Tonight, eight former Labour insiders break their silence on Mr Corbyn’s failure to drive out anti-Semitism. ibid.
Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis burst into the open in April 2016 with a row in Westminster. ibid.
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has sparked America’s biggest series of protests over race in a generation, highlighting once again the deep divide between black and white. With violent scenes and police forces seemingly out of control. The protests have gone global. Panorama: George Floyd: A Killing that Shook the World, BBC 2020
Could George Floyd’s death finally force America to confront the scourge of racism within. ibid.
Derek Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder. ibid.
The latest in an endless line of lives taken by violent cops. It is part of the black experience: an American tragedy. ibid.
The Church of England’s broken promises on race and racism. We speak to clergy claiming discrimination. Panorama: Is the Church Racist? Clive Myrie reporting, BBC 2021
Only one in ten accepted for training into the Church of England are from ethnic minority backgrounds. ibid.
Of the clergy who lead them [services], only one in twenty-five is from an ethnic minority background. ibid.
Los Angeles, 1942: A city thrown into a state of panic following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As tension mounts, bigotry and hatred rise to the surface and the young Mexican-Americans become public enemy number one. This is the shocking story of wartime hysteria. Wartime Crime s1e4: Zoot Suit Riots, Yesterday 2018
President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 which displaces Japanese-Americans from their homes and forces them into internment camps across the West Coast. ibid.
Los Angeles goes to war with these teenagers. ibid.
Sleepy Lagoon murder January 12th 1943: Henry Leyvas and two friends are found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison while nine others are interred in San Quentin for second-degree murder. ibid.
It is an idea that has spawned hatred, war and genocide. It is one of the most polarizing questions we’ve ever been asked. Do different races not just look different, are they fundamentally different? Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s3e2: Is There a Superior Race? Science 2012
Almost every aspect of our biology changed as we migrated across the world … Our DNA loves to gamble. ibid.
1921 Greenwood: 11,000 residents of the city: within this community lie 108 black-owned businesses, 2 theatres, 2 black-owned schools and 15 doctor’s offices. In Search of History s4e3: The Night Tulsa Burned, History 1999
The worst race riot in American history: Greenwood is destroyed. In less than 24 hours a white mob reduces Black Wall Street to 36 square blocks of smouldering rubbles, scores of African-Americans are killed, and thousands are left homeless. ibid.
One of the greatest figures in history: Martin Luther King who will always be remembered for telling the world about his dream for America. I remember the exact moment fifty years ago when he was gunned down. Martin Luther King by Trevor McDonald, ITV 2018
Before Martin Luther King, Americans in the south were unequal, segregated and excluded. By the time he was killed, all Americans were truly free. In my view few have achieved as much. ibid.
Not getting up for a white passenger put Rosa Parks at the mercy of a brutal system. ibid.
Black Birmingham was about to face Bull Connor’s water cannon and his dogs. ibid.
Powell: ‘In this country in 15 or 20 years time the black man will have the whip hand over the white.’ Rivers of Blood: 50 Years On, Channel 5 2018
On April 20th 1968 Conservative MP Enoch Powell made one of the most racially provocative speeches in British history. ibid. caption
Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of blood’ speech was his warning about the dangers of mass immigration. Powell feared Britain’s changing identity. ibid.
‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.’ ibid. Powell
‘We were told that it was the mother country.’ ibid. senior black Caribbean woman
Around 470,000 new Commonwealth immigrants entered Britain between 1955 and 1962. ibid.
In the aftermath of the Rivers of Blood speech, Enoch Powell was sacked from the shadow Cabinet. Thousands marched in support and against him. ibid.
I can’t serve blacks in this bar. I’d lose all my respectable customers. Ken Loach, The Wednesday Plays: 3 Clear Sundays, BBC 1965
In December 2015 14 people were murdered in San Bernardino by home-grown Islamists. Life for American Muslims would never be the same again as hate and violence was directed at them like never before. United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack, BBC 2018
It’s become normal to label a whole community as terrorists. ibid.
55% of Americans have expressed some kind of negative views towards Islam. ibid.
Ice skating is not used to black skaters [Surya Bonaly]. Losers s1e3: Judgement, fan, Netflix 2019
I was raised with white parents. ibid. Surya
I was only 11 when I first moved to Paris. ibid.
Surya’s talent was of momentous proportions. ibid. contemporary
Surya enters the world of major international competitions. She is not welcomed by the judges. ibid.
It was more of a court jester’s outfit. ibid. white judge
Suzanne and Giletti coach to the 1993 world championships. Surya skates well: she lands seven triple jumps and a triple combination: she wins silver; Oksana Baiul lands five triple jumps and no combinations: she wins gold. ibid.
1994 world championships: The gold medal went to Yuka Sato. ibid.
‘The system is broken. We need help.’ ibid. expert
I was a victim of racial abuse at the age of 12 when I was attacked on the way home from the swimming pool by a Pakistani gang. I was called a white pig. Tommy Robinson, address Oxford Union 2014, Youtube 1.08.16
I was a target of all the major Pakistani/Muslim gangs in my town [Luton]. ibid.
We want these extremist/radicals banned from our town. ibid.
At what stage do you draw a line? At what stage do you do something? ibid.
I get this guy-wrenching fear that won’t go away. ibid.
I have to look where this hatred is coming from. ibid. Newsnight interview
‘I’m calling you from the 7-Eleven on Burnside. Two people are fighting and they’re beating each other. One is white, one is black.’ A Black & White Killing: The Case that Shook America, BBC 2019, 911 call, BBC 2019
Midnight outside a convenience store in Portland, Oregon. Two men get into a fight. One of them runs off. The other gets into his jeep and runs him down. The young man lying dead on the pavement is black. His name is Larnell Bruce. The man in the jeep is white. His name is Russell Courtier. The killing sent shockwaves across America. Not just because of its brutality but because of the question at its heart: did Russell Courtier kill Larnell Bruce because he is black? ibid.
It’s about decades of racial tension rather than what happened to one young black man. ibid.
He [Russell] was a member of a violent white supremacist gang. ibid.
It started as a fight outside a convenience store in Portland, Oregon, and ended in a killing that shocked America when a young black man Larnell Bruce was mowed down by a jeep. The driver was Russell Courtier, a known member of European Kindred, a white supremacist prison gang. A Black & White Killing: The Case that Shook America II
Larnell was revealed to be more than an innocent victim … ‘in his right hand is a machete.’ ibid. brief