The price of assuming the worst of black kids
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-07-13 12:08.I was saddened as well as appalled by the treatment handed out to your correspondent's son on a 29 bus, merely for showing exceptional courtesy to another.
While the English have always been made up of incomers who have come to terms with the weather and mixed with locals, in my lifetime a welcome improvement has been the much widened range of family backgrounds of Londoners.
It was the offender's father's generation who defended London against the attack of the racist axis of fascism. It is tempting to wonder if he was being pushed off the bus rather than having his back patted, but I fear that this may be wishful thinking.
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