The United States is on fire with the flame of the revolution. Like a wildfire, and it was a long period of time. But the revolution is without borders and racism is not just an American problem. Although the murder of George Floyd was the last spark to police the knee, the fuel is to pour in decades. The widespread police brutality in a racial coloring environment Poverty and Inequality must feel out the blacks in the United States, there is no overwhelming choice when roads. Years of peaceful protests and lawsuits neither change nor justice. And so, riots; the wild cry of the unheard. , It emerged the solidarity protests in Australia, Britain, Germany, France and beyond outside the United States. Some have struggled to understand why, blithely suggesting that these protests because of the cultural hegemony of the United States. But as someone who grew up in Australia, lives in UK and frequent business travelers in the United States, it is clear that the reason lies closer to home. The structural racism underlying police brutality in the United States lives around the world, including in Australia and Britain. In England and Wales, young blacks are nine times more likely than their white counterparts to be imprisoned and in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders represent 28% of the prison population, although only 3.3% of the Australian population total ,. The statistics are devastating in their conclusion: the United Kingdom and Australia disproportionately kill and imprison blacks and indigenous people. For those whose body does not hurt directly, equity option is still a long way. The white supremacist system is alive and well. “I do not know any black person would be surprised or shocked by what happened to George Floyd,” says Dr. Shola Mos Shogbamimu, lawyer and activist for women’s rights in Britain. “People who suffer from selective amnesia. They forget Grenfell, Windrush, Sarah Reid, Rashaan Charles, Mark Duggan, Stephen Lawrence” This “selective amnesia” conveniently extends back centuries, offsetting the fact that the British Empire for the term of race and racism it was actually in charge. The Barbados Slave Code of 1661 marks the beginning of the legal codification of slavery to make the concept of “blacks” and “whites” race and racial hierarchy between them. people slaves who were blacks, “slaves” were as property in perpetuity, while whites (Irish, English, Scottish) would be marked as “indentured servants, the property only for the duration of their contract. As Barbados the first English colony was to create a series of laws slavery, these laws provided the basic ideology of white supremacy, the knee black life further and now dreams. not only the British their connections are often quick to deny the origins of racism and forget their role in pioneering transatlantic slave trade, but also ignore a nation built because it relies on white ‘, so has evaluated the concept. Australia, the country that I grew up, was the project. as James Cook said that ‘no man’s land’ (terra nullius) in 1770, cleared 65,000 years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inhabitancy This means that it has no obligation to Settl consent. to obtain and, and kill the ‘Indigenous impunity freedom. Those who survived, whiteness were subjects of the British Crown and declared forcefully “assimilated.” It continues to be the pursuit of the nation, sponsored by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, a bill that the “White Australia Policy” introduced the migration ban non-European. The policy was officially dismantled only in 1973, Australia has never officially its racist and genocidal history, recognized and therefore, not surprisingly, the amnesia persists. “When I see things like George Floyd, I’m just very grateful for the wonderful country we live in,” said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier this week, warning of the overseas divisions in Australia for importing, while hundreds collected by protesters in Sydney. It is easily forgotten that the existence of his “wonderful country” depends on the violent repression and ongoing aboriginal. For many Australians the brutal ghost prefer their history in willful denial of life rather than face. The English are able to deny their racist history because the worst has not occurred on English soil, but in the colonies. You searched for his racist brutality from the open sea, try to buy, denying any semblance of everything. Out of sight out of mind. But racism has a long history in British soil. Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood ‘speech on racism in schools and sports and politics, there is a UK version, which exists without it. There have been countless sparks. Why did this a catch? Why was the murder of George Floyd ones to light the fire of the ongoing protests in U.K. Australia and Mark Duggan or David Dungay Jr? What time? I am not able to answer. This has long been the living reality of blacks and indigenous people. I have traveled to over 20 countries to educate companies and executives for integration, prejudice and to address the structural inequality, but has often been frustrated by the lack of a real and sustainable change. People seem willing to racial “unconscious bias” is a saying sanitized might have to accept, “internalized racism”. But balk unlearn to make the structural change management, are committed to anti-racism. Maybe that will change – or at least, I hope. These surveys are not in a vacuum. They come in the wake of a devastating global pandemic, a phenomenon that is crystal clear, the failure of states to fully protect its citizens, especially those made from black communities to the test. After months of the economically and socially devastating Lockdown, there is not only undeniable proof of systemic inequality. It ‘also the time and space to the struggle for people with the reality of structural racism. In Lockdown, there is no other place to go, nothing to see. This is an awakening for the blacks that have been known since Black “were placed on this reality. This is a time of awakening for white people, not black, the non-native population. The people who have the ‘ experience of the pandemic, some maybe for the first time an understanding of what it means to be at the mercy of being “system.” Those who now have no excuse not to do the job that they have. what is always required is to change the system. Systems and institutions must be anti-racist. and here’s the thing: the institutions are artificial, like you. system change begins with you. it is up to you, dear reader, anti-racism, in themselves, their work, undertake the your daily practice. the policies and reforms necessary for profound changes that require a critical mass of support. for the system of white supremacy dismantles that killed us and canceled our humanity for centuries, we need be committed to anti-racism. Bring to examine their anti-darkness and internalized white supremacy. Commit to vote for the anti-racist policy. Commit to actively recruit more people in white and they pay well and give them the space to make mistakes. It is involved in the racial history of his nation to educate. Commit to educate and keep your non-blacks friends and colleagues responsible. Consider your anti-racism work a muscle, if not exercised atrophy. Strive to improve and keep your anti-racism, fitness’. not undertake this work, so we do not need to be here again. And force them to do in the long term, even if the headlines have moved on. Remember to get the privilege in the election on racism, instead of living it. I will always be black even after it stops trend – and my life does not matter then. – With reporting by Suyin Haynes
Because the protests in the US is an awakening for non-blacks around the world
