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Though it was a play where people use wands to cast spells, certain people couldn’t manage to see Hermione, written in the books as having brown eyes and frizzy hair, as anything but a white woman. Anger, tension and outright abuse boiled over online as a counter-petition to support the event was organised. An employment tribunal heard that John Brelsford was sacked after being accused of bullying and “humiliating” pupils, the Sheffield Star reported. Some anti-racist activists have spent the last year explaining that racism isn’t simply prejudice based on how one looks, but a system, much like capitalism, communism, and socialism, put in place by those in power around a specific set of ideas – in this case, racist ones. of the population is black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, there is a sense among some locals that racism doesn’t exist in the district.

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He was reported to the police, “but it seems there is little they can do unless he actually came knocking on my door”, says Gueye. And although “attitudes have progressed”, cases of “ginger-bullying and exclusion” are still common. That case has been made often, most recently by Nelson Jones in the New Statesman, who in a blog post last week detailed a depressing litany of murders, assaults and suicides that have been linked to anti-redhaired prejudice. Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features ‘Their feelings are that Ariel isn’t just meant to have red hair, she’s meant to be the sort of person who tends to have naturally red hair – a white person.

But “unfortunately, there is a long history of making fun of people with ginger hair in the UK”, said Great British Mag, a site for international students. Rights campaigner Meleady spoke out after a teaching assistant at a Sheffield primary school lost an unfair dismissal claim last week. Later, she would make Eldridge-Tull gasp by posting: “He couldn’t breathe, now we can’t speak”, in a reference to Floyd’s murder by a police officer. After finally breaking free of the shackling language of "cripples" and "invalids" and securing the legal rights to access work and social participation, disabled people now face a twin-pronged, co-ordinated attack from politicians and press, who demonise them as scroungers and malingerers while snapping thread after thread of the safety net which keeps many out of abject poverty, squalor and indignity. And so it was, that on the last day of school where it is tradition for year 11s to scrawl goodbye messages on one another’s school shirts, Gueye took home a shirt covered with the N-word in giant block capital letters across the front.Even those who declare themselves as anti-racist allies later withdraw their consent for being mentioned, for fear of “any negative association”.

On 17 June, Harper, who may be best known as the immigration minister responsible for sending vans encouraging illegal immigrants to “go home” around parts of London, appeared to encourage an online pile-on against Eldridge-Tull, who had a tenth of his 30,000 followers, and demanded she apologise to the local community for tweeting: “The reaction to the BLM protest in Lydney has brought to light so much support, but so much hate. There is still plenty of support and goodwill in the Forest of Dean for positive action on equality.Racism, sexism and homophobia are not just woven into the fabric of our history, they are living dynamics in our culture, even in our economy. Violent and sadistic bullying of all sorts is abhorrent, regardless of a person's age or circumstances. A letter from the then mayor, Walter Leach, underlined its point three times that “All Lives Matter”, apparently unaware that it is a slogan malevolently used by the far right to denigrate anti-racism movements.

I love where I live, but I’m ashamed of my neighbours, and ashamed to be part of a community that has so widely endorsed and exacerbated racial hatred. When it is sparked by something as seemingly random and inescapable as hair-colour, body shape or imperfect facial features, it seems especially brutal and cruel. Nobody wishes to bar me from marrying my partner, wherever and however we choose, because she has (peculiarly, I will be the first to admit) fallen in love with a ginger. Last year, Tremlett took the matter of the Forest of Dean’s BLM movement to local Conservative MP Mark Harper, who raised the matter in the House of Commons.

Alastair Moffat of ScotlandsDNA, which carried out the analysis, told the news agency that showing how many Brits have the ginger gene could help end the prejudice that “blights the lives” of many redheads. When Gueye posted a picture of her school-leaver’s shirt on Instagram last year, one of her schoolfriends wrote that it was outrageous, and that she was impressed with everything Gueye was doing. Following her death, the father of 15-year-old Helena Farrell, from Cumbria, “demanded discrimination against ginger people to be made a hate crime”, said The Telegraph.