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A BLACK delegate at the annual meeting of Yorkshire and the Humber TUC gave a moving speech on Saturday about the scourge of racism in Britain.
Hashim Equiano, of general union GMB, was supporting a University & College Union motion on equality that condemned the government’s plan to deport refugees to Rwanda and rises in hate crimes and racist attacks.
It also accused former home secretary Suella Braverman of encouraging far-right groups who fought police after mobilising to “protect the Cenotaph” from pro-Palestine marchers on Remembrance Day, November 11, last year.
Mr Equiano told the gathering: “For more than 60 years, people saw me as a colour, not a person: I am sick of it.
“I’d go into a room and people thought: ‘where is he from?’ I am born and brought up English for 60 years.”
The carried motion stated that in times of austerity, economic hardship and crisis, far-right groups sought to divide working people and to scapegoat ethnic and other minority groups and called for the promotion of alternative policies.
