The article that changed my view … of how we can counter racial prejudice

FULL STORY by Jane Chelliah: The GUARDIAN…..

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Nevertheless, Eddo-Ledge’s piece hit a nerve and really spoke to me on a deep level. It articulated ideas that I had previously thought unique to me – namely that nobody can afford to be colourblind. A statement that particularly stuck with me was: “There are people who consider themselves left, progressive and very critical, who have convinced themselves that the only way to get beyond race is to stop talking about race”. Eddo-Lodge goes on to argue: “Colour-blindness is a childish, stunted analysis of racism. It starts and ends at ‘discriminating against a person because of the colour of their skin is bad’, without any accounting for the ways structural power works in these exchanges … Not seeing race does little to dismantle racist structures or improve the lives of people of colour.”