Racism must stop and we have a long way to go still! Let’s unite to put focus on ending racism. 2020 may be a crazy hard year but it’s also a starting point for real change ✊🏾
“I have felt quite heartbroken and I think a lot of my experience with racism has really come up to the surface these days. I have been feeling sad, I have actually cried a lot.
In some ways we are so much further behind than other countries in these conversations, because the acknowledgement of racism is not even there yet.“
- Thandi Dyani
Together with Mary Consolata, we invited bridge-builder Thandi Dyani into the Girls Are Awesome studio to talk about her experiences with racism. We did so because we are committed to being anti-racist. ⠀ ⠀
Collectively repeating that we are not racist is reinforcing the belief that racism does not exist. ⠀
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It does. It is very real, and it happens every single day. The only way to stop it is if we all collectively take upon us the responsibility of becoming anti-racist and take action against any race-related discrimination, suppression and hate, instead of staying neutral.
It's ok if you don't understand. You can't. But if you can't see it, please LISTEN... If you listen whenever you hear someone talk about their experience with racism, you will feel them and the pain they carry. And that, dear fellow human, is the first step to acknowledging the depth of the task we have ahead of us.
#Listen #StopRacism #Responsibility
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