Six weeks ago, residents in Eltham, the suburb where Stephen Lawrence was murdered, discovered racist slurs and far-right symbols all over their streets. 🔴 Locals and MP for the area CliveEfford blame anti-migrant rhetoric over small boat crossings
The result was disquiet and anger this week at crude and repeated attempts to sow division and racial hatred in a community which shoulders an unsought burden of being seen as a barometer ofGraffiti including a stylised version of the initials “NF”, denoting the far-right National Front group, has appeared on fences and street furniture in recent weeks
On Thursday, Ray Gibbon, 64, was walking his dog past the spot where one of the racial slurs had been painted along with a stylised version of letters “NF” – a reference to the far-rightgroup which was at its zenith in the 70s. The telecoms equipment cabinet which had been defaced still smelt of fresh paint – a sign of the determination of the Royal Borough of Greenwich to remove the graffiti wherever it is found, usually within hours of it being reported.
Mr Gibbon, a former youth worker, said: “To be honest, it makes me want to smack whoever it is back into 70s or whichever dinosaur age they come from. After everything that this area has been through and the work that has been done here and everywhere to deal with racism, to find this sort of pondlife spreading poison is really disappointing. This sort of thing never represented this place and it really doesn’t now.
“Whoever is doing this clearly has a problem with that and no one would give them the time of day. But at the same time it angers me because we heard so much rhetoric from politicians against migrants and refugees. I feel it is emboldening those with extreme views. I’m genuinely scared for my son’s safety. It may be a lone person doing this, but they won’t be the only one holding these views.”
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