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‘We’ll never be accepted’: Yorkshire’s Asian community absorbs Rafiq story

The cricket racism scandal has led some to consider why good people say nothing about bigotry and abuse

Every year, a British Asian small business owner in West Yorkshire sends his neighbour a card and leaves a gift on his doorstep. And every year, without fail, that neighbour ignores him.

“Ever since we moved in, he won’t look at me and my family; he doesn’t respond when we say ‘hello’. He even planted conifers so we couldn’t see into his garden and he can’t see us,” the man, who wished to remain anonymous, said. “But I still send him Christmas cards and buy him a gift. He won’t even open the door when I knock, so I just leave it on the doorstep.”

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