A Guide to Talking About Racism
Written by Sanjiv Lingayah and Nina Kelly. Photo by Phoebe Davies.
It is self-evidently not enough to be on the right side of the argument on racism. That alone does not ensure racial equity or justice.
The task is to take what advocates, campaigners and activists know and understand about the problems of racism and race inequity and to convert that into social change. There is no single path to transformation. However, by definition, those who are marginalised and excluded as a result of racist practice do not have a hold on political power, so it is important to cultivate other means to drive forward change.
One way to do this is to connect the ideas of advocates and campaigners and the people prepared to back and develop them. But efforts to make this connection are hampered by a public conversation on racism that feels stuck on whether racism is an issue in the first place…