This article first appeared on Amber’s personal blog Oh for crying out loud. I mean really. Come on 2016, are you actually for real? Adults dressing as clowns then dashing about high street; every decent celebrity dying, talks of tea & jam fueling Britain’s economy, Brexit, Theresa May as Prime Minister, Nigel Farage & Bob […]
Racism
Remember Ronald Reagan
Remember when Ronald Reagan opened his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair, in the same community in which the three civil rights workers were murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963? Remember when the week before Super Tuesday Ronald Reagan gave a “tough on crime” speech in Stone Mountain, […]
Racism in the UK
“We’ve had enough of your kind, take that off your head or join Isis”. These were the words spat at 20-year-old Hannah Moustafa by an angry elderly gentleman earlier this month. His “reasons”? She was wearing a hijab. Nothing more. In may of this year, Daniel Way, 37, was found guilty of racially aggravated assault […]