Racism is one the major social problems in the United State of America (USA)

Racism is one the major social problems in the United State of America (USA). You can read this story here to see how people are still suffering from the racism in the USA.

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British Police face racism scandal again after black man records racist abuse

British police face racism scandal again after black man records racist abuse. The recording, obtained by the Guardian, was made by the 21-year-old after he was stopped in his car, arrested and placed in a police van the day after last summer's protests in the UK. The man, from Beckton, east London, said he was made to feel "like an animal" by police. He has also accused one officer of kneeling on his chest and strangling him.

In the recording, a police officer can be heard admitting he strangled the man because he was "a cunt". Moments later, another officer – identified by investigators as PC Alex MacFarlane – subjects the man to a succession of racist insults and adds: "You'll always have black skin. Don't hide behind your colour."

You can read the story and listen to the recording here.

A panel of experts discusses an increased rate of institutional racism in Britain

A panel of experts discusses in two parts an increased rate of institutional racism in Britain. Watch the videos below.

Racist insults by taxi drivers in London

Read the story here to see how you may experience of having racist insults by taxi drivers in London.



Racist insults by taxi drivers in London

  

Knesset member Haneen Zoubi calls Israel racist

Knesset member Haneen Zoubi calls Israel racist. Watch the video and the interview below.

UK is a racist country?

A British resident discusses here how hurtful it is to live in the UK due to racist insults.

British man was jailed for racist attack

A British motorist who attacked and racially abused another driver during a road rage incident was jailed for six months on Thursday 14 of February 2012. Read the story here.

Racist gang told teenagers: 'You can't wear England shirts because you are brown"

A racist attack started when a group of British boys told three brothers they could not wear England football shirts because their skin was brown, a youth court heard.

The four British boys, all aged 13 and 14, shouted racial abuse and launched an attack that left one of the victims needing hospital treatment. Delia Matthews, prosecuting, said the three brothers, aged 11, 14 and 17, were playing football in the Orchard Park play area at 5.30pm on January 24 in 2012. One of the youths said to one of them: “Why are you wearing an England shirt? You’re brown.”

More racist abuse was shouted before one of the boys launched an attack and a “bundle” took place. The victim suffered a black eye, needing hospital treatment and another was injured in the shoulder. Read more about this racist insult here.

Primary Pupils As Young As Nine Excluded From School For Racist Abuse in Britain

Primary school pupils as young as nine are being excluded from class for racist abuse, an investigation has revealed. The nine-year-old was suspended for half a day for physical attacks, racist jokes and verbal abuse, according to the Surrey Comet. The local Kingston paper conducted an investigation into racist abuse in the area's schools and found 14 children were suspended from school in the last year in the borough alone. Read the full story here.

In 2011, teachers logged more than 10,000 incidents nationally involving primary school students making racist insults during the previous year according to the sources here.

These figures are shocking as they show how much racist insults are common in Britain. Looking at other sources here also reveals racist insults are increasing in the UK.

A black woman banned from publishing a book about her experiences of racism in the Prison Service in Britain

A black woman banned from publishing a book about her experiences of racism in the Prison Service in Britain is taking the Ministry of Justice to a tribunal.



Almost British by Olivea Ebanks

Olivea Ebanks wrote the memoir Almost British following partial victory in a previous racial discrimination employment tribunal against the Prison Service in the UK in 2008. Ebanks is banned from talking about the memoir’s ban or her case because she is a civil servant. Read the whole story here.

European commission was criticised for its racist advert

The video, entitled Growing Together, features three men from ethnic minorities using martial arts skills apparently preparing to fight a white woman.

The ethnic characters include a threatening-looking Chinese man who shouts kung fu slogans, a sword-wielding Indian man and a dreadlocked black man and the woman wears a yellow dress, the color of the stars of the European Union (EU).

The woman stares at the men who are threatening her with marital art moves. She then multiplies herself to form a circle around the men who drop their weapons and sit down. The woman's yellow outfit then turns into the stars of the EU.

The video shows the words "The more we are, the stronger we are," at the end.

The European commission was accused of depicting other cultures in a racist manner and in stereotypes in the video, which was aimed at young audiences.

