Continued Government Disrespect And Disconnect Proves There’s Still A Way To Go Yet…
Honouring The Windrush Generation Nationally, Officially, Annually, With Windrush Day Each ‘June 2022’ Since 2018 (The 70th Anniversary) Is A Great Achievement for Baroness Floella Benjamin @baronessfloellabenjamin Rudolph Walker CBE @rudolphwalkerfoundation And The Windrush Committee. This Is Important Black British History. For Everybody.
Similarly, Inclusion of The Black British Community Into The Royal Narrative And Royal Institutions Is Also Important As Highlighted Most Recently By The Royal Megx-It Scandal And The Press Re-action To It And Historically By The New Cross Fire of 1981 And The Lack of Royal Response To It (Compared To A Subsequent Fire In Ireland Shortly Afterwards) And The Subsequent Brixton Riots (Centred Around Police Brutlaity And Harrassment) That Followed Shortly Afterwards.
Efforts By The Royals Powers That Be In This Department Have Not Gone Unnotoiced By TheOrator.Press @theorator.press.on.insta As We’ve Covered A Number of Them. We Hope They Continue.
But As Beverly Knight @beverleyknight Observes (In The Video Below) The British Government’s Treatment of The Windrush Scandal Victims Is “Appalling”. Many Are Still Awaiting Their Compenstation Payments From The Government For Their Mistreatment By The Immigration Department. Clearly There Remains A Significant Way To Go.
Credit To The RAH As It Did Say In Its Promotion of The Event That The Concert Would Be Addressing Some of The Tough Elements of The Windrush Experience, And It Did. Very Well Under The Circmstances.
Meantime The Show Must Go On As They Say And We Look Forward To More Culturally Inclusive Events At The RAH And Windrush Celebrations To Come.
Windrush Events Are Organsied Each Year Around The Whole Country. Including In Birmingham And The Midlands, By:
Windrush Day & Black History Month
Windrush Day Is June 22nd And Includes Various Celebratory Events On The Day Itself And Throughout The Month of June In General. Black History Month UK Is Four Months Later Throughout Every October. In America Black History Month Is Four Months After That, In February.
Some Windrush Pioneers Had To Leave Others Behind Back Home In The Caribbean As Not Everyone Could Afford To Travel And They Could Not Afford To Pay For Everyone Else Or Even Their Own Children At First.
Other Friends, Family And Children Would Follow Later. Sometimes Years Later.
Sadly Some People Simply Got Left Behind Altogether For One Reason or Another.
Some Pioneers Promised And Actually Intendted To Return Home To The Caribbean But Never Did After Working So Hard To Build A New Life In Britain. Life Proved Harder Than They Were Led To Believe. Racism Was An Unforeseen Factor For One Thing.
Plus Many Now Had Families To Raise Having Got Married And Started The Next Generation of British Caribbeans.
Salena Godden’s Poetry Performance Was Particularly Poignant In This Regard.
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