'Our country continuously fails to recognise and admit... black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life - simply due to the colour of our skin' Stormzy pledges £10m over 10 years to tackling racism
Stormzy said he was making his £10m donation to fight racial inequality because"the uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit, is that black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life - simply due to the colour of our skin.
"I'm lucky enough to be in the position I'm in and I've heard people often dismiss the idea of racism existing in Britain by saying 'If the country's so racist how have you become a success?!' and I reject that with this: I am not the UK's shining example of what supposedly happens when a black person works hard.
"There are millions of us. We are not far and few. We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born.
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