2084
Rohan Canney stretched his feet out in front of him as he
glanced about the spacious chamber he was seated in.
He casually turned his shoulder and head to one side and
located the holographic video player in a large recess in the wall. He started
to flick through images and tunes in his brain and soon selected, via a
synaptic link to the holographic player, the tune of his choice.
A couple of milliseconds later the room was full with the
crash and bash of a classical El Barrone track.
The riotous guitar
riffs thrashed about the room as Rohan Canney and his fellow music enthusiasts
closed their eyes and recoiled in the joy of listening to the classical tunes
of their great grandfather’s youth.
The group of teenagers had known each other for many years,
as had their collective fathers and grandfathers before them. The music had a
special empathy for Raj Barron as his great grandfather had compiled the
classical track that they were listening to, almost one hundred years earlier.
Indeed the centenary
of the “Great Leap of Faith and Change” was almost upon the nineteen year old's,
and all were happily planning how they would enjoy the three day holiday, after attending the Church, Mosque and Temple.
The melodious cacophony was interrupted when Alexei Brown
entered the room with Marik Mosley, Ajit Artimarti and Mohinderjit Doyle. They stood before the
seated incumbents and held out in front of them an old plastic container which
appeared to hold a tape like substance. After a number of suggestions, Raj Barron
decided that it must be an ancient artifact that was believed to have been
called a Cassette Tape or Video tape.
After flicking
through the reference books located in their collective minds, it was soon
decided that the article was a video cassette. Mohiderjit Doyle remembered that
he had seen an old Video player in his families vaulted tomb, and soon they
were all in the Highgate cemetery Complex gathered around the antique object.
Rohan Canney pulled a small battery pack from his hip pocket
and placed the old plug in to the multiple socket provided with the novelty
battery pack. Soon the old machinery was humming in to life, and the tape was
carefully slotted in to the machines gaping orifice.
All stood back as a strange scene began to play in front of
the startled ensemble.
A sweeping view of a London street was playing on the
ancient recorder, and the huddled mass could not believe their eyes as the
local populace went about their way. To
the amazement of them all, the faces were white, black or brown and dressed in obsolete western clothing.
They had all heard the strange and unsettling stories that
the peoples of England were not only white, but a mixture of races, but most
who heard this blasphemy dismissed it immediately. But there in front of them
was the truth.
A multi ethnic and multi cultural society that had existed prior to the “Big Change”.
A cine film originally created in 1975 and later transferred
to video tape confirmed the joyous truth.
The ancestors of each and every member of the gang of
teenagers were white, black and brown and had carried their various heritages
through their blood lines and that of their wives and girlfriends culminating
in the coffee coloured race that now flourished throughout Europe and the
United States in the year 2084.
Shocked they all returned to their music room and after
passing round a strong round of Large Vodka and Orange, saluted their ancestors
and drunk themselves in to a stupor and then gentle sleep, dreaming of the
strange world their great great grandfathers had occupied in the distant 1970's, 80's and 90's.
