Ten By Six analyses why there is an increased prevalence of race hate especially in issues of law and order in Dorset.
Should we be surprised that people are being openly racist?
The answer is complicated but given how society has attempted to confront it and then decades of progress is...
In the time when it’s more important than ever to be united, to support one another, and to work together, with Mrs Chika Udezue, one of the leaders of the Black and Minority Ethnic in Dorset we are starting the World of Love campaign to bring people together regardless...
Why should you report Hate Crime?
By reporting hate crime when it happens to you, this may help prevent it happening to someone else. It also helps to understand the extent and impact of discrimination or prejudice.
You can report it as a victim, a witness or on behalf of someone else.
Hate crime...
Alongside many others across the UK Millie Cridland from Weymouth took the knee to symbolically call for justice for George Floyd, murdered by police officers in the US, and to make her mark for Black Lives Matter.
Millie said 'I had to do it when I heard it was taking...
On 25 January 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who...
Many people on social media have criticised Dorset police in recent days for their disproportionate stop and search activity against BAME members of communities.
'Racial disproportionality continues to be high for black people across Dorset. In 2017/18, black people were stopped and searched at approximately sixteen and a half times...
CALL-OUT FROM BRIDPORT
Thousands of people have demonstrated across Dorset in support of Black Lives Matter. Please support Saturday's event in Bridport:
SATURDAY 13 JUNE, 12 noon, assemble at Mountfield, Millennium Gardens, Bridport. Access from Downes Street, off East Street (car park nearby).
Please bring placards, banners - and your voices.
Please take care...
Slavery justice: ‘It’s time, Mr Drax.’
In a unique initiative, this week Dorset is linked direct to the Caribbean as campaigners challenge Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, about his ownership of the Drax Hall estate in Barbados.
Barbadian MP Trevor Prescod will address a rally on Saturday 17 July outside Drax’s Charborough Park estate in Dorset....
Seems backwards racist attitudes are prevalent even in gentle Facebook groups. The comments were embarrassing and nostalgic for the good old racist days when the BNP were on the rise and the Black and White Minstrels show was on TV.
I haven’t hidden names as they posted in a public...
