Grenfell: ‘Facts must be brought to light by those people who lived there and who survived’

• SEVENTY-TWO people, mostly black, were burned to death in the tower fire disaster, (‘Race at heart of Grenfell fire disaster’, July 31).

With Grenfell in a predominately white, upper-class, area of Kensington & Chelsea, a racial argument tracing cause has to have, most definitely, a social inference. A “racist” argument by itself cannot answer the questions of accountability.

One could, however, postulate that covering a tower block – housing predominately black residents in an élite area of London – with safe cladding might have been a better solution in the first place.

Until the debate concludes and all facts considered – facts which must be brought to light by those people who lived there and who survived – we will lurch into an unfortunate legal abyss.

Could it be that all truths to this tragedy, whether black or white, be delivered under oath to a court of law?

Let the people speak. Black Lives Matter.

SANDRA HENDERSON,
NW8