Sinister ‘Force’ will make race relations worse

What I saw in The Mail on Sunday last week was disgraceful – what appeared to be an illegal army, dressed in black and holding up the clenched fist of the Black Power movement of the 1970s and 1980s. It was reminiscent of the Blackshirts of the 1930s.

My worry is that the Metropolitan Police permitted this new group, Forever Family Force, to march at all, as it can only lead to a worsening of race relations.

It was shameful to allow such a march to take place, and totally unacceptable in our country.

What were the police doing? Nothing! What was the local council doing? Nothing.

What is the Government going to do about this?

It’s high time the Government took the lead and stopped such organisations and gangs.

John Harrison,

Harrogate, North Yorkshire

How worrying and sad it was to see the photos of the Forever Family Force activists parading through the streets of London.

They looked more like neo-Nazi supporters ready to go on the rampage than a group supposedly helping the Black Lives Matter cause.

If they are really concerned about black lives mattering, why aren’t they putting all their efforts into trying to put a stop the stabbings of young black people in and around the London area, which now seem to be happening on a daily basis? These are lives that matter that are being completely wasted. I expect this Forever Family Force will put the blame for these tragedies on the streets on knife manufacturers or shops that sell the blades.

S. Bishop, Kent

What a terrifying picture of the Forever Family Force protesters in The Mail on Sunday last weekend. Masquerading with their fists in the air – it all felt like a terrible threat.

What has this country come to when we see pictures like that? Why can’t people get together in peaceful dialogue?

V. Scarff, Oxfordshire

I’m afraid the Black Lives Matter movement will never achieve its aims with groups such as the Forever Family Force marching through London in a paramilitary show of force. Apeing the menace of fascists and racists throughout history should have no place in a peaceful movement seeking racial harmony and atonement for wrongs committed.

Roy Daniels, Luton, Bedfordshire

You reported that the Forever Family Force last week gathered with organisations including Rhodes Must Fall and Extinction Rebellion to demand reparations from the UK Government for slavery. I’m fed up with all of the demands being made for compensation for slavery. As with everything in the past, things cannot be undone. And why should this generation be responsible anyway? Let’s celebrate and be proud of where we are today, and have respect for each other whatever the colour of our skin. We will be stronger together.

Stasha Martin, East Preston, West Sussex