“You just exercised a freedom that none of these people of colour have,” Elliott tells the student, sternly. “I’m with you, Jane!”Elliott, now 87, said she started teaching about racism on April 5, 1968 — the day after the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. We are all of the same species, just of different colours, different shapes, different sizes, different genders. You’re trying to tell me that your parents are of two different colour groups, but that doesn’t mean there are two different races.”Q: So we shouldn’t be colourblind? Based on the work you’ve done, what can white people do to actually help in this moment?

Source: bd News24 July 05, 2020 11:37 UTC