05/08/2024
Over the weekend, we celebrated James Baldwin’s birthday whilst riots broke out in Liverpool and elsewhere against immigration. The morning after, videos of white men attacking people of colour, fill my feed, images of libraries and food banks needlessly and recklessly burnt to the ground. I see a man online wearing an England shirt whilst performing acts of brutality, it validates my mixed emotions toward England during national tournaments. These bastards are the same people who will ask why I can’t just watch the football without thinking of immigration and question why race is brought into everything. The horror I’ve seen from the safety of my home will stay with me long after those places have been rebuilt.
‘𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦’
The way in which stories of white perpetrators inflicting harm onto people of colour are reported is by definition trauma. Endless headlines demonising non white people does not move through the psyche without leaving a stain.
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