Kids lying on stretchers burnt till they were pink, and the smell of burning flesh will go to my graves. Uprising II: Blame, survivor
She saw somebody in a white car throw something. ibid.
… Then there was another fire bomb at the Moonshot Youth Club … ibid.
The black people’s day of action was the most powerful expression of black political power that this country has ever seen … There were over 20,000 people marching through the streets of London on an ordinary working day. ibid. Linton Kwesi Johnson
There was a police line across the road that was stopping the march. I really don’t think they wanted us to cross the bridge. ibid. witness
A cordon of police officers in riot gear standing across the entrance to the bridge. We found that particularly disturbing because the route to the march had been agreed. ibid. Johnson
‘Kennington was a very racist area, yeah: Niggers Go Home, NF on the Wall’ … ‘Blacks Stink’ [graffiti] … Uprising III: The Front Line
‘Round and round and round antagonising people endlessly.’ ibid. ex-rozzer whistleblower
Operation Swamp: ‘One day I was stopped three times.’ ibid. old suss law victim
‘We saw the police surround a guy who had been stabbed.’ ibid.
When we got to the high street [after victim dragged to police van] it was one of the proudest moments of our lives. Hundreds of us. ibid.
There was like a cinema playing in my mind of all the indignities I had suffered with the police. ibid.
A lot of chaos. A lot of coppers getting hurt. ibid. ex-whistleblower
You know what? They were good fires. They were fires of freedom. People were breaking the chains. ibid. dude
‘The unprecedented outbreak of violence on the streets of mainland Britain.’ ibid. BBC news
Perhaps the most terrifying statistic of all that Soares uncovered was that in Albany County (minority population 13 per cent) more than 95 per cent of imprisoned Drug Laws offenders were black or Hispanic. Whichever way you look at the figure, it can only mean one thing – something is rotten in the state. Misha Glenny, McMafia
SHARP – an acronym that stands for Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice ... In America SHARPS and racist skinheads have clashed many times. American Skinheads, National Geographic 2007
At the beginning of 2021 I started looking into the staggering rise in abuse against black footballers. Before lockdown, racist slurs, boos and even monkey-chants had been increasing in stadiums. Hunting the Football Trolls, Jermaine Jenas reporting, Channel 4 2021
Even if a player does make a statement, prosecutions under the Malicious Communications Act must be brought within six months. It’s a race against time for the police. ibid.
What’s it going to take to make social media companies play their part? ibid.
By the 1920s Greenwood is this incredible prosperous community. People referred to it as Black Wall Street. Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre, woman, History 2021
The worst single incident of racial violence in American history begins: this wall of white people start moving towards Greenwood. They are carrying pistols and shotguns but also carrying cans of gasoline and matches. ibid. dude
They had bombs dropping from the air. ibid. dude #2
Not one of those men what participated in the race riots were ever brought to justice. ibid. dude #3
We just dumped bodies of human beings, of patriots, of veterans, of teachers, of husbands, of wives, of children, in mass graves. ibid. dude #3
It took the entire United States’ army to get me into high school. The American Presidency with Bill Clinton I: Separate But Unequal, victim, History 2022
Go back to the time it [Black & White Minstrel Show] was cancelled, and you hear these two views … The BBC had great difficulty coming to terms with issues of race. David Dimbleby, Days that Shook the BBC III, BBC 2022
Edgar Mittelholzer had come to England in the 1950s from British Guyana. And he had become a best-selling novelist. What Mittelholzer wrote about was violence: the violence and the racism that had been at the heart of the European empires. Mittelholzer believed that it still haunted the minds of those who had ruled the empires … One night Mittelholzer walked up the hill by his house, poured paraffin over himself and set himself alight. He burned to death. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head II: Shooting and Fucking are the Same Thing, BBCiplayer 2021
One evening after making a speech in Reading, Michael X [DeFreitas] was arrested. And he was sent to prison for ten months for inciting racial hatred. The MP Enoch Powell had also made a speech at the same time violently attacking immigrants. He wasn’t charged and he carried on being an MP, which Michael X said rather proved his point about the racism underlying the country. ibid.
Michael X realised that what was happening now in Notting Hill was the opposite: people were being treated as subjects to be counted and measured and managed. He became increasingly cynical about the liberals’ real intentions. Michael X had come to believe that the talk of revolution had just been empty rhetoric that disguised something else. The new groups might look light radicals and dance to black music but really they were the children of the colonialists who had run the empire, and they had no intention of giving up their power. That old system of power was simply mutating, morphing into a new form that camouflaged itself in radicalism but still would manage and control. ibid.
Ron Jeremy was the biggest porn star in the world. He made it into the mainstream. Porn King: The Rise & Fall of Ron Jeremy I, woman, Channel 4 2022
He’s not a legend. The man’s a rapist. ibid.
Jeremy is facing 34 counts of sexual assault. ibid. man
He was just almost like a cartoon character. ibid. woman
The adult business really took off when VHS came around. ibid. man
We absolutely knew he was a groper … He felt entitled. ibid. woman
As far as I know, I was the very first woman in the industry to be raped by Ron in 1983. I wish I had gone to the police. ibid.
I think there’s hundreds of victims out there. Porn King: The Rise & Fall of Ron Jeremy II, woman
Reality TV shows became really big for Ron. ibid.
He was too cheap to pay for dates. ibid. man
You see such a change in Ron. Ron visibly stopped taking care of himself. ibid.
In 2017 police in California and Washington State launch investigations into the allegations. The police investigations are dropped in 2018. ibid. caption
He’s frail and mentally incompetent … I see the signs of dementia. ibid. woman friend
He was trying with all his might to rape me in that bathroom. ibid.
When he was arrested, dozens and dozens of women come forward to the LA Sheriff’s Department. ibid. man
The allegations against Jeremy do get more violent over time. ibid.
When he was 15 an ambulance driver had to get between him and three black children to stop him from throwing rocks and racial slurs. The next day, according to a quote from the Independent, he harassed another group of mostly black children at the beach. These were small kids around 9 or 10 years old. According to this report he even called for other white guys to join in the abuse and rock throwing. He knocked a Vietnamese man unconscious with a five-foot piece of wood. He was charged with civil rights violations in attempted murder … True Crime Recaps: Mark Wahlberg Was Only 15! Youtube 0.59 short, 2023
Kennedy’s speech marked an historic turning point in American history. However, racial hatred continued to haunt America. Kennedy VII: The Brink of War (October 1962 - June 1963), Netflix 2023
Southall, 1976: This was a racist murder [Gurdip Singh Chaggar]. Defiance: Fighting the Far Right I, Channel 4 2024, Balraj, Southall Youth Movement
We knew that the whole of the Asian community up and down the country was under siege, and we knew the police were against us … But we were the protectors of Southall. ibid.
The problem was there was a lot of hatred towards you. ibid. chap
School: There would be racial attacks in class. It was humiliation they wanted. ibid. Balraj
In our hearts there was a kind of anger burning. ibid.
Chaggar murder: I am quite satisfied that neither of you was activated by feelings of racial prejudice. This was basically not a racist killing. ibid. Mr Justice Lawson
Originally, there were five people who were arrested. Two were released and the other three faced a lower manslaughter charge. And they got very lenient sentences. Why were they walking around with a knife … ? ibid. chap
Brick Lane is now the focus of National Front agitation. ibid. news
You are doing this because of survival. Your community is under siege. ibid.