I'll take the liberty of sharing another recommendation of an eye-opening documentary (at least for an American, maybe Brits knew all this) that may interest some readers, this one on Amazon Prime from director Steve McQueen. "Uprising" recounts the horrific fire at a "house party" that killed thirteen Black teenagers in South London in a neighborhood of West Indians ("the New Cross fire"), setting the event in historical context and exploring its aftermath. The context was the rise of the basically fascist and openly racist National Front party in Britain, which called not just for an end to immigration but for "repatriation" of all "colored" people! (Seriously: watch the film, this is 1979!) Thatcher pandered to National Front voters while soft-peddling their racism, as the film shows. Was the New Cross Fire a racially motivated attack on a "house party"? The film's treatment of this question is nuanced. But the disgusting level of public racism, by ordinary people and police (including the police official who explained that it was a matter of "opinion" whether use of the N-word by police was derogatory), is breathtaking.
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