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1XTRA NEWS: THE REAL TALK OF THE STREETS
Living with the New Cross fire
Denise Gooding
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Thirteen black teenagers died in a fire at a house party in the New Cross area of London in 1981.
Black people across Britain rose up in anger at the way the tragedy was dealt with by the government, the police and the media.

Was it a race attack, murder or an accident? There have been many theories but still no-one knows.

Denise Gooding was the youngest survivor and she tells the story of that terrible night when her brother and friends lost their lives.
Will the real story ever come out? Will the families at last learn the truth?

justin
shame to the law, love and all the best for all families concerned.

Summayah Faith Gibbons
First of all, my belated regards and hope for justice goes out to Denise Gooding and family. We already know the answer yet people of higher authority will not step down to admit to what we know. The government, the police and the white man’s media are all propaganda, even our own race now believes that we are a hopeless case drowning in drugs and gun culture - Black on Black violence, unaware that it is supplied to us.

I am NOT telling you to hate on other races but do not let them make you believe that they are better than we are but they are just as equal. May the Almighty God bless and guide us to the truth and grant us with justice, Amen.

Messy One
I think it's ridculous that after all this time, they still haven't worked out what happended that night! The victims families still haven't had closure - does make you wonder what the outcome would've been if it'd been a house fire in Richmond or Hampstead.

And we still haven't forgotten how the Queen of this country ignored the tragedy and didn't send a message of condolence like she did with a similar tragedy to a white family not long before. PROPA SHABBY, just like how they let Stephen's murderers get away with it.

Kane
it could have been murder but being born in '86 i don't actually know anything really about it... how is it though if a white person gets killed then it is pursued as murder but if a black person gets killed then it is persued as racist? like people are constantly saying we should all be treated the same yet this is always happening... kinda ironic init?

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