Institutional Racism and British Parliament

British Parliament is politically elite; you’re more likely to get into Parliament if you’re a white male who attended a private school. Yasmin Begum has documented an article proving clear presence of institutional racism in the Parliament in Britain. You can read the article here.  

"The UK police system is institutionally racist"

Finally, the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were found guilty after a struggle that lasted longer than the time the victim was alive. Lawrence, born in September of 1974, was brutally killed – in a racially-motivated murder – while waiting for a bus in south-east London, in April of 1993. He was just eighteen years old.

He was killed by a gang of young, white, racist men who stabbed him in a wholly unprovoked attack. The last word he heard before dying was “nigger”.

The murder sparked a national outcry; even right-wing newspaper the Daily Mail published a picture of four of the alleged gang, claiming that they were Lawrence’s murderers.  Yasmin Begum has written an article explaining the reasons why "the UK police system is institutionally racist". You can read the article here.  

A common culture of institutional racism in Britain

Institutional racism is that which, covertly or overtly, resides in the policies, procedures, operations and culture of public or private institutions - reinforcing individual prejudices and being reinforced by them in turn. Whereas individual racism is the expression of personal prejudice, institutional racism is the expression of a whole organization’s racist practice and culture.

If racist consequences accrue to institutional laws, customs or practices, that institution is racist whether or not the individuals maintaining those practices have racial intentions.

The word institutional racism was first coined in the UK in the wake of the MacPherson’s report on policing in the UK when Stephen Lawrence’s case was investigating. In MacPherson’s report, institutional racism was defined as the follow: "The collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people."

"Gypsies are the forgotten victims of racism in Britain"

Sophia Vale is an English Gypsy who believes Gypsies are the forgotten victims of racism in Britain. Sophia says she has been refused entry to bars and restaurants in Britain.



Gypsies are the forgotten victims of racism in Britain



You can watch the video here.

A British man who attacked people purely because of their skin colour testifies

Matthew Collins from Britain testifies that he used to be a violent racist who attacked people purely because of their skin colour. Sickened by his involvement in one vicious attack on a group of elderly Asian women in Britain, Matthew turned on his fellow racists and now campaigns against racism.



A British man who attacked people purely because of their skin colour testifies


You can watch the video here.

"Britain is as racist today as it was 20 years ago"

Michael Abatan's brother Jay died in 1999, outside a nightclub, in a racial attack in Britain. No one has ever been prosecuted for Jay's killing and Michael says that Britain is as racist today as it was 20 years ago.



Britain is as racist today as it was 20 years ago



You can watch the video here.

Racism in the UK; 18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder

The article discusses the presence of racism in the UK even today, 18 years since Stephen Lawrence murdered by a racist attack.

Stop Racist Attacks

'A world of casual racism' exposed at British Airways

A senior British Airways pilot reveals the startling levels of casual racism in the flagship UK company, which once famously claimed to be "the world's favourite airline". Captain Doug Maughan, who has 28 years' flying experience, including 15 years with British Airways, says that derogatory remarks about race by his colleagues are so common they are treated as normal. Read the whole story here where a senior BA pilot exposes shocking racist culture of Britain's flag carrier.

Can you excuse casual racism?

Davina Hamilton in her article questions whether ambiguous race-related incidents can ever be ignored.

The rise of British racism may be horribly close

This article discusses how British racism is being involved in daily life in the UK.

Soap giant accused of racism over body wash advert

Soap giant Dove has landed itself in hot water after an advert for one of its products appeared to suggest it can change a user's skin colour. See the advert yourself and read the article here.

Soap giant accused of racism over body wash advert

Bristol traffic warden faces regular racism on street

In the UK, insults and dirty looks can be the daily diet in a busy city like Bristol, where parking is at a premium, but for Clifford Windith the abuse has always had even nastier undertones. The Jamaican has put up with racist name-calling, dog attacks and even been spat at by angry motorists since he joined the council's enforcement team in the UK. You can read the story here.

It is racist to impose limits to immigration

It IS racist to impose limits to immigration. Limits and laws have a history of racism and this campaign is racist. See more photos here.



It IS racist to impose limits to immigration



Pupils and teachers 'show racism'

Racism is still an issue in England's schools, with pupils and teachers showing racist behaviour, research suggests. More than four-fifths (83%) of teachers questioned said they had witnessed racist attitudes or behaviour amongst their students. This included name calling, comments, jokes and stereotyping of different races.

