Sublime

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

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.

no matter how woke you think you are—and someone will be telling you to check your privilege while you try to battle your own defensiveness as you figure out what the hell they are talking about.

Le système raciste trie les êtres humains qui ont le droit de circuler librement dans la rue en fonction de leur couleur de peau. Un système qui trie les êtres humains qui ont le droit de respirer, et de vivre. Un système qui détruit la nature et les humains. C’est ce système inégalitaire et injuste, basé sur des rapports de dominations et d’oppres

I no longer care about how the actions of other Black individuals reflect on me, since none of us are race representatives, nor is any individual responsible for someone else’s racist ideas.

That instead they would be punished for their very existence in Britain. Black and brown labour had proved integral to Britain’s success in both world wars, but black people themselves would face extreme rejection in the decades that followed.

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.