BRITAIN: Black Race Riots! – Black In Time: The 1919 Race Riots

[This is written by a weak liberal. But you'll nevertheless pick up the basic gist of the story and there is a photo too. Blacks have been a problem for long! Jews and Liberals like to frame it as WHITES BEING THE PROBLEM!!! Jan]

The 1919 Race Riots was one of Britain’s most violent periods of racial turmoil in the 20th century, as tensions between white union workers and servicemen against Black, Arab and Chinese ethnic minority communities were exacerbated at seaport areas such as Cardiff, Liverpool, and Glasgow.

Since the end of World War One, the presence of the black communities within Liverpool and London had grown significantly as many ethnic minority communities settled in the UK after the war effort was over. At the same time the UK was entering a period of economic downtrend, labour shortages became common in port areas and white working-class people made a link to the lack of jobs to the increase of ethnic minorities living in the UK. Largely blaming and targeting black people, who they saw as competitors for jobs and the attention of white women, threatening Britain’s post-war national identity.

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Between January and August 1919 riots took place throughout the year. In January 1919, black and white seaman at one dock started jostling each other and soon a fight broke out, with white bystanders joining in, using makeshift weapons, to attack black labourers. In Glasgow, the British Seafarers Union and the National Sailors’ and Fireman’s Union (NSFU) held an anti-immigrant labour meetings, blaming foreigners for undercutting white employment. In Liverpool, white rioters lynched Charles Wootton, a young Afro-Caribbean man. Liverpool’s rioting crowd reach up to 10,000 with 700 ethnic minorities temporarily removed from their homes after seeking out police protection. Black workers were fired, and Black, Arab and Chinese homes and business were set ablaze by white rioters, with the government often not reimbursing any of the victims for property damage. In Salford, black people were also attacked but when they decided to retaliate, police intervened and arrested them. By the end of the riots, five people were killed, many were injured and at least 250 were arrested.

In the aftermath of the riots, the British government made the move to intensify its repatriation scheme, out of fear of a “black backlash” the government starting deporting colonial citizens. Between 1919 and 1921, its estimated that 3000 Black and Arab seamen and their families were removed from Britain under the repatriation scheme. With the government only offering a resettlement allowance of £2 to £5, plus an additional £5 dis-embankment allowance.

Riots continued in 1920 and 1921, while a post-war economic nosedive, sustained racism, the reclassification of black people and Arabs as “aliens” and the 1920 and 1925 immigration mandates made life difficult for Black, Arab and Asian people after the 1919 Race Riots.

Source: https://uwsu.com/news/article/black-in-time-the-1919-race-riots