Racism is not as bad here...hmmm??

 
 


 

This statement in itself, tells you there is racism in this country as well as all the others. People fail to connect the dots and become confused, and then outraged that black people are complaining about rules and systems that we have had to demand be put in place. People explain that they were poor, and their family is poor and had less opportunities than the black people. They are yet to fully comprehend how our struggle works. I am hoping i can help them understand.

Both Becky and Tanya are poor, they both landed on the wrong side of town. The schools are not being well run, the parents struggle to pay the rent, but what is the difference. Maybe the difference is that when Tanya drives her car to work, or plays in a playground, she is left to mind her own business. No one call the cops on them, no questions why they are where they are, no one gives them side glances in shops or on the high street, or clutches their purses closer to themselves.

However Tanya from childhood until adulthood, and then until death is constantly misaligned, mistreated, condemned, questioned, silenced at every turn. When Tanya leaves the house and tries to go to work, a police officer will scream at them to pull over, and begin ensuring the fear of God is placed in them, so they will comply. Tanya when she goes to the shop, will ensure she asks for a receipt in case she is questioned about any purchases she has made. Tanya will prepare to comfort her children who have been called a slur or who have been mistreated because of their race, and try to explain how it is is wrong but is to be an accepted part of the world we live in, and as we explain how long this goes on for we are constantly reminded of how little has changed. Like a 101 class for children into how to manage racism, as a parent looking for positive of images of black children on T.V, social media and in books to help rebuild our childs hurt identity. I would like to know how many black teens have wanted to be lighter, different noses, hair?

Lets be clear, that a becky encounter with the police will end in a ticket or sometimes a stern word, and if not that officer is quickly reprimanded and disciplined but with Tanya it can go from, can i have your I.D, to your resisting arrest to death in mere seconds, and if they try to explain away their actions by giving the reasons behind it like i thought he was reaching for a gun, i feared for my life, while i was crushing his throat.. it still will not justify their actions.

Let me clarify this some more, as we are using the US version of racism when we discuss racism because it is louder,more in your face, and more dangerous, but just because we are looking to help our brothers and sisters overseas, doesn't mean we don't know we face racism here too. Black people in the UK and other more subtler countries, use jokes, comments and social media as their racism tools. They use discrimination and prejudice, microaggressions. They group black people together and tar us all with the same brush. You can be mistaken another black person, no one bothers to learn your actual name unless you make it easier for them. People argue about affirmative action, and don't even realise we wouldn't have even needed that if people would  hire black people and had been giving us fair opportunities from the beginning.

Predominantly black areas are seriously underfunded, loan applications and mortgages, are still questionably hard to get for black families, police pull over black people more than white people, and are given harsher sentences. We constantly get shown microaggressions that indicate your dislike of us. WSP still creeps out and taunts us when they are able to with no repercussions. We constantly face being undermined for the things we are passionate about and people take no interest in learning anything about it, if it doesn't benefit you or effect you.  Law and rules that have previously come in to place, which made 2nd generation of black families suddenly need their parents to have had proof of citizenship, in order to be proven as british. We are technically classified as being nationaless if they don't have this or proof of it... thanks to Margaret Thatcher. How you silence us and stay silent yourselves on important issues of race. How you can rarely talk about black issues in a white dominated area, because the first thing you will here is "its not like that over here""i have a black friend so im not racist""i am not racist" "there's two sides to every story"etc.

The biggest joke is you harp on about us being in your country, but you forget we are only here because you came to ours, stole what you wanted, ransacked it and left us to pick up the pieces. You also invited us over, during your times of struggle with the false promise of houses, jobs and security and so when we took you up on it, you reacted with confused outrages about people taking over your jobs, country etc.

Racism is not as hot in this country but please know it is just as rife, and we all know that the UK follows the USA and with them now electing a president who is quite happy to stir civil unrest, and we have picked one similar. I cannot understand how you can stay in denial, so we no doubt will soon suffer the same, and so it is wise of us to start speaking out, and preparing ourselves, because we know you wont see it until your watching a video, showing our very lives leaving this earth, at the hand of a WST.





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