The message behind Awaking is 'truth knows no colour' and that a lot of hurts, abuses and dysfunctional problems lay within the person because of the social problems of their communities. It is as important to look at community and self in a realistic way as it is to separate the community mentality from the ghetto.

To take my community, Chapeltown the community and Chapeltown the ghetto are on opposite sides, even though they share so much.

The ghetto is a mentality of blues, crack, smack, prostitution, addiction, laugh, lust, poverty and violence. The community is made up of people of all ages and all 'races' working and striving to put something back into the lives of those they live with. It is made up of youth workers, single mothers, Miss Caribbean Sunset, carnival, black history events, coffee mornings, women days, black male forums... to name a few.