Home Office must consider whether to exercise discretion in Windrush cases - Free Movement
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Windrush scandal still a stain on society, Floella Benjamin tells Lords event | Windrush scandal | The Guardian
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Windrush scandal still a stain on society, Floella Benjamin tells Lords event
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It would help if you were off anon, just so people could also reach out to you privately if they were interested 👍🏾 but I’ll leave this here!
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I’m surprised this interview has so few views. Michael meets the midwife who delivered him as a baby. She won a best midwife award and they met through his work on the Pride of Britain awards.
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At the moment, anyone affected by the Windrush Scandal has to fund their own legal representation or wade their own way through complex immigration law.
One suspects the main reason they haven’t been entitled to free representation so far is, plain and simply, racism.
Please sign and share this petition demanding that, like Horizon Post Office Scandal and Infected Blood Scandal survivors, Windrush Scandal survivors should be given free legal representation.
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Haywood Magee. West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria station after their journey from Southampton docks, London 1956
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Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:
I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.
Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we’re not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don’t complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.
Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don’t just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. ‘Roadman’ has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav’) with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug’. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people’s violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road’ means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture’.
But it isn’t all doom and gloom. There’s so much history and culture here in our spaces. I’d be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I’ll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I’ll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.
EDIT: Wow this blew up. If you’re an American or non-British person and you wanna know more I linked some videos that talk about Black Britishness in an easy way, like a Black Britain 101. I have a sideblog for history posts and I have a lot of Black British history stuff on there, mainly post-war if anyone’s interested. Also made this list of Black British music recs x
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So… is anyone else going to mention the Windrush scandal and the current ICE parallels, or is it just me?
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Losing the man of our family was the most profound loss we’ve ever faced.
The grief that followed was heavy , touching each of us deeply, especially my grandmother. She had spent over sixty years by his side, building a life rooted in love, partnership, and shared memories. Their bond was the foundation of our family, and his absence left a silence that echoed through every room of her home.
He passed away in 2019, after over a year of suffering. We gave him a true the Jamaican send off he deserved.
A beautiful church service, a traditional Caribbean burial where we fill the graves ourselves, and a true celebration of his life at his favourite working mens club. We ate, drank and danced in his memory.
We hope we are making you proud papason.
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My grandmother’s photo wall is constantly evolving with us.
A few years ago, during one of these yearly updates, we decided to recreate some of our oldest photos. These photos have shown how much we have changed over the years (or haven’t changed).
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ALTJamaica and the British Empire have a history shaped by colonisation. Under British rule for over 300 years, Jamaica was a key part of the Empire’s plantation economy, built on the backs of enslaved Africans. After emancipation and independence in 1962, the ties remained. When Britain called for workers after the Second World War, Jamaicans answered.
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My grandparents knew each other from their school days, he courted her and proposed to her before moving to England in May 1955.
He settled in Peckham , and eventually moved to Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Once he had found a permanent home and job my grandmother came to join him in September 1956.
They were the first black couple to get married in St Peter’s Parish Church on 3rd March 1957.
Together they had four children, Steve, Pete, Anthea and Dionne. 11 grandchildren; Marcus, Ashley, Issac, Aaron, Matthew, Jack, Dean, Kyle, Luke, Noah and Charlotte. 8 great grandchildren, Misha, Arya, Nahla, Rí, Jada, Teddi, Castiel and Isabella.
They have built a beautiful life in Doncaster and their legacy continues through their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren
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