Quote Originally Posted by outwoodclaret View Post
I have been looking back at some of the images from the protests. One is of a young man carrying a placard saying “the UK invented racism”. I am sorry for this boy because clearly our educational system has failed him. Failed him and countless others. We can do better. I should be aiming to do better.
One thing we don't put on the curriculum is our despicable colonial, imperialist past.

Huge fortunes were made via asset stripping, slavery and just about every other nefarious activity we could dream up. I'm pretty sure the Greeks and Romans beat us to it on just about every front though outwood?

If these contemporary kids need something to really get excited about it's the Tory attitude towards the Caribbean people brought in to bolster our post-war economy and take up the jobs we did not have the manpower to do ourselves.

One word: WINDRUSH. Now that is a scandal worth getting into a lather about.