Notting Hill Carnival is the mix of generations and cultures
It was designed by Claudia Jones Cumberbatch as such
To ease the relations between communities bringing them together
Racist murder and attacks against the black community led to riots
Carnival was the best solution in a post-war England fraught with tensions
And widespread racial prejudice in the white communities that still survive today
There is no reasonable way, as some pretend today, to turn the victims into perpetrators
There is no white or other lives matter in the case of colonization, slavery and segregation
Rhetorically, this would equate to mourning a Waffen-SS who fell to his death from the mirador
Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery