I was heartened by the good residents of Brighton for running off the racist right wing demonstrators in their city recently. It was not only the right thing to do, it was a kind thing to do. It was a kindness to all the people of Britain who are not Caucasian white.
It was a hand hold, a hug, a nod and reminder to those frightened and often disadvantaged right wing supporters that not everyone think that they are right
During the First World War some 4,500 Belgium refugees were given sanctuary in North East Wales. And even Trelawnyd billeted families at the Village Hall. Not bad for a predominately isolated Welsh village.
I was only thinking about this yesterday when I drove up to the village, and just before entering Trelawnyd I noticed a small holding on the right which sported a flag at its gate.
The Palestinian Flag
Kindness. That's all that is needed. Why some people find that so difficult, I'll never understand. xx
ReplyDeleteI’ve had to read about the backstory of protests in Ireland which sound like fuelled hate from the Deep South here
DeleteLet’s all stand up to negativity
Lee
My lowest number of comments ……worrying
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DeleteWell I will give you a resounding ' here, here' ( hear, hear??), Love and support and humanity winning over xx
ReplyDeleteAmen xx
DeleteKindness is a two way street. We rarely hear of prominent people of colour or Muslim calling out the crimes of their community. Even sentencing is different.
ReplyDeleteHere in Canada we have the Gladue Law which has caused problems in sentencing due to turning it into a First Nations v. the rest of country when it comes to sentencing.
I worry about the gay community when intolerant religions gain power.
Again it falls back to hate the sin, not the sinner and recent crimes seem to protect sinners
We need the momentum of acceptance to prevail
DeleteI know what you mean about people not calling out the crimes of their community. I honestly cannot remember an Archbishop of Canterbury calling out the crimes of Anglicans!
DeleteThe new archbishop is a tonic
DeleteI agree
DeleteIt was heartening to read of the counter-protest. It was also heartening to read of the vast difference in numbers between the racist right-wing agitators and the counter protestors. An estimated 300 racist right-wing agitators and 4000 counter protestors.
ReplyDeleteKindness won the day!!!
Nicely put
Deletethe counter protestors are paid for by Soros, they also bus them in from other areas, that explains the numbers
DeleteNonsense.
DeleteStuff and nonsense re Soros. As for “they” bussing them in…how on earth is this mythical “they”.
DeleteSome people. Need these lies
DeleteIt’s nearly 11 p.m. and this only just appeared in my feed or I would have immediately commented.
ReplyDeleteThis gives me hope. Maybe we’re not doomed. There is still goodness in this world.
Hugs
DeleteI even love the man shouting fuck u
DeleteSometimes "Fuck U" is warranted.
DeleteFucking yes x
DeleteKindness and courtesy are free and make all the difference in the world!
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Amen
DeleteToday a friend and I drove thru a small, old fashioned fishing town--and I was excited and thrilled to see rainbow banners draped across the streets advertising their ''maritime pride festival".
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ReplyDeleteMary from PA,USA
More of this please!
ReplyDeleteI'm perplexed that in the UK the discrimination laws that are so well established in the workplace are not applied to the rest of the spaces.
Ignorance introduces this concept where freedom of speech equals no consequences because you're in a public space. Also how are face coverings not an automatic arrest? But it's mad how we're going back towards fascism. Anyway. Someone suggested I read Orwell's 1984. Tip Toe is also bloody brilliant and touches closely on what we seen in this video.
Ovi
Very timely tiptoe was
DeleteI don't know what it is about, John. I want more peace and less hate everywhere. "All we need is love."
ReplyDeleteThe good people are often less vociferous
DeleteLinked with this, I was also heartened by the massive anti-racist demonstration in Belfast on Saturday. A loud and proud response to the masked racist thugs who were out on the streets of Northern Ireland's biggest city last week.
ReplyDeleteDiddint Sheffield have one too
DeleteGood to know that SOMEWHERE in the world people are standing up to this pond scum. (Unlike here in the good ole USofA where we seem to breeding them at record numbers.)
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DeleteI second what Marty said!
ReplyDeleteI third it
DeleteGood for them! White nationalist racist thugs are showing out all over the world and they must be shown just how small and outnumbered they are.
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DeleteThe good folk of Brighton are very liberal and welcoming, we have an amazing cultural mix. It never fails to amaze me the different languages I hear in the street. I expect the extreme right wing bunch were still upset about that man being blinded and almost decapitated in the street, but the assailant was already in prison.
ReplyDeleteGetting upset about a deaf and disabled man being stabbed in the eyes, and his live attempted decapitation on their streets? How very dare they!
DeleteYes, I am “upset” by the attempted murder of Stephen Olgivie by Alodid. That is quite different from rioting, targeting home of people who are “foreign” and burning houses down. There are people who are too frightened to send their kids to school!
