Interesting, very interesting.
There is tremendous "white flight" happening in London and surrounding areas. They are leaving their larger cities in droves. Immigrants and immigration policies are a part of the concerns.
A Muslim girl in France told me it was better in England because they let you wear your burka at certain schools. I told her, that may be true, but from the little I had seen at that time, there seemed to be more tolerance in France. That very week some British football fans came to Paris and made the news due to physically blocking [certain looking] people from getting on the metro and chanting racial slurs about North Africans and Muslims. All captured on video by the way!
I didn't say a word to her. I would assume she saw it as it was all over the news.
For all the trials and tribulations that we experience, most of us understand how racists, open and undercover, view us and how they operate.
I'm specifically referring to black women of African descent, born in America with a generational, historical legacy that traces and connects their family to slavery in America, as the 'we' and the 'us'.
So, we look at these incidents with suspicion squinting our eyes, and give a knowing, but weary regard to the perpetrators.
It's no longer "us" alone on that racially biased hot seat or target. Before, many groups, including people of African descent whose origins are different than ours, have judged and distanced themselves and have elevated themselves above us, are now having that same ugly eye turned toward them.
They are starting to see, feel and experience and realize that things are not what they seemed, especially as it related to the negativity , often fabricated, and sweepingly ascribed to all African Americans.