GRIOTS REPUBLIC - An Urban Black Travel Mag - Jan 2016

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On Familiarity & Otherness An insight into Immigrants and Expats: Black Brits at “Home” and Abroad Written by Jendella Benson
To be Black and British is to have a strange relationship with immigration. Not too long ago we were stoically soldiering on in the face of cries of “go back to where you came from!”,” spat at us by red-faced yobs. But now, in light of recent waves of immigration lapping against the shores of this small, entitled island, our otherness is somewhat more familiar. Our former harassers have fresher targets for their thinlyveiled violent and racist rhetoric. These new immigrants absorb the frustrations of a beleaguered working class, whose communities have been undermined by successive governments, but have instead been sold a convenient scapegoat in the form of immigrants. While faceless mobs scream about immigrants stealing jobs, living off the state, and taking up all the housing, government ministers quietly pass legislation to cut state benefits, sell off affordable housing to the private sector, and increase the amount of low-paid, insecure jobs to add a superficial boost to employment figures. If we’re honest, some of us Black Brits are just glad that the heat is no longer on us and our families. There are those who try to cement the limp embrace offered by White Britain by naively parroting nationalist sentiment to ward off the asylum seekers and migrants. It surprises me how easy it is for some to regurgitate IDENTITY ˌīˈden(t)ədē/ noun the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. “No, where are you from, really?"
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