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18 August 2016

Brexit Britain is bringing back the racism my family experienced in the seventies

Widespread racial inequality is revealing, but not surprising. 

By Shazia Awan-Scully

Is today’s report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, citing that widespread inequality is “entrenched” in Britain and risks increasing race tensions even news? 

As an ethnic minority in Britain, I feel different every day. Post-Brexit, there is growing discomfort too. I walk down the street and I wonder if I’ll see somebody being abused, or if this time it’ll  be me. 

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