These attitudes were not restricted to pupils, as almost a third of those questioned (31%) said they had seen similar behaviour amongst teachers. In some cases, they used racist terminology, or had lower expectations of ethnic minority pupils. You can read the article here.

These figures are in agreement with other reports that have found a shocking increase in racist attacks in England's schools. See other articles here.

Racist stop and search is on the rise in Britain

Black people are now 30 times more likely than whites to be stopped and searched by police in the UK, according to new analysis. This figure is a dramatic rise—just 12 months earlier it had been 26 times more likely. In 2009 black people were 10.7 times more likely to be searched under the same power. These figures expose the continuing racism within the police in Britain. You can read the article here.

Who’s to blame for racism?

There is a recurring theme in the media’s discussion of racism – that white working class people are more racist than other sections of society. The reality is that racism comes from the top of society and is deliberately propagated by the ruling class. You can read the whole story by Esme Choonara here.



Facing racism in Burnley - Monawar Hussain sees his store daubed with racist graffiti





"Britain is still racist as it was before"

British-born Pakistani Muslim Qurra Tull-Anne Hussain suffered repeated racial abuse while growing up in Scotland. In the aftermath of 9/11 and 7/7, Qurra believes that racism has morphed into Islamophobia and she is now abused for her faith as well as her race. She believes Britain is still racist as it was before.


Britain is still racist as it was before


You can watch the video here.

A Sikh man speaks of his racism ordeal in the United Kingdom (UK)

A brave Sikh man has spoken of his terror ordeal as two British racist thugs smashed up his store in the UK. You can read the story here.

The actor Jay Laga'aia has accused the show called “home and away” of racism

The actor Jay Laga'aia has accused the show called “home and away” of racism in an angry Twitter, saying he was dropped because the series already had a character of ethnic background. You can read the article here.

Chinese Britons Have Put Up With Racism For Too Long

Referring to racist issues in Britain, Elizabeth Chan says: Sadly, the British Chinese are reticent about speaking up for themselves, and simply do not have the numbers to make the same noise the black and south Asian communities do, whose vociferous and galvanising voices have been making waves against racism for decades. Racism is one of those horrendous, soul- and confidence-crushing things that, when faced with, you'd much rather forget or pretend didn't exist. So we tend to brush it off, pretend it never happened, or laugh along with the rest rather than come across as bad sports. You can read her article here.

'Racism built into UK police force'

The British police have killed three people with Taser guns and pepper spray as concerns rise over the police brutality in the United Kingdom. Amnesty International has expressed concerns over the use of Taser guns by the UK police against British citizens. Please watch the interview with Chris Bambery, a political analyst in London here. Chris Bambery is saying 'Racism built into UK police force'.

John Barnes: Racism is society's problem not just football's here in the UK

Former Liverpool and England player John Barnes talks about racism in football on Radio 5.

John Barnes: Racism is society's problem not just football's here in the UK. He added racism is wide-spread here in the UK. You can listen to the interview here.



John Barnes: Racism is wide-spread here in the UK

 

UK’s Racist Stop-And-Search Powers To Be Challenged

The British high court has agreed that a full legal challenge can be brought against a police stop-and-search power alleged to be used in a racist way against African-Caribbean people. You can read the article here. 

UK’s Racist Stop-And-Search Powers

Racist Britain is disgusting, says Kelis after being called 'a slave' at airport

The singer took to Twitter saying she was called a "slave" and "probably a disgusting Nigerian" by a British man in the queue in London.

Kelis: Racist Britain is disgusting

She said that the official checking her passport laughed and referred to her as "Kunta Kinte", the name of a slave in Alex Haley's best-selling book about the slave trade, Roots.

And she branded "the racial issues in the UK" as "disgusting". Read the story here.

A portrait of race in Britain

'All Together Now', is a portrait of race in Britain. In the feature, 10 Britons, all born in 1974 - the same year as the south London student; Stephen Lawrence - describe their experiences of race relations in this country. You can download the file here to read these experiences.

Racist attacks in Britain

Romanians Flee Homes After Racist Attacks in Britain

Gangs of British men have smashed windows and broken the doors of houses occupied by more than 100 Romanians in Belfast, forcing them to flee their homes. Please watch the video.

