ABSTRACT
On the last Friday of July 2005, a young teenager was brutally murdered in Huyton, less than ten miles from the centre of Liverpool. Anthony Walker was seeing his girl friend home, an ordinary enough occurrence on a Friday night, but Anthony was black and minutes before he had been subject to vicious racist abuse. The subsequent trial left no one in any doubt that this was a racially inspired attack. Thus has one of the legacies of transatlantic slavery again forced itself into our everyday lives. Yet how many people make the connection? And how many want to forget it?
