Let’s kill this lie once and for all: Racism doesn’t come from working-class struggle. To claim the white working class would treat Black and Brown people better if they were economically happier is dishonest. It paints them as thoughtless, incapable of moral choice, and worse, it excuses their racism.... Poverty doesn’t create racism; white supremacy does. And blaming hardship is just another way to protect it. If they truly cared about their economic struggle, they’d know what’s in Nigel Farage’s manifesto. They’d see that his policies are a direct assault on their own livelihoods. But they don’t care to know, because racism is the priority, not survival. In the age of the internet, ignorance is a choice. Information is at their fingertips, yet they choose hate over truth, division over solidarity. There are no excuses left. They’re complicit, and it’s time we stop pretending otherwise. White liberals in Britain, including Individuals like Gary Stevenson and others who see themselves as non-racists, or the ‘not all white people’ brigade end up gate keeping the deeply entrenched racism in the UK, this direct attack, this insult to the intelligence of Black and Brown people also shines a light on the extent of implicit racism permeated within Britain as a whole. This protects the very structures that uphold white supremacy. Their ‘white fragility’ exposes the truth: Britain’s racism isn’t confined to the far right. It’s polite, it’s intellectual, it’s middle-class. It hides behind reasoned tones and liberal credentials. And that’s why this country never has an honest conversation about racism, because white people of every class are terrified of what the mirror will show them. The truth is too ugly, and they’d rather rewrite it than face it.show more

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