Unite Against Fascism conference in London on 25/02/2012

The 440 delegates, including trade unionists, students, black and Asian activists and campaigners came from as far afield as Scotland to Conway Hall in London’s Red Lion Square on 25/02/2012. The conference set the fight against fascism in the context of a climate of institutional and public racism.



Hundred crowed into “Unite Against Fascism” on fight against fascism and racism



Campaigners at a Unite Against Fascism conference in London have accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of being the "organ grinder" for the rise in racism due to his economic and social policies.

You can read the full context here.

The reporter calls black football players “coloured” during a report about racism

The reporter calls black football players “coloured” during a report about racism in football on Wednesday 22/02/2012.

The journalist was covering the summit held by David Cameron on racism in football with leading black footballers including John Barnes and Jason Roberts. That is amazing someone, who is reporting about anti-racism, uses such an offensive word himself.

The incident happened after Alan Hansen was forced to apologise for using the same word on Match of the Day.

The pundit, who reportedly earns £40,000 a show, said 'coloured' twice during the BBC1 programme as he talked about racism in the game in December. Read the story here.

Unfortunately, these racist insults are very common in British Television as one of the BBC’s guests on Newsnight was also accused of racist outburst during a televised discussion about the protests in London when he said "the problem is that the whites have become black". Read the story here. You can also see the video here.

Shocking ‎racist incidents rise in Britain

A cursory scan of You Tube reveals scores of racist videos which have taken place in Britain. The country may have come a long way since the 1980s when it was ok to be openly racist but it’s obvious that many people still hold deeply racist attitudes in the UK. Meanwhile, many ordinary people are also concerned about this worrying trend. The following are a few of racist assaults chosen.

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Killing of Indian student in the UK stirs up racism debate

On Monday 26 December, 2011, Anuj Bidve, a 23 year old Indian student from Pune, was shot dead at point blank range, as he walked with friends near their hotel in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. Witnesses reported that the killing was without provocation; apparently, the killer had stopped Anuj and had asked him the time and despite a polite response shot him in the head and ran away. Anuj's father said that the family first got to know of the terrible tragedy, via facebook.

This incident has created racism debate in the UK as it is believed killing was due to racism.

Is Racism Becoming a Growing Problem in English Football?

Recent racist incidents in British football are alarming and shocking. It seems British football is going back to its historical racist period again. Please read the full article here investigating recent racist incidents in English football.

Fatal Realities of "Fortress Europe"

Since 1993, UNITED for Intercultural Action is documenting the deadly results of the building of 'Fortress Europe' and regularly publishes a list of those who die at Europe’s borders or in detention camps awaiting their deportation. More than 15550 dead refugees and migrants have so far been documented by UNITED for Intercultural Action, with the help of a wide range of network organisations. If the death of over 15551 people does not wake up Europe's conscience, what will?

This unique network cooperation shows that these deaths are not just 'isolated incidents' and creates a strong lobby document for use at national and international political level. Unfortunately, in some cases, cause of deaths was due to racist abuses in Europe particularly in the UK.

This list can be downloaded from here. 

A Survey conducted by New Statesman Magazine: UK media has racist attitude

Ethnic minorities are “largely absent” from opinion pages, senior management roles and staff works in the UK press, shows a new survey conducted by New Statesman Magazine, which was published on 11/01/2012.

 

According to the research, no national newspaper and political editors is non-white, indicating that the British media has a problem with racial discrimination.

Inspecting the comment pages of some selected newspapers published between December 5 and 11, the survey found that three newspapers did not even have a single non-white writer on their comment pages, including the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday, the Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph, and the Daily Express/Sunday Express.

“To coincide with a special report on race in the British media for this week's magazine, we have compiled shocking statistics which show ethnic minorities are still largely absent from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs in the media,” said the survey.

The magazine's chief political commentator Rafael Behr, raised the question whether the Westminster lobby could report fairly on issues related to race when they are “almost exclusively white, forty-something men”.

Expressing concerns over the research findings, the New Statesman's senior editor Mehdi Hasan said, “In 2012, 64 years after the arrival of the Empire Windrush on our shores, 36 years after the passage of the third Race Relations Act, 19 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, the great British commentariat is, in effect, a mono-racial, monocultural closed shop.”

