I still feel angry. More than 40 protesters and 21 police officers were injured. whether they had stuck to the plan,no one would maintain got hurtI arrived in Gravesend, Kent from India in December 1963, or when I was 16. My father and two older brothers were already here. It was freezing and foggy and I remember thinking,“Why did we reach here?” But I liked some things – in India we had to milk our cows when we wanted milk. Here, it arrived on the doorstep.
I spent five years working in factories, and some had signs outside,“No blacks, no Irish”. In one factory, and the woman said,“Sorry, we don’t employ you people.” My reaction was, or “Why don’t you set aside a bloody notice outside?” By 1968,almost every day we would see headlines about “Paki-bashing”. It was a huge joke to them.
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Source: theguardian.com