1/ Was barred this afternoon from World’s End pub in Almer, Dorset. The pub’s day manager told us he had been instructed that no one who had been on the anti-racist protest (which I am proud to have spoken at for Stand Up to Racism #antiracismday ) against the inheritor of slave
2/ wealth Richard Drax MP (who coincidentally owns great chunks of Dorset) was allowed in as we cost them business. We said we hadn’t and in fact we were offering business. They said they’d been told demo might be trouble and hired security and that put off regulars.
3/ A bit surreal. “We’re only following orders. Just leave”. I told them it reminded me, as a black man, of pubs that officially or unofficially didn’t let me in when I was younger. Back then I didn’t care much if it was the local staff who decided or if it was brewery policy.
B4 pub incident great Dorset Stand Up to Racism #up_dorset Time’s Up, Mr Drax demo on slavery reparations, speakers inc Henni Nicolet (Dorset SUTR), Ken Olende (SUTR), Frances O’Grady (Sec Gen TUC), Grafton Straker (Unite Dorset), Cleo Lake (frmr Gn Ld Myr Bristol) #antiracismday 
Pretty good article in the Observer on what the Dorset Stand Up to Racism #up_dorset /Tolpuddle Festival demo was actually about. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
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