This is not just ‘horrible stuff that happens in America’. Black people know we need to dismantle the same system here, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
On American racism? “We don’t have all the horrible stuff that’s happened in America here,”For those of us who see racism for what it is, as a system that kills – both our bodies, and our humanity – this is traumatic. I listened to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, announce – as if it was his new discovery – that “black lives matter”, and offer someone as seemingly uninterested in anti-racism as Badenoch as a solution.
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