I argue not all Black history has to be positive and not all of it has to empower. What about the Afro-Germans murdered in the Nazi Holocaust? What about the institutionally racist practices used during World War One that prevented capable Black soldiers from leading white European soldiers into battle? What about the anti-racist struggles of the 1970s? I don’t see my history in the Race Relations Act or the Macpherson Report; it’s in those parties of the Windrush in my grandparents’ front room, and West Indian clubs. It’s in the choices my ancestors chose and didn’t choose, the colonisers and the colonised. It is in the Black lives matter movement but it is also in the lives of my Mixed-Race and Black grandmothers. Uncovering the social history of Black people requires speaking to those that lived it or know about it. Black history is intimate and I would not know about Mister Street without speaking to my father. I would never have known about my Multiracial multi-ethnic diverse history had I not talked to my relatives.

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most cumbersome areas of artificial intelligence when it comes to data preprocessing. Apart from the preprocessing and tokenizing text datasets, it takes a lot of time to train successful NLP models. But today is your lucky day! We will build a sentiment classifier with a pre-trained NLP model: BERT.

Though Britain didn’t practice laws that forbade interracial relationships within Britain, there was not a consensus in society during the early to mid-20th century that racial mixing was a good thing. Much alike Great-Grandma Jessica and my Grandma Val, Mary Jane Grant Seacole was also a Mixed-Race Jamaican woman. My family history is also a story that shows that Mixed-Race isn’t just half this half that; it tells a story of pluralities. There is diversity in my melanin and that while my father and grandmother both identify as Black, the diversity inside this Blackness is worthy of discussion.

I prepared this tutorial because it is somehow very difficult to find a blog post with actual working BERT code from the beginning till the end. They are always full of bugs. So, I have dug into several articles, put together their codes, edited them, and finally have a working BERT model. So, just by running the code in this tutorial, you can actually create a BERT model and fine-tune it for sentiment analysis.

So, I don’t want to dive deep into BERT since we need a whole different post for that. In fact, I already scheduled a post aimed at comparing rival pre-trained NLP models. But, you will have to wait for a bit.

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contrary to the speculation of some who thought Apple might be out over its skis, it’s absolutely ready for prime time. There’s really no other way to look at it. Apple promised that its new Macs would be both faster and more efficient. And in real-world use, they definitely are. At least, that’s my assessment after using the lowest-end device, the MacBook Air.

Whilst it is vital to show how Black people have contributed to the world, we also have to discuss the complexities of some Black identities and how fluid Black can be (i.e US’ one drop rule). Seeing how Barack Obama is lauded as the first Black POTUS despite being raised by his white mother makes me ask more questions about pluralities. This is not by any means me questioning his Kenyan heritage but seldom do we talk about Whiteness in relation to that story. Would Barack Obama have been president if he was raised in a Black family in the United States, with all the challenges that can bring? Even when we see how polished Obama had to become to be POTUS? How long until a Black person from a working-class background sits in the White House?

Mary Seacole is an icon and should be celebrated but she, much akin to Walter Tull, have become a staple of Black/Brown British exceptionalism and indicative of ‘good Black British history’

Granddad Street is indicative of numerous Black histories that aren’t as monoracial as we are told they are, learning through our ancestors whose trees we continue to grow — root, branch and stem.

BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and it is a state-of-the-art machine learning model used for NLP tasks. Jacob Devlin and his colleagues developed BERT at Google in 2018. Devlin and his colleagues trained the BERT on English Wikipedia (2,500M words) and BooksCorpus (800M words) and achieved the best accuracies for some of the NLP tasks in 2018. There are two pre-trained general BERT variations: The base model is a 12-layer, 768-hidden, 12-heads, 110M parameter neural network architecture, whereas the large model is a 24-layer, 1024-hidden, 16-heads, 340M parameter neural network architecture. Figure 2 shows the visualization of the BERT network created by Devlin et al.

Amanda Steinberg plays Leyna in Amma Asante film ‘Where Hands Touch’ provoking audiences to look at the histories of Afro-Germans in the context of the Holocaust during Second World War (1939–1945)

During a pandemic where we are physical distancing, this makes unity even more vital in the history Coronavirus has created. Understanding who I am as someone that is Mixed-Race and Black is not only in the policy changes or big events like the London Riots or Black Lives Matter protests. Mixed-Race is not about half and half; it’s not about white and other, nor is it about Black and white. There is pluraty in Mixed-Race identity and it is this narrative I am interested in seeing more of in conversations about race and identity.

Here, I have only talked about Ireland and the Caribbean but there are so many more stories to tell. Dad tells me there is also Chinese in the family and I’m sure that raises more questions. Do these pluralities interrupt Blackness? That’s an open question and the answers will vary from person to person.

Black History Month can also be used to discuss the Mixed-Race histories that stand alongside Black historical narratives. Mixed-Race has its own history, and my own family story is indicative of that, as it crosses both Multiracial and multi-ethnic lines. In knowing about Mister Street and my Mixed-Race Jamaican-Irish ancestry, I am led to believe that more can be done to discuss the intersectionalities across ethnic lines both now and in history.