REGARDING the letters by C. MacArt (HAS, Sept 5) and Pete Winstanley (HAS, Sept 16), about racial injustice.
I once had a bedsit in central London, I hadn’t been there long when the landlady, an old Scottish woman, let a room to an Irish couple.
Unfortunately that same night they came in drunk and were hurling abuse at each other. She put them out and the next day was waiting for me when I came in from work.
She gave me an earful about the Irish, including remarks about my surname. I told her a few home truths whereupon she phoned the police, so I had to make a hurried exit (I soon got another room, further out).
So, yes, I think I’ve experienced racial abuse and injustice.
Tony Kelly, Crook.
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