darkmatter

Back in the day (well, the seventies and eighties at least), one of
the more puzzling aspects of the 36 bus ride from Lewisham to
Paddington was the nature and frequency of the sectarian banter
aboard. ‘Blubber mout’, ‘Picky head’, ‘Bubu lips’ were the main
offenders but the usual suspects, far from being the expected BOM
(British Movement - the ‘O’ was a target, decades before Public Enemy)
skin candidates from Bermondsey, were almost always British Caribbean
youths. The object of their derision: Africans. The journey, from
south to west London, could take upwards of an hour, and the abuse
would intensify in those areas, like the Queens Road, Peckham, where
there were large African and Caribbean communities living cheek by
jowl.