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I haven't really got much to add, great thread...
I grew up in as multicultural an environment as you could get, in my little council block my neighbours were Portuguese, Irish, Spanish, Turkish, Nigerian, Jamaican, Indian and then your English, Irish and Scottish...
At school I got tons of racist abuse for being Spanish, the Italian, Portuguese and Turkish kids would get it too... Even tho' we were all white, we weren't the right kind of white... The Jamaican kids didn't get hassled cuz they were the toughest, African kids would get picked on, Asian kids probably got the worst of it, London in the 70s and 80s was no picnic, even if you were a little kid... I got beaten up loads of times for being a dago...
Anyway, I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to grow up around other cultures, I've always been very curious about the way other peoples live, what they eat, what their houses look like, how they interact as a family... Now I'm in Australia I really miss that vibrant mix of backgrounds mixing in the same community... Ironically, I think a lot of British people came here to get away from multicultural Britain, they left the white man's land to go to a stolen black man's land... Very odd indeed...
Let's hope something positive comes out of everything that's happening now, it's about fucking time black people were on an equal footing, let's make discrimination 100% illegal, let's make every policeman and woman 100% accountable for their actions, let's flush out racists and go to fucking war with them if we have to... Fuck the world the way it is now...
And while I'm here please support this...
https://ulurustatement.org/