The brutal murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and countless others are horrific manifestations of systemic racial oppression in the United States, which is also present here in the UK. We are disgusted and stand in solidarity with black and brown communities who face state violence and racism. We are outraged by the repeated failure of the US policing system to address the killing of unarmed black people by police officers. Enough is enough; we have been silent for too long.
We acknowledge that the system we live in is racist by design, and that silence shows complicity with murder. It is not enough to be non-racist - we must be actively anti-racist.
We have a vision of a more equal and just world and try to embody this through our actions and support. We are learning and growing and sometimes do not act swiftly or boldly enough. It is long overdue for racial justice to become a more explicit goal in our movement and in our theory of change. |
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