Immigrants like Edward Enninful and I will never be ‘British’ enough ✍️ The unceasing anxieties about who is 'really' British is becoming a wellspring of hatred 🔵 y_alibhai for ipaperviews
The wellspring of this hatred is Britishness, those unceasing anxieties about who is truly British. For Nigel Farage, Britain First, chauvinistic intellectuals, parts of the Tory party and some in the Labour Party and unions, Britishness is white.
A lorry driver recently shouted at me: “This isn’t a racist country you black bitch. Get out of here.” And last week, in Boots, when an assistant was helping me, a white man ranted; “Why her? I’m British, I have the right to be served. This is bollocks.” These are everyday incidents of the pervasive prejudices that tell us we will always be second-class citizens.
As ever, the data was used by right-wing politicians and the media to stoke fears of a “demographic crisis”.John Burn-Murdoch responded brilliantly to such info manipulations by nationalists: “Farage and Co must have been looking only at those who identify as both British and white. But if identifying as British is the key, why count only white Britons? We have data on the share of people in each region that have a British identity.
But fewer than one in a thousand neighbourhoods in Britain is identifiably insulated from mainstream culture. The vast majority of Black and Asian citizens are totally integrated. We marry native sons and daughters, are culturally open and part of this nation’s evolving, multifarious story.
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