Brixton Uprising 1981
do “Black Peoples Day” para o “The Day the Blacks Ran Riot”
Após a II GM, a chamada Windrush Generation [composta por negros da West Índia britânica], desembarcou no Reino Unido, para horror de grande parte da população branca. Os filhos desta geração revoltaram-se contra a passividade dos pais e a falta de oportunidades, sobretudo no emprego. Em 1981, um incêndio intencional de uma casa onde se comemorava um aniversário, resultou na morte de 13 adolescentes negros.
After the deaths of 13 young black people in a fire in New Cross which to this day remains unsolved theblakc community was outraged by the indifferenet reaction form the police and the government. In March of that year a march of 15,000 titled Black Peoples Day of action took place between New Cross and Central London. Despite provocation from the police the demonstration was peaceful although the Sun headline the next day stated “The Day the Blacks Ran Riot”. Later that year the police launched Operation Swamp where a thousand young black men were stopped and searched in a three day period in the Brixton area.. Evidence planting, beatings on the street and in the cells were common and racial abuse a daily occurence …
