Individuals can’t take on governments and the media, but with the will and the technology it is possible to expose acts of racism
I am a British teacher of Asian heritage. Earlier this year I was beaten around the head by a white racist, a former soldier, who wielded two umbrellas and hurled abuse at me because of the colour of my skin. My attacker was Robert Browne. Last month he pleaded guilty to racially/religiously aggravated common assault/beating and today he was sentenced to 10 weeks, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay me £300.
Browne very nearly got away with his appalling attack on me, which left me both physically and emotionally injured, and extremely traumatised. He attacked me because I didn’t just walk on by when he and another man became involved in an abusive exchange with a homeless man who was begging outside a Tesco store in Greater Manchester.
Shabir Makim is a teacher
