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Today, the annual Windrush Day will offer an opportunity to take stock, critically debate and even celebrate the symbolic anniversary. ROGER McKENZIE, a descendant of that generation, believes it’s also time to step up the resistance against prevailing racism

I’M the middle of three children of immigrants from Jamaica. My dad arrived first in 1960 to start what was to be 30 years of work on British Rail.
He was followed a year later by my mom who raised us kids while holding down part-time mainly cleaning jobs.
I will never need anyone to explain to me what hard work and dedication to your family looks like. We saw it every day.
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