Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #ukprotests
Most recents (3)
To all those saying that slavery happened a long time ago, that it didn't benefit them directly, and that they not racists so why should they care - THIS is why you should care. #thread #slavery #blacklivesmatter #ukprotests #bristolstatue #RhodesMustFall 1/4 
You may think that you don't personally benefit from slavery, but you almost certainly do. Many of you may be surprised to find your ancestors + people with your name in this database - like Thomas J. Cheeseman a British slave over. Check it out here: 2/4 ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/de…
Even if you don't find your own name in the database, you live in a county whose infrastructure and economy benefitted massively from slavery and other immoral acts, and those benefits created advantages - in education, business, healthcare - enjoyed by subsequent generations 3/4
1/4 Johnson not only tries to create false parity between "people" who are peaceful and violent, but goes further to suggest that violence defined the protests. To say they have been 'subverted by thuggery' is to disingenuously tar everyone with the same brush. It is ludicrous to
2/4 suggest some violence betrayed the mass mobilisation of ppl fighting against systemic racialised violence. But this is all PR designed to get a press soundbite and discredit the movement, to rally antagonism to those fighting social in justice. Imagine having a PM who wanted
3/4 to actually understand the issues at play here; the systemic violence that results in such public expressions of grief and solidarity. Instead our PM pompously declares that those responsible will be held to account, a week after doing everything possible to hide his friend
#mineapolisriots
1/Last night a Police station was taken over by protesters and demolished. The Police had to flee
1/Last night a Police station was taken over by protesters and demolished. The Police had to flee
