The surface of the United Kingdom may seem like nothing more than a cobble stoned paradise, but beneath the bustling touristy vibe, lays an instilled hatred. This long standing generational view and narrow mindedness proves that the United Kingdom is, and always will be, a racist country. This perspective is supported numerously through the seemingly acceptable social hierarchy of ‘systemic racism’, overlooking police, sneaky politicians, and the continual corruption that is ‘family taught’ hate. Systemic racism has a huge impact on prejudice in the United Kingdom, being that this form of hate is a base and structure within most institutions. This includes schools, which seem to ‘teach’ slavery as a crucial part of the country’s history
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The people who are supposed to protect and speak for the country seem to be the most hypocritical of all. In general, police overlook many things, couple this with the fact that “black people are more disproportionately represented in UK prisons than in the US.”, and you pretty much have a dysfunctional suffer in silence type system. For example, many complaints of harassment (towards the minority), can be seen specifically to a family in Belfast, where two parents and their sons were targeted for some time with their “windows being rapped violently at night… local kids banging on the door… and their son bullied on social media…” and “yet the police up until very recently were not prepared to take action…”. While this is just one case, there are many more with the linking factor being “loyalist working- class redoubts” or ‘loyalist communities’ where most of these incidents occur (in not just Belfast but also England), many foreigners face “exclusion, and alienation.”, which is due to ‘White Brits’ or just people in general believing that other races don’t belong in the United Kingdom. This belief also translates to politics, with a majority of the United Kingdom’s parliament members being white (and many of them known to be racist). A specific public figure under this scrutiny is Oliver Letwin, a member of the conservative party, who is described as someone who has “just stepped out of a time machine from the 1800’s.” And like many other politicians he feigns ‘ignorance’ for his ‘past’ prejudices, but “whether Oliver Letwin is instinctively prejudiced or not, is irrelevant.” He is a man of parliament, shaping the world and should be held accountable for his actions (past, or not) as his thoughts (and any other member of parliaments thoughts) may colour other people’s opinions, leading to why racist views are still so prevalent in the United Kingdom
The people who are supposed to protect and speak for the country seem to be the most hypocritical of all. In general, police overlook many things, couple this with the fact that “black people are more disproportionately represented in UK prisons than in the US.”, and you pretty much have a dysfunctional suffer in silence type system. For example, many complaints of harassment (towards the minority), can be seen specifically to a family in Belfast, where two parents and their sons were targeted for some time with their “windows being rapped violently at night… local kids banging on the door… and their son bullied on social media…” and “yet the police up until very recently were not prepared to take action…”. While this is just one case, there are many more with the linking factor being “loyalist working- class redoubts” or ‘loyalist communities’ where most of these incidents occur (in not just Belfast but also England), many foreigners face “exclusion, and alienation.”, which is due to ‘White Brits’ or just people in general believing that other races don’t belong in the United Kingdom. This belief also translates to politics, with a majority of the United Kingdom’s parliament members being white (and many of them known to be racist). A specific public figure under this scrutiny is Oliver Letwin, a member of the conservative party, who is described as someone who has “just stepped out of a time machine from the 1800’s.” And like many other politicians he feigns ‘ignorance’ for his ‘past’ prejudices, but “whether Oliver Letwin is instinctively prejudiced or not, is irrelevant.” He is a man of parliament, shaping the world and should be held accountable for his actions (past, or not) as his thoughts (and any other member of parliaments thoughts) may colour other people’s opinions, leading to why racist views are still so prevalent in the United Kingdom