Article by Rebel News staff.

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Alexa Lavoie was at a rally opposing mass immigration in Britain when she stopped to speak with Virginnia Logan, a woman standing at the front of the march, loud and unafraid, who doesn't fit the media's template for who these protesters are supposed to be.

Logan is part black. She was a Labour voter for most of her adult life. She came to oppose mass immigration not through the 'far right' but through a documentary.

"I watched the Tommy Robinson documentary," she told Alexa, "and I thought: I need to find out more." What she found radicalized her — but not in the way the word is normally used. What radicalized Virginnia Logan was her own government.

She grew up in working-class communities across Britain and watched what happened to them over decades of mass immigration. Girls she knew were groomed. Investigations were suppressed. The authorities knew and did nothing, she said, because acting would have meant accusations of racism.

"They were more afraid of being called racist than they were of protecting children." When she started speaking up, the word was turned on her. A woman of partial black heritage, called a racist for opposing the grooming of her neighbours' daughters.

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"That just made me more determined," she said.

Logan described what she believes is now a two-tier justice system in Britain — one set of rules for migrants and those the establishment protects, another for ordinary citizens. She has faced consequences for her activism: death threats, a car vandalized, social ostracism, but she marches anyway.

"If not us, then who?" she asks.

Alexa asked her about the media portrayal of the movement as overwhelmingly white, racist and dangerous. Logan gestured at the crowd around her. Look at who is actually here, she said. Look at who is standing at the front. The people the media says don't exist at these demonstrations are standing right there. "We are not what they say we are," the activist said.

She had one message for Canadians watching. What has happened to Britain — the grooming gangs, the two-tier justice, the suppression, the replacement of working-class communities — did not happen overnight.

It happened gradually, over decades, while people were told that noticing was racism. "Don't let them do to you what they did to us," was her warning.