How is the Black Lives Matter movement relevant in contemporary Britain? by Monika Staseviciute https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk Made with ♥ en-us 2020-11-10 16:07:03 UTC 2025-05-17 17:33:58 UTC hello@padlet.com w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/932575717 'Moderate and more conservative politicians increasingly campaigned on law and order, often using a ‘colorblind’ rhetoric that evolved into the ‘post-racial’ narrative that is still with us today.'
(van der Berk. and Visser-Maessen, 2019).]]> 2020-11-17 16:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/932575717 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/932610521 Psychologists have found that within the UK, policing must be understood as 'institutionally racist' (Joseph–Salisbury, R., Connelly, L., & Wangari-Jones, P. 2020)  ]]> 2020-11-17 16:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/932610521 Police Brutality UK vs US w1807501 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/952725666 2020-11-23 15:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/952725666 w1807501 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/952751476 Academics suggest there is a difference of policing within the UK and USA, due to the lack of funding that is received, as well as education and training (Manning, 2005). ]]> 2020-11-23 15:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/952751476 w1807308 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/953201940 'As pieces inspired by the violent and untimely death of black men in Britain at the hands of the police, these plays arguably function within documentary practices as memorialisations of black lives, and make distinct contributions by examining the main concerns raised by the cases while adding to the ongoing narrative about police-community relations.' Goddard, L. (2018) ]]> 2020-11-23 17:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/953201940 w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954032566 'I’m not sympathetic to the actual organisation, Black Lives Matter. I think it’s a sort of neo-Marxist organisation that wants to overthrow capitalism and get rid of the police.


“I think the organisation itself is not a force for good.”
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Tory MP Sajid Javid, (2020).

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 Reddie, A.G. (2019). Do black lives matter in post-Brexit Britain?. Studies in Christian ethics, 32(3), 387-401. doi: 10.1177/0953946819843468

Stone, J. (2020). Black Lives Matter is 'not force for good' says Tory MP Sajid Javid. The Independent. Retrieved 15 November 2020, from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sajid-javid-black-live-matter-blm-racism-tory-mp-b806336.html.

van der Berk, J., & Visser-Maessen, L.(2019). Race matters: 1968 as living history in the Black freedom struggle. European journal of American studies,14(1), 1-22. doi:10.4000/ejas.14233 

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]]> 2020-11-23 21:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954062665 w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954278713 'The recent actions of the government in trying to deport Black Caribbean people whose citizenship was held in question due to governmental conspiracy or incompetency was but the sharp end of a continuum of the racialisation of Black bodies that has been centuries in the making'
(Reddie, 2019)

]]> 2020-11-23 23:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954278713 w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954283408 Herald, D.,(1948) MV Empire Windrush arrives as Tilbury Docks]]> 2020-11-23 23:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954283408 'More than 150 politicians had also written to the prime minister calling on him to stop the deportation until a review is published on the lessons learned from the Windrush scandal' 'He served half of a 15-month sentence in 2015 and, now 23, he told Sky News: "It's not like I'm a rapist or a murderer, I've made a mistake when I was 17 and it's now going to affect my whole life."' w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954308759

Campaigners claim victory in bid to stop 50 deportations to Jamaica,2020, Sky News

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Govt 'not sorry' for deporting foreign criminals,2020, in Eight people threatened with Jamaica deportation have cases reviewed.

]]> 2020-11-23 23:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954316870 Operation NEXUS w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954316994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJ3VH5Vp2I]]> 2020-11-23 23:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954316994 w1778060 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954330534 Clayton, J., 2020, 

Deported to Jamaica: 'I was panicking, crying' 

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]]> 2020-11-23 23:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/954330534 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955436632 Many black men get stopped and searched by police, and even unnecesarily restrained. It has been stated that black people are 40 times more times likely to be stopped and searched in the UK (The Guardian,2019) ]]> 2020-11-24 09:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955436632 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955449820 There have been particular cases, where young black men have been killed due to the act of ignornace from the authority. These 2 cases include: Mark Duggan and Rasheen Charles, and both deaths created riots within the area of hackney, attacking police inforcement and creating an ongoing war between gangs and inforcement, for a period of time.]]> 2020-11-24 09:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955449820 https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955469206 There was a case on a young man called Stephen Lawrence who was innocently targeted and killed by a gang of white boys, due to the colour of his skin and it took 18 years for his family to get justice. Stated in the guardian, it reads "the high-profile status of the Lawrence killing-its highlighting of racism, imcompetence and an apparent vein of corruption in the Metropolitan police,and the way the aftermath of the murder radically changed the face of policing, the law and politics-was refelected within minutes of the jury(...)".]]> 2020-11-24 09:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/w1778060/mawzj16hpy0tgmuk/wish/955469206