Brixton Uprising 1981

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 ...
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• brixton
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• institutional racism
• police brutality
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• new cross fire
• massacre
• mavis best
• sybil phoenix
• alex wheatle
• 1981
• scarman
• blacker dread
• brian paddick
• civil disobedience

[dennatrol81]

Have you got the second part of this documentary? V.good and interesting

[blackhistorywalks]

Its an hour long altogther will put the rest of it up soon

[daniel27121993]

Fuck babylon

[TheQueenl92]

@Ellina1980 YES YOU ARE RIGHT!!! THIS THUG GANGSTA LIFE IS NOT CUTTING IT!

[Ellina1980]

We need another Martin Luther King. We need to redefine what it means to be black, because it's all way to negative and I don't know if it's black people or if it's the media portraying them in this way. Maybe it's a mixture of anger, lies and confusion on both parts. Time to bring some LOVE into the equation....

[truthhitmanisback]

R.I.P Mark Duggan

[nubic]

@DukeofWellington91 Dont make me laugh!!!!!!!!! De-Colonisation, are you stupid? When did this take place? Your still in the congo, sth Africa etc, mugabe had to kick you out of Zim and your still trying to get back in. So your assumption is a LIE at best. And for the record i did not say that whites were responsible for all the wrongs in the world. However history shows that wherever they go they leave a BLOOD trail even today. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ALONE.

[DukeofWellington91]

@nubic Yeah because all of the slavery, genocide, rape, civil war and totalitarian governments that exist in Africa are because of White people. 40-50 years since the de-colonisation of Africa and Africa still hasn't managed to sort out its mess, not everything wrong with the world is because of something that Whites did before the majority of people were even born.

[DukeofWellington91]

@MedievalBeings Maybe the Black kids don't make the grades?

[housecarl100]

@MedievalBeings blacks the  criminal class all over the World must be genetics , you never made it our of the stone age , stop blaming everyone else you are garbage . It was not and uprising just a riot with looting and rape so so African .....multiculturalism stuff it!

[MsFeege]

I was there - lived in Brockley and as a white mother of a black son was horrified by so many things that happened. To finally see the police admitting their behaviour is in some way a relief and in another just utterly shocking. How so many black people have done so well in such a climate is the truly amazing thing - a triumph.