A teenager from Kings Heath has been ‘touching up’ racist and Islamophobic graffiti in Birmingham, by editing hate-filled far-right messages into slogans promoting peace, unity and community cohesion.
Luke Holland, 17, has reported the acts of vandalism to authorities but was torn between waiting for officials to remove the bigoted written attacks or doing it himself. In the end, the youngster - who runs his own eco-cleaning company - decided to “educate” the vandals.
While returning home last night, the young entrepreneur came across a bus-stop defaced with a rant including the words “No More Mosques” and “Mosques are breading garunds [sic] for terrorism”.
“I walked past this vile sentence earlier and felt I couldn’t leave it there. Birmingham thrives on diversity, we live in an amazing city which has no place for racism,” he said.
“Racism divides us and diversity brings us together. I thought it’d be better if the graffiti was changed a little bit. I gave it the true Birmingham viewpoint!”
Luke, who regularly campaigns against racism and attended the anti-EDL rally in Dudley over the weekend, is also standing as a council candidate for Moseley & Kings Heath.
