- Home
- News & Blogs
- About Us
- What We Do
- Our Communities
- Info Centre
- Press
- Contact
- Archive 2019
- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
- 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India
- Black Church Manifesto Questionnaire
- Brett Bailey: Exhibit B
- Briefing Paper: Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life
- Civil Rights Leader Ratna Lachman dies
- ELLE Magazine: Young, Gifted, and Black
- External Jobs
- FeaturedVideo
- FeaturedVideo
- FeaturedVideo
- Gary Younge Book Sale
- George Osborne's budget increases racial disadvantage
- Goldsmiths Students' Union External Trustee
- International Commissioners condemn the appalling murder of Tyre Nichols
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
- Pathway to Success 2022
- Please donate £10 or more
- Rashan Charles had no Illegal Drugs
- Serena Williams: Black women should demand equal pay
- Thank you for your donation
- The Colour of Power 2021
- The Power of Poetry
- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
- Volunteering roles at Community Alliance Lewisham (CAL)
Race haters turn on each other
It’s not too surprising that the BNP are imploding. After all, when you set up an organisation based on hate, when things don’t go the way you’d like: in the BNP’s case not fooling enough people to believe their race hate lies, they turn on themselves.
Yesterday, their only elected representative the nasty Richard Barnbrook was expelled by the party for trying to oust it’s leader Nick Griffin.
Aside from their rabid dog eat rabid dog mentality, it’s important to remember that the BNP’s demise came about because good people acted. They acted to counter their lies, they acted to encourage people to democratically say no to race hatred, and they acted to challenge and challenge again the legality of the Party’s own racist constitution.
This phase of tackling race hatred may be won, but others such as the English Defence League have emerged, and as before the BNP will attempt to reinvent itself soon.
Sadly, when it comes to hate fuelled organisations we must always remain diligent.
Lastly, I would never encourage the mocking of those that are fighting amongst themselves, but this time…
By Simon Woolley