‘GO HOME? RETURN THE LOOT FIRST!’

Social-justice advocate and writer Ishmahil Blagrove has always been vocal about the mistreatment of immigrants in the UK and the British-state negligence that led to the deaths of 72 people in Grenfell Tower in West London. Right now in the UK, there is anti-migrant sentiment being flamed by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who is constantly sharing and retweeting disinformation about migrant communities. But, as you can see from this flashback clip of Blagrove at London’s famous Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, the racism and xenophobia in the country started long before Musk began tweeting.

A heckler tries to silence Blagrove and shouts out, “Go back home!” - and, off the cuff, Blagrove destroys him with a witty tale to remind him that it was the enslaving, looting Brits who came uninvited to Africa, overstaying their welcome for hundreds of years - so that he (Blagrove) has got every right to stay on in the UK for at least another 360 years, according to his calculations.

Video credit: ISHMAHIL BLAGROVE @ SPEAKERS' CORNER