Donnerstag, 26. April 2018

Stephen Lawrence: Murder that shook UK's racial dynamics

April 22, 1993, killing of black man by five white youths laid bare Met Police incompetence, corruption and racism.
From the "Keep Britain White" mobs who went "n**ger hunting" during the Notting Hill riots in 1958, through to the recent deportation of the children of the Windrush generation, the marginalisation of black Britons is an ancient British tale of a nation anxious of creeping multiculturalism and "dark strangers".
Following post-war Commonwealth migration, racism, that ugly word that brings with it entire histories and generations of trauma, was relegated to the archives of Britain's imperial past.

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