Ben Brooks 🇬🇧

Yesterday I wrote that there is no such thing as #TwoTierPolicing in the UK. I was subjected to thousands of abusive responses and threats — but it's true. Today may be worse — anti-white racism. Anyone using this term in the UK today should be ashamed of themselves. It is nothing but a racist dog whistle, and not a subtle one. Another barely coded trope being liberally dished out by Reform UK — Farage, Jenrick and Yusuf have all used the term this week. Growing up in Scotland, we learned very little about global history — a lot about Wallace, the Bruce and Bannockburn — but it wasn't until I moved down to England at the age of ten and into middle school, that I became fully aware of the historical horrors of racism. Apartheid. Slavery. Colonialism. White Supremacy. Nazism. Segregation. These historical events did not involve white people being persecuted, murdered because of the colour of their skin. So for today's neo-racists and far-right parties to start claiming prejudice because they are white, is both grossly historically inappropriate and, as Farage knows only too well, reigniting genuine racism within the disenfranchised white population of the UK. An education issue. A poverty issue. A systemic degradation of our working classes issue. A critical thinking issue. Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe know this, and they are highly skilled at weaponising it. They could not care less for those foot soldiers sent out to do their bidding. Ruprecht and Nigel want power at all costs. The vast majority of British people are not racist, far from it. But those being sucked into the Reform/Restore machine are being made to act this way; some without even realising what they are saying. Why does this touch me so deeply? Because I can still remember history lessons at school, and I can genuinely still feel the sense of despair I felt on learning the true evils of racism. That may sound hyperbolic, but it's true. Cut to thirteen-year-old Don cycling his paper round, listening to Public Enemy on his Walkman. Chuck D going much further than my history lessons and only further enraging my sense of the unjust. Today I have a platform, small thought it may be and, if I can make any sort of difference with some of the lessons I learned, then I'll be happy. Have a fantastic Friday.✌️

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