![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just to add an extra element of panic, I have recently done some PREVENT training (anti-terrorist training legally required to be undertaken by educators), and have seen a whole host of new right-wing organisations who I hadn’t ever heard of, who have a pervasive, well-networked, dangerous, scary white supremacist/ white nationalist/ anti-feminist message. To remove inequality, we need equality, and this can’t happen whilst some people, institutions and nations hold large amounts of power over others. Lots of other people have been writing this and, as I say, the more I read, the more I realise that this truth is inescapable. In short, “We have to actually dismantle the power if we want to make change”. “When we look at racism simply as any racial prejudice we are entered into a battle to win over the hearts and minds of everyone we encounter fighting only the systems of the cancerous system, not the cancer itself.” “Racism is any prejudice against someone because of their race when those views are reinforced by systems of power”. As Ijeoma Oluo writes in her first book, So You Want to Talk About Race, ![]()
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