Making the murder of Henry into an issue of collective punishment and responsibility for all Sikhs is being presented as some kind of logical conclusion or policy issue when it is in fact just the fear and racism that underpins whiteness manifesting itself, as it does, as “common sense”. And by the way Sikh women, elders, children wear a kirpan, it’s not just men. We wear it because we are sovereign and want to be able to defend ourselves, which has always been common sense to us as this racism is nothing new to us. Yesterday was 50 years since Gurdeep Singh Chagger was killed in Southall.