‘Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.’

When it comes to the type of work that people in Britain are doing, the evidence again correlates along race lines.

The majority were in the Caribbean, so, unlike the situation in America, most British people saw the money without the blood.

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

White feminism is a politics that engages itself with myths such as ‘I don’t see race’. It is a politics which insists that talking about race fuels racism – thereby denying people of colour the words to articulate our existence.

kind of strained peace that simmers with resentment, the kind that requires some to suffer so that others are comfortable.

The same systems and practices that lead to class hierarchy would still stand. We must ask why politicians only ever approach class and poverty issues when it is in relation to whiteness. When

Too often, a white feminist’s ideological standpoint does not see racism as a problem, let alone a priority. The backlash against intersectionality was white feminism in action.

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