Reply to "The Windrush scandal"

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caribny posted:
Mr.T posted:
The British MP Chuka Ammuna is a case in point.
I think you mean West African. Yes many of the Nigerians in the UK used to boast that they "sold off all the lazy and stupid people to the whites".
Curious though. Why does it appear as if only West Indians were involved? Why not South Asians who were also migrating to the UK in large numbers during that period?
Yes this Windrush scandal has being going on for quite a while. I suspect that it was Brexit (which made the UK gov't more sensitive about its global image now as it steps away from the EU) that the issue became open. I was reading about this in the Jamaican papers from at least 2011. I also saw BBC programming on it quite a while back.

There were others involved. Here is the breakdown by country on board Empire Windrush.

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