IN early in June, the cruelty begins. The rumors of a foreign attack on a local woman have resulted in groups passing through a small British town, which breaks windows in homes that belong to “outsiders”. A few days later, police attempted to stop mobrit mobs in another nearby multirairial area. Eventually they passed through, faced stores and burning in a house, while local media reported that the violence developed “a fever”.
Familiar familiar? This is not Ballymena, Fouty Anrim Town on Northern Ireland That sees many nights of distractions where immigrant houses are attacked after reports of an accused sexual assault, with a Roman translator reading it in charges. These incidents occurred over a century ago, in the summer of 1919, while racial violence spread throughout Wales and various Tiger Bay districts.
Previously, many things were blamed for violence, among them a lack of work and home for returning local and black men who served in Merchant Navy and made Wales their house in the first world war. The media also played on their part. The South Wales Daily Daily News claims that it has not been seen “so black blot in a person who is reasonable and developing a city”, before suggesting a tiger bay (now known to be known Baletown).
In ballena, the spark is said to have tried to rape, accompanied by the new influx of immigrants who said “invaded”, “destroyed” and “destroyed” their community. In the 2001 census, only 14,300 people, or 0.8% of the total population of Northern Ireland, belongs to an ethnic group. By 2021, it is 65,600 people, or 3.4%. Fewer numbers compared to England (18%), or Pirbitland (11%), but each of the nations sees similar emission of violence in the race when immigration is in a comparative level.
England also witnessed riots in 1919. There was a violence of North Shields and Liverpool, where a sailor called Charles Wooten after chased by a mob. Liverpool again saw the scenes of Ballymena-ESPO in 1948 when attacked the hostel in a seamen and in 1972 when a distinctive skinny skin of the skin. (Housing is still a flashpoint; last year, at least Eight families in Africa – half of them including nurses – forced to Establish an Estate in Annrim Town.) In the midst of Liverpool incidents there the nottingham race rioters and Notting Hill in London in 1958, followed by Racist Murder in Kelso Cochrane At the capital of Teddy Boys a year ago.
In total 1970s, increases in the far national front, with 12,000 members of its extremity, creates a dangerous environment of England: historian estimated Peter Fryer between 1976 and 1981, 31 people killed by racists In Southall, Brick Lane (both in London), Swindon, Manchester and Leeds. Politicians also regret the issue: In 1978, in a trial of the NF’s exit, Margaret Threpercher claimed an interview that people could fear people with a different culture. “
There’s a much more recent history of violence in England too: Last summer, mobs attacked mosques, housing migrants and the homes of “foreignpool, Manchester and Liverpool after the murder of three children in Southport.
Scotland also has, stopped, rash count. Although Glasgow saw racial riots in 1919, not until 1989 and the killing of Somali student pressed by a boundary border border border border border. Anti-racist activists have been told no problem because no black or brown people in Scotland. In 1991, ethnic minorities cost 1% of the population, but a runnymede tender of trust appears to have a big spikes of racist attacks north of the border because these little communities become more visible.
There is an established pattern of a part of Ballymena a part of: Substance with immigrants, an annoyance in their presence, with a problem with Xenophobia, with a problem Xenophobia, with a problem with Xenophobia, with a spark followed by violence. But many people in Britain do not see this pattern – or choose not to.
The years 1981, 2001 and 2011 seeks memory and what many people think of when they hear the phrase “different from the race” in a British context. Each of the years sees the disturbance of blacks and brown communities triggered with policing (1981), Distant activity (2001) and the Kill Mark Duggan (2011), followed by hands and commentators who wonder where Britain is wrong in the race. The events of 1919, 1948 and 1972 immediately wasted the forgotten past, best footnotes best; They are certainly not fitted with the national story of violence in the race.
These incidents – in white violence – presented with isolation. In Ballymena, it is impossible to understand what is happening without joining the new history of Northern Ireland. The fact that most people attacking immigrants and police are the Protestants whose own families have migrated into Irish generations, but also the colonialism in Britain. But they are also part of a continuance, one who links different eras and parts of the United Kingdom.
This history of violence is an established pattern that cannot be avoided
This is the context that makes Keir Starmer’s “Blushed by strangers” language So offensive. That language is less; It helps to set stage for other inevitable attacks. Less than a month after speech, Ballymena exploded. Now rhetoric is not as an opportunity but dangerous, a shameful decision that is now sitting next to ITHERCHER’s comments NF crushed in the 80s, but now reforms – led to someone whose Herical Hero Enoc Powell – Is Labor pulled on the right.
The next happen in Northern Ireland is important. History shows that in the UK is usually victims of racial violence blamed. After 1919 in Wales, there was a voluntary method of reconciliation, while the authorities were installing a new immigration law, which was a “certificate of nationality and identity of a British Colonial Sorrow”. It is a measure that treats them like criminals.
Immigrants have already begun to leave Ballymena but, like Cardiff, many remain. Their lives can be shaped when political leadership is known to the British history lessons in racial violence.
Lanre Bakare is an internal guardian. He will discuss his new book, There we were thereIn the Southbank Center in London on 11 July
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