We thought it was too huge a story not to maximise as a rich project that the children could learn from.”They have also heard the stories of more recent arrivals – one man told them how he fled Iraq locked in the boot of a car. Unless something changes, before long there just won’t be enough white voters in the electorate for the Conservative party to be able to win.”“These children will go off to secondary schools, know what racism is, understand the reasons people migrate and ask challenging questions,” Jones says. How could we ignore that?”“Until two years ago I felt positive that the legacy of Enoch Powell’s poisonous and pessimistic rhetoric had been buried. Among younger people from ethnic minorities, about half think things were worse back then. Among ethnic minorities, two-thirds (66%) of over-65s and 73% of 55-64s feel that racial prejudice was worse 50 years ago. Gradually, I sensed, race relations improved – at least in the more cosmopolitan big cities.Yet half a century on from Powell’s polemic, the school he pitched into a media firestorm has refused to shy away from its association with him. There is a strong expectation among younger voters that there is further to go in dealing with racial prejudice. Pupils heard how, on the very first day its gates opened, children faced racial abuse from students at the neighbouring grammar school. Most people (56%) said the group face “a lot” of prejudice and a further third (32%) said they face a little.
“Where he predicted ‘rivers of blood’, people of different colours and creeds have mixed and learned to live together.
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They’ve listened to harrowing stories and some have harrowing stories of their own. By the next general election it is projected that there will be more than 120 such seats. The unwelcome attention intensified when Powell delivered his notorious Birmingham address, prophesying doom as he warned that the country had gone “literally mad” in its embrace of mass migration.“Enoch Powell was wrong about Britain,” says Sunder Katwala, British Future’s director. All groups agreed that “children mixing at school with kids from other ethnic/religious backgrounds” has made the most significant difference to race relations. The headmistress was confronted in the library by a group of parents claiming that the white children were suffering because teachers were having to concentrate on teaching English to the arrivals. However, a third of black and minority ethnic (BAME) respondents said they had experienced racism in the street.
In the aftermath of Enoch Powell’s inflammatory 1968 “rivers of blood” speech, which split the nation and instantly became one of modern British … “There was an ugly climate of racism and rejection which lingered for years afterwards.
The local community was up in arms.
“In 2017, for the second election running, the Tories lost ground among non-white voters while increasing its support in the country as a whole.There is also concern that Britain’s Muslim citizens are the ones now facing the most prejudice. A former pupil came in to talk about the day that the first black family moved into her street – something she treated with fear, she explained, because she had been brought up to mistrust immigrants.A majority (59%) think race relations have improved, saying that there was more prejudice in 1968.
We have largely moved on from the racism of the 60s and 70s, and young Britons have higher expectations of our society. Half a century on from the storm whipped up by Powell, his legacy has been used to help ease the tensions he sought to inflame.Newspapers began trying to speak to parents, staff and children. Teachers have not airbrushed out the ugliness the school faced. In the run-up to his speech, Powell made one of his most controversial claims – that a constituent had told him that his child was the only white pupil in their class.