Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Structural racism is dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of people with the same biases joining together to make up one organisation, and acting accordingly.

In order to dismantle unjust, racist structures, we must see race. We must see who benefits from their race, who is disproportionately impacted by negative stereotypes about their race, and to who power and privilege is bestowed upon – earned or not – because of their race, their class, and their gender. Seeing race is essential to changing the sys

Black women, in these theories, were proof that the roads didn’t run parallel, but instead crossed over each other frequently.

we used the word intersectionality to talk about the crossover of two distinct discriminations – racism and sexism – that happens to people who are both black and women.

We need to change narratives. We need to change the frames. We need to claim the entirety of British history.

the Commonwealth Immigrants Act drastically restricted immigration rights to Britain’s Commonwealth citizens.

This demands a collective redefinition of what it means to be racist, how racism manifests, and what we must do to end it.

So many white people think that racism is not their problem. But white privilege is instrumental to racism.

When we live in the age of colour-blindness, and fool ourselves with the lie of meritocracy, some will have to be silent in order for others to thrive.