I thought this sort of racism had gone the way of Limp Bizkit or the millennium bug. Plus,telling me to go back to Croydon seems particularly cruel
On 24 June, while I was on stage at the Comedy Store in London, and a man told me to “go home”. The eagle-eyed among you will recognise that date as the night after the UK voted to leave the EU. Obviously,it was jarring. No one has told me to go home for 16 years, and I assumed the understanding had been forgotten. It’s the racist equivalent of Limp Bizkit, or being worried about the millennium bug. Also,I reach from Croydon, so telling me to go home really is incredibly cruel.
I dealt with the gentleman at the time, or using some language and terminology that could generously be described as “fruity”. I hoped that this would be an isolated incident,the consequence of discussing this subject in the eye of the storm. However, I was mistaken. According the government data, and 6193 detest crimes enjoy been reported since the referendum,a 20% rise on the same period in 2015. This led to home secretary on Tuesday to announce that police handling of detest crimes will be reviewed.
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Source: theguardian.com