DeleteMe too traveller I was appalled
DeleteI don't think that happened in Brighton.
DeleteAll four of my grandparents were refugees. Their stories (and their siblings' stories) are similar to refugees today - they had to leave everything, children dying on their way to the safety, living in a place no-one wanted you to be... I can't, I CAN NOT deny safety to anyone.
ReplyDeleteMy great grandparents were Irish
DeleteGlasgow stood up for kindness too.
ReplyDeleteThe place that coined the word Refuweegee....Weegee=Glaswegian.
There is so much misinformation spread by the few about every minority
They did indeed , with rather more swearing I suggest
DeleteCompassion for the rest of the human race should have no creed or colour. But currently politicians and activists are stoking fear and repression to meet their own abhorrent agendas, none of which is being treated seriously enough because the silent majority do not want to get involved in inflammatory issues and risk their own safety when faced with thuggery and intolerance. A downward spiral. So it is to be much applauded that Brighton residents have been striking back in the name of common humanity and a proper tolerance of others however unlike themselves.
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DeleteI hadn't seen this video before or heard about this encounter, so thanks for that. I couldn't tell who were the right-wing demonstrators and who were the "normal" people, but it's great to see resistance to poisonous hatred.
ReplyDeleteI suspect many of the right-wingers wouldn't oppose hosting Belgian refugees once again -- but Somalis and Afghans and Syrians and Palestinians are another matter.
It really is all about race, in other words.
DeleteYup!
DeleteIf you can believe it, I read this comment on a blog
Delete“Unfortunately for society the coloured population are less intelligent than their white, yellow and brown.”
Rather than deleting the comment the blogger replied
“ I would never dare say that myself”. Hardly liberal and welcoming.
My happiest days at work was working alongside African, Filipino , Indian , Jamaican , Irish, Yorkshire Greek, Spanish and one Scottish nurse in Sheffield
DeleteAnne Frank said: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart." Even so many decades later, there's so much that girl could teach us all - Bel Ami
ReplyDeleteNicely put my old friend
DeleteIf only we could all just get on and tolerate and welcome differences. Diversity enriches lives. We just need more love and understanding. Brighton is a very understanding and tolerant city. My youngest son lives there and can vouch for that. I hope you are feeling well John? Regards Sue H
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DeleteI have not been shown any intolerance. Is it because I am white? Absolutely! Looks seem to be everything to the unwelcoming bastards with the loud mouths and nasty words. When we see people being rude to others we need to take a stand and help send the bullies back to the holes they crawled out of.
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DeleteKindness is everything. If you can't be kind what's the bloody point. Be Mrs Do-as-you-would-be-done-by. Can't remember what book she was in - Water Babies? The only hyphenated name worth having.
ReplyDeleteWe should all take a deep breath and think
DeleteMany on the far right just react
An interesting, and depressing, read
ReplyDeletehttps://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/ten-years-after-my-wife-jo-cox-was-murdered-i-believe-our-country-is-in-peril?utm_campaign=593091_TheObserverDaily_260617&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&UID=&dm_i=7EQK,CPMR,37ZMAC,1QIPD,1,0,0,0
Thank u
DeleteI didn't go to the Brighton protest although I was tempted and knew a lot of people who did. I guess you would see me as a right winger but I don't myself as such. But the protest was not about colour, it was about the number of illegal immigrants entering the UK, throwing away their passport and claiming asylum, whilst being processed they are free to come and go in their hotel, army barrack or hmo accommodation, yet we know nothing about them, whether they have a criminal record in another country etc. One of the speakers was a mother who had recently lost her daughter to such a person who stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver, that mother was heckled by 'left' and frightened and bullied. Everyone on the 'right' wants asylum seekers to be detained until we know who they are, also many abscond into the night and the black economy if their applications are declined. I could go on but better not but it is not about race, colour, creed, it's about keeping us lot safe.
ReplyDeleteLegitimate worry about illegal immigration is one thing , race hatred is another and one seems to be morphing into the other
DeleteI agree with you. As someone who has spent the vast majority of my life as an immigrant, albeit legal, I find some of the discussion about immigrants very uncomfortable….then we get to the discussion of “English values” - some of the comments from Farage are appalling and then there are those who don’t think he is “tough enough on immigration” and favour Rupert Lowe…and what exactly is “woke ideology”!
DeleteSorry John have started a rant.
People should read Sajid Javid’s autobiography to get a good idea of racism in this country…and, unfortunately, it is coming back.
Nicely put my friend
DeleteI'm glad the Irish rose up against the race rioters too. This was lovely to see, here. How people inspire me! -Kate
ReplyDeleteMe too
DeleteRemember Jo Cox
ReplyDelete"We have more in common than that which divides us"
Amen
DeleteOur town is massively inclusive. I'm proud to see shop windows here decorated to celebrate Pride xx
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