[Originally appeared in The Big Issue #1414, 18-24 June, 2020] Windrush Day was long overdue to show respect for the sweat, blood and tears West Indians put into this country. It took 70 years to get recognition for my father's generation for the work they did. And after all that, people were threatened with deportation. Kids who were five or six when they came to England, that is what they had to go through. Shame, shame, shame.