Everyone knows about the Brexit referendum, don’t they? And how racial attacks in the country have soared ever since the will to leave surpassed the will to remain?
A 15-year-old girl of Asian appearance was with her friends at a branch of KFC in Waltham Forest, when two women threw food at her. They began hurling racial abuse when the girl turned around to confront them, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said. The girl was then assaulted, and police and paramedics showed up to take the girl to hospital, she suffered a broken arm as a result.
Unprovoked and vicious racial attacks are more common than you think. A racial attack on a Syrian refugee schoolboy in Huddersfield made it all over social media, and made national headlines, newspapers, etc. I’m sure many young people that have access to Instagram recognise this incident. This attack was not the first on the boy – he suffered a broken arm by bullies in the same school. The father insisted that the school was not doing anything about this – and they weren’t, because this attack happened over a month ago. In the video, it is blatantly obvious the victim was minding his own business. The same happened to his sister, who had her hijab pulled off her head. What has instilled such derogatory behaviour in children? Teachers of the school did nothing about the situation. There are many racial attacks not just on children, on adults too, that are not caught on camera. These people are suffering in silence, this was just an incident that happened to be caught on camera.
‘’People tend to believe everything they hear these days. Stereotypes are common for people to base a judgement of others they don’t know. That’s what puts the idea in people’s heads. Racial attacks on every single person of colour out there, if they’re Asian, black, eastern European – it’s never ending. Action must be taken and people that commit these attacks must be punished severely. There is enough hate in this world. It isn’t a kind place, but it could do without unnecessary evil.’’ said 43-year-old John, a local of Waltham Forest and my next-door neighbour. I agree with him, the world could use a little less hate, we’re all the same on the inside. There’s absolutely no reason to attack a person based on their skin colour.