 

The survey can be read here. 

The British Prime Minister David Cameron admits UK ‘still has problem with racism’

Trial over the killing of the black teenager has driven the British Prime Minister David Cameron to acknowledge that the country still has a problem with racial prejudice. Interviewing with Sky News's Boulton & Co, Cameron admitted that people from minority ethnic backgrounds still face disadvantage.

Following the conviction of two men for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, who was attacked by a racist gang in south east London in 1993, Cameron said Britain is a "less racist country" than at the time of 18-year-old Stephen's killing, but it still suffers problems with racism.

British politicians are being severely criticized for the widespread racism problem in the UK, following the publication of a report by Britain's Home Office, which shows 51,187 racist cases were reported to the police in England and Wales in 2010-11. Furthermore, the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), which is a British anti-racism charity, has revealed that since the racial murder of Stephen Lawrence 19 years ago, at least 96 people have been killed due to racial violence. 

Meanwhile, a new Mirror investigation has found that complaints of racism against the police forces in England and Wales have increased by nearly a third (32%) in recent four years, from 687 in 2007 to 904 in 2010. 

The full article's references can be seen here and here.

Racism is still real in the UK, but no longer speaking its mind?

National figures show stop and search is still used disproportionately against black people. Unemployment in Seven Sisters is higher than the national and the London average, as are the numbers of people on benefits. Jobless rates for black Britons are higher than for whites, nationally, and a study for the Institute for Public Policy Research showed African-Caribbean youth unemployment growing faster than for other groups.

"They keep stopping innocent people for no reason at all. They still can't tell the difference between one black person and another," Scott said in the interview. The full interview can be read here.

Institutional Racism and the British Police

Read the full article regarding a close relation between Institutional Rasicm and the British Police here.

Even one year-olds under race attack in the UK

In just one area of the UK called Lothians last year police probed 31 reports of hate crime against under-11. Racism has not spared even children as young as one. Figures, in fact, suggest children at such a tender age too have been the victims of racist abuse.

Expressing concern over the figures, experts say "the possibility of psychological damage due to abuse or attacks at such a young age just cannot be ruled out". You can read the full article here.

British teacher sprays insult, and air freshener, on Asian origin children

In yet another case of racial discrimination in the UK, air freshener was sprayed on children of Asian origin, as a teacher insisted they smelled of curry. The teacher was also blamed for asking support staff to spray the children at the 260-pupil primary school in Swansea, south Wales.

You can read the full article here.

Racism is still prevalent in the UK

Racism is still prevalent in the UK with many young people casually expressing discriminatory views, a new report published on 05/01/2012 has revealed. The report by the Trust for London and the Runneymede Trust shows that very little work has been done to prevent racist violence.

You can read the full article here.

Northern Ireland: employers actively discriminating against migrant workers

The Honorary Consul for Poland in Northern Ireland asserted some employers were actively differentiating against migrant workers. You can read the full article here.

Britain is still blighted by racism

Doreen Lawrence, whose 18-year campaign for justice finally saw two racist men jailed for the murder of her son Stephen on Tuesday (10/01/2012), has warned that "Britain is still blighted by racism".

Lawrence said in an interview with the Guardian that "thousands of families" were being denied justice by the police, 18 years after they failed to catch the killers of her son, because of "the colour of my skin". Lawrence said that when she was most in need of help from the police after her son's murder, they failed her because of her race: "All I have kept on saying is that I don't want any special treatment, just to be treated as you would want to be treated. When police dealt with me the colour of my skin made a difference."

You can read the full interview here.

Allegations of racism against the police up by 32% in four years in the UK

A shocking report published in 10/01/2012 found that "complaints of racism against the police have risen by almost a third in four years". During that time, "officers and police staff have been allowed to continue their jobs despite being found racist while they were sending racist emails and making racist jokes". More than half of all the complaints were against London’s Metropolitan Police.

In Cambridge, five officers have faced misconduct hearings for racism, with two being sacked and three being given warnings. Two Community Support Officers on the force were given written warnings for making racist comments.

There have been many unpublished allegations of racism against the police that have not been included in the report. Racist incidents have caused British people and the visitors not to trust the police anymore and this is a warning ring for the governors who have still ears to listen to.  You can read the full article here.

Allegations of rasicm against the police in the UK