It is becoming a major issue since Farage and the Tories played the race card for Brexit - the spike in racist incidents has scared even the authorities
I spent my life, from the early Civil Rights days to the Anti Apartheid Movement, George Jackson... fighting for justice somewhere else - now it's coming home to roost here
The use of Populism has let the old 'Empire Superiority' Djinn' out of its bottle big time
Racism never really went away but it was considered an institutional problem when the Stephen Laurence murder hit the headlines, now it's back big-time
The extremely rightist Daily Mail published the results of a survey not so long ago on national racism and came up with the astounding figure of a third to a quarter of those interviewed admitting that held and had expressed racist views
Without pre-empting a thread I am hoping to start, the Anti-Semitism of The Israel Governmet defending its atrocities by making criticism of it's policy "antisemitic" has painted a target on the backs of every Jew on the planet
These are dangerous days
Jim