The legacy of Windrush Four community leaders speak out on how we can honour the Windrush generation in the future by richardsudan
As we mark Windrush 75, experts and voices from our community offer their thoughts on how the Black community can make sure the struggles of the pioneers were not in vain.
Because, we’ve already changed the world. We now need to cement our futures by protecting our culture, as much as celebrating it.Amina Taylor is a journalist and broadcaster. Her mother arrived in the UK in the 1960s, but then returned to Jamaica, where Amina was born in the 1970s before moving to the UK in the 1990s.
“We have that history of colonisation. When I was younger, I didn’t understand why we had a Governor General. I didn’t understand that that was the Queen’s representative in my country.” Hayles first worked in a factory in Birmingham, experiencing hardship in the early days, which would compel him to spend years on the frontlines fighting racial injustice.
“Carrying knives is not new. We had to carry knives to protect ourselves – by any means necessary – because the police would not protect us.” “But you just became part of the norm, you’re absorbed into the norm of society, and now you’re an oversight unless you’ve done something wrong.”
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