We must not confuse privilege with basic humanity

I grew up on a council estate, watching the miners go hungry, witnessing riots in Brixton, watching the hunt for the Yorkshire Riper and seeing kids become orphans and placed in a local children’s home.

When I was 13, I was sexually assaulted by the owner of the local grocery store where I worked, later that day he had a heart attack and I do not know what happened to him…