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For fans of the Small Axe films there is a new documentary looking at the educational scandal where ordinary black children were labelled as subnormal and sent to 'special' schools where too often no effort was made to educate. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000w81h/subnormal-a-british-scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/20/subnormal-a-british-sc...

Read about this yesterday on the BBC site. A type of systemic racism I had no idea ever happened. That's a sure fire way to start someone off in life with a bad set of cards.

This was the Small Axe drama episode on the subject

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qfb1/small-axe-series-1-education

ESN was used as a not necessarily racist insult in the 60s and 70s, in the vein of "eppo", "spastic" or "cretin" (apologies for the use of these words as insults but I was at school in rather a sport worshipping toxic bully-rich environment in the early 70s - there were some very unpleasant people around and na doot they have done well out of it)