'Progress and defiance in the face of systemic racism is an arduous process. A process that requires constant engagement and continual action.' ✍🏿 Natalie Morris writes for MetroOpinion
Anti-racism is an active and ongoing pursuit that requires a huge amount of energy, strength and resilience Both on an individual and societal scale, it’s natural to hope that things will just somehow get ‘better’. That life is, overall, on a positive trajectory, with everything from our careers to our standard of living improving with the passing years.Black History Month
Instead, we forgive grandparents who use outdated slurs – shaking our heads and attributing their language to ‘a different generation’ – while blindly trusting that today’s high-schoolers will never use such language or think in such terms. On social media, you might associate racism with boomers on Facebook or faceless trolls on Twitter, but the platform beloved of Gen Z, TikTok, isn’t virtuous on this front either.
It’s true that many social inequities have improved over the last 50 years. The racism that Black Brits experience today may not be as overt or as frequent as it would have been 20, 30 or 40 years ago. However, this isn’t simply the result of watching the years slip by. Just this week, a banana was thrown onto the pitch as a Black footballer celebrated a goal during an international match in Paris. Labour MP Rupa Huq was suspended for stating that Kwasi Kwarteng was ‘superficially Black,’ which she has since apologised for.
Awards celebrating Black talent have been cancelled, bestselling children’s books written by Black authors have declined, and white people have seemingly
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