With her bail application refused and being held on remand, Lucy was panicking. “Imagine you’re a middle-class mother with a child at home,” says one lawyer. “You’ve never had any contact with the police. Suddenly, you’re arrested, then thrown into jail. There was a feeling of bewilderment, of terror.”
ugh the entitlement is real! So because she’s middle class and a mother we should all feel sympathy for her despite the ugly violence she encouraged?
Re. Her references from the parents of children she looked after, I’m sure they were written in good faith but they were ill advised IMO.
Racism is complex, just because you have Black or Asian clients or even friends it doesn’t mean you’re not racist. Trust me, I grew up baffled by how genuinely nice and welcoming some of my friends blatantly racist parents were to (non-white) me who was the child of an immigrant. They made exceptions for me as they knew and liked me but it didn’t change their racism overall.
I remember one of my mums oldest friends revealing herself as a racist when I was in my early 20s. She had known me since I was born and she took us in for a few weeks when I was toddler and my mum had nowhere to live.
You can be polite and even like certain “foreigners” or non-white people but still carry a huge amount of hostility and prejudice against them as a group.
It’s a bit like a deeply sexist man doesn’t stop being misogynistic because he has some female colleagues he got along well or female family members who sing his praises.