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Dr Masimba Mavaza
The world media has gone crazy with the “dogs” which were let out by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan.
This time around, the “dogs” let out were vicious, they err on the side of racism.
Racism is rife in many UK institutions only that it’s so hidden and well packaged.
Prince William came out guns blazing arguing that the royal family is a non-racial institution.
The news is very damaging, but what’s the difference? We have been colonised at Her Majesty’s pleasure and millions of Africans have been killed at the pleasure of the Queen.
The point Prince William is bringing out is that the modern royal family is not racist. History has always told us that the Queen has black blood in her.
Some time ago, a video of Chelsea football fans preventing a blackman from boarding the Paris Métro chanting, “We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it,” went public.
This was one of the unconcealed show of racism, but many incidents are subtle, going unnoticed, with only a few making it to the press.
Racism is rampant, to be specific institutional racism, which is far damaging.
Institutional racism has severely affected minority communities in various areas which include schools, work places, representation in Government and treatment by law enforcement agents.
Blacks, especially immigrants, are treated badly.
John Tagara overstayed his visa and was detained in the UK.
While he awaited deportation, he got treatment worse than a pig.
Racist immigration officials did not mince their words; he was informed that he was no human being and thus had no human rights to enjoy.
He was chained and dragged to the plane like a criminal.
John was brutalised to the extent that when he got on to the plane, he had bruised ribs. Sadly, no one is fighting in the ‘black corner’.
No one lifts a finger for black immigrants who are arrested and detained.
The British immigration laws are so draconian one wonders why the Britons have not been dragged to The Hague for human rights abuses.
An immigrant with no proper papers is not allowed to work, not allowed to have a bank account and not allowed to have a driver’s licence.
A black person with no proper papers is not allowed to have a decent house. In short, he is not allowed to have a life.
Black males, it appears, are the most affected.
And to worsen the situation, the press is conditioned to demonise black people, presenting them as out to get ‘white’ jobs.
The anger and hatred against blacks in the streets is heightened by the press.
And the press is fed the hatred by the politicians.
Men and women of colour are being abused on a daily basis at levels way different from immigrants from other countries such as Europe or the US.
In a show of disrespect, Tafadzwa Mahiya was arrested on her wedding day and thrown on the plane in her wedding gown.
She would not have been arrested in her gown if she was an illegal immigrant from Russia or the US.
Sometimes police just target blacks in traffic incidences, the black party is always guilty until proven innocent.
You are likely going to be stopped for a routine check if you are black than if you are white.
Killings are statistically rare, but one of the most polarising police tactics is stop-and-search procedure.
Statistics show that black people in London are now 12 times more likely to be randomly stopped and searched by police.
“The police power to stop and search has a disproportionate impact on black and minority ethnic communities and young people,” explains Natasha Dhumma, youth co-ordinator at Stop Watch, an NGO campaigning for greater police accountability.
“Stop searches are all too often conducted without reasonable grounds based on accurate and reliable intelligence. The absence of these creates deep mistrust and resentment in communities and is an ineffective use of police resources.”
In court, African lawyers are told that they have a bad accent, while Asians are understood.
Judges address white lawyers cordially and are at most cold against blacks.
Institutional racism is as old as the British Empire.
It is sickening when you fill an employment form which asks you if you are:
Black or Black British
Black African
Black Other.
This is how you are looked at.
A study carried out comparing the SATS results of 11-year-olds, with their teacher assessments, revealed the bigotry in the UK.
The study was carried out on the results of every state school in the UK and was published in 2007.
SATS results are blind-marked, meaning the examiner does not know the racial identity of the student, whereas teacher assessments are not.
The study found that, overwhelmingly, black students do far better in their SATS results than their teacher assessments.
Conversely, white students did better in their teacher assessments, than in their SATS results.
What is horrible about institutional racism is that it has dictated the life outcomes, educational achievements and career prospects of blacks.
The UK strips people of their status.
The Brits are trained to give you a fake smile and bribe you with lies.
Diaspora now waits to see how Harry will be called. Harry is a man who ran away from his country in fear for his life. He has sought a secure protected life in the US.
The question is: Will Harry be called an asylum seeker?
The difference in the names given to people in the same category speaks volumes on the issue of equality.
Racism makes one angry and it’s only when you are out of your country that you will begin to understand the term racism.
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioural traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.
It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity.
Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples.
These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities.
Racism is when someone treats another person differently because their skin colour is not the same as theirs, they speak a different language or have different religious beliefs.
As the royal family withdraws back into their privacy to deal with the racism issue, we only hope they will come up with a statement of hope to the humiliated black folks. [email protected]
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