Violence is a part of daily life for many children and young people in Britain, because of systems failing to keep them safe.
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The violent racism unfolding in Northern Ireland is shocking, but sadly unsurprising. What is unfolding follows a pattern of collective punishment, fuelled by the far right and enabled by weak political responses.
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On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
Violent racist riots should be treated - and responded to - as a national emergency, not met with gesture politics that denounces racist violence but continues to push policies that enable it, demonising those who are now victims in their own towns and cities.
This - burning people’s homes, livelihoods and belongings in what has been described as “racist pogroms” - is the direct consequence of equating criminality with identity, and the aggressive and sustained dehumanisation of people of colour.
Our thoughts are with the victim of the original knife attack, and those who have since been targeted as a result.
