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Perhaps most chillingly I have learned that the biggest perpetrator of racism in the UK was not the National Front member on the street, but actually the state.
From elected politicians, to laws (especially immigration laws), to the police force, healthcare and even the education system, the state was the biggest perpetrator and supporter of racism. Not to be outdone, it was followed closely by the media.

One of the reasons I wrote this book was to understand the UK I was born into as a Brown woman, and now I do understand it better. I understand all the things that have happened since the 1980s, which once led me to shake my head and ask, 'How could this happen?' Now I greet them with, 'Yep, makes sense?

‘One of the reasons you’ve probably heard little to nothing about groups such as the Fasimbas and BLF is the media at the time only covered Black Power groups when there were clashes with the police or supposedly violent acts … What gets ignored is one of their main activities of education and community development.’

Reading a library book and I feel like I want to buy my own copy so I can annotate all over it.

Nothing about the state of racism in the UK now is new, and this book is so full of gems about how we got here that I’ve never heard anyone mention before.