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What is Racism?

on September 23, 2020

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If All Lives Matter, Do Something

All lives matter You cry While Muslims cower in fear Abused, segregated, lynched All lives matter You shout As Yemenites plead for sanctuary And you refuse refugees All lives matter You deplore Yet you sexualise women And patriarchy thrives All lives matter You type Inside the safety That white skin grants Where were your shouts When a man begged for breath? Where were your declarations When a woman was raped? Where are your donations When war steals the screams of a child? If all lives matter Do something

The Others

Are you familiar with the Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire ? Season three, episode five. For those of you who aren’t, it depicts a dystopian future in which soldiers are fighting and killing ‘zombies’. Only it turns out they aren’t zombies, but human beings. The soldiers have been fitted with implants that remove their empathy – some might call it humanity – by showing the targeted human beings as roaches (or zombies). A therapist tells the soldier who’s implant seems to be faltering, that most soldiers don’t shoot to kill, but rather aim for the space above their enemies’ heads. So, evidently, to make a person ‘shoot to kill’, we must first remove the target’s humanity. Thus removing any empathy the shooter might feel toward the human. Which is essentially what is happening right now in the real world. In the press and the media, a word is being utilised in a deliberate fashion, to dehumanise innocent children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. That word is migrant . Th

The Ironic Merry-go-round

‘I was brought up to treat everyone kindly, so what’s the problem?’ This is something I hear people say a lot in the conversation surrounding black lives matter . They tell me they’ve never witnessed racism and that black people are being treated the same as everyone else. ‘I don’t see colour,’ they implore. ‘I treat everyone the same. I am nice to them, so why are they protesting?’ ‘But they aren’t being treated the same by everyone,’ I say. ‘That’s the point. And they want you to see their colour, to see the differences between your lived experiences. They aren’t asking for special treatment, just that they aren’t discriminated against because of their skin colour. They are asking for exactly that; kindness. The same kindness most white people show most white people by default. The kindness you show them, is not the kindness they receive from everyone. So if you want them to be treated the way you would treat them, protests need to happen.’ ‘I’ve never seen any black person

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