Police appeal after racist banner hung on Greenwich Blackwall Tunnel approach
Police have launched an investigation after a banner was hung from a footbridge over the A102 in Greenwich on the Blackwall Tunnel approach.
Police were called shortly after 5pm last night (30 November).
No suspects were found on scene. Pictures of the banner have been widely spread on social media.
The banner related to migrants and stated “It’s ok to preserve white nations”.
Anyone with information can call police on 101 and use reference CAD7004/30Nov
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That is terrible. A handful of racist certainly do not speak for me and I am sure they do not speak for the majority of decent local people in the Borough. There is always someone going out with the sole aim of causing trouble somewhere.
Perhaps saying this is ‘racist’ is going a bit far.
Considering it’s members of the far-right promoting ethnonationalism it’s fairly safe to categorise it as racist; anything else would be pure deflection.
Then there’s the timing; considering the day before one of the founders of racist, anti-Semitic neo-Nazi organisation was convicted under the terrorism act.
Considering the U.K is over 80% white ethnic British there’s no existential threat at play. As far as the language used: it’s intended to incite racial hatred; that’s why the police are involved.
100% agree Ballard, well done.
Thank you Ballard and CTD.
Further perspective …
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals
Peoples of colour have been in Britain since the Romans. Whiteness is a construct and easily undermined by the discovery that an ancestor was, say, Chinese. In any event, we are all ‘out of Africa’.