We should question the class prejudice that allowed white, poor victims to be ignored by the authorities in a way that would be less likely to happen to a middle-class white girl raised in Islington.

Eugenicists argued that those with desirable qualities should be encouraged to reproduce, while those without should be discouraged.

we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to reappropriate the term “feminism,” to foc

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

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

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

The Act stated that overt racial discrimination was no longer legal in public places – although it didn’t apply to shops or private housing.

They are both in and of a society that is structurally racist, and so it isn’t surprising when these unconscious biases seep out into the work they do when they interact with the general public.

As I write about shattering perspectives and disrupting faux objectivity, I have to remember that there are factors in my life that bolster my voice above others.