The scourge
of racism cannot be looked at or dealt with without challenging every
assumption that any individual or group wants less, needs less or deserves less
than any other. Thus we tackle racism as
part of a hierarchy in society which values some human beings over others in
varying degrees, and we learn from examining our own struggle, whoever we are,
as we have lived it, and the struggles of billions against apartheid, caste divisions,
wage discrimination, state violence, and other discriminations, from Ferguson
to Fallujah, and from Gaza to the Congo.
We have to
examine the NGOs as well as Parliament, and the ambition of those who come from
movements for justice but end up at high salaries in high places imposing and
hiding injustice. We must overcome
divisions at the grassroots to blow the whistle on every establishment that is
based on maintaining the hierarchy of gender, race, religion, nationality, age,
disability, etc.
Selma James
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