Prince William reflected on his recent trip to the Caribbean and how 'discriminations remains an all too familiar experience for Black men and women in Britain.'
was met with protests and negative headlines, the duke and duchess are expressing their appreciation for the U.K.’s Caribbean diaspora. To honor Windrush Day, which commemorates an important day in the history of immigration to the country, William and Kate visited a new National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station in London. William also gave a speech where he discussed the trip and mentioned ongoing realities of discrimination.
“Our trip was an opportunity to reflect and we learned so much — not just about the different issues that matter most to the people of the region, but also about how the past weighs heavily on the present,” he said, according to the“Sadly, that is also the case for members of the Windrush Generation who were victims of racism when they arrived here. And discriminations remains an all too familiar experience for Black men and women in Britain in 2022.
The new monument features a man, woman, and child standing on a suitcase and was designed by Jamaican sculptorWindrush Day is named after a ship carrying migrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and other islands, which arrived in London to fill a post-war labor shortage in 1948. Many people of Black descent in Britain can trace their ancestry back to the wave of immigration that the ship’s arrival represented, collectively called the Windrush Generation.
. “But much work still to be done to meet the promises made when the Home Office scandal exploded four years [ago].”as their head of state. William used his speech to emphasize a previous statement that these decisions should be made by the populace. “Our trip was an opportunity to reflect, and we learnt so much. Not just about the different issues that matter most to the people of the region, but also how the past weighs heavily on the present,” he said.
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