I was in a bar last night and heard the following statement made 'I was in town today and the place was swarming with them, acting like gangsters swaggering around with their baseball caps on backwards. Send them home'. The 'them' referred to were black and Asian kids.
The speaker knew nothing of the background of these people and was basing his opinion purely on the colour of their skin. It was all said so casually and others present were agreeing so readily that it is clear to me that racism is alive and well.
I know I should have said something but I'm a coward and didn't speak up and am thoroughly ashamed of myself.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8601069-First_They_Came_For_The_Communists-by-Martin_Niemoller
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