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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Whiteness in the press had positioned itself for too long as the self-appointed, self-referential arbiter of racial problems, in which it pondered why these black and brown communities were so prone to violence and poverty, without a shred of self-awareness.”

51. “Whiteness in the press had positioned itself for too long as the self-appointed, self-referential arbiter of racial problems, in which it pondered why these black and brown communities were so prone to violence and poverty, without a shred of self-awareness.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “I write – and read – to assure myself that other people have felt what I’m feeling too, that it isn’t just me, that this is real, and valid, and true.”

52. “I write – and read – to assure myself that other people have felt what I’m feeling too, that it isn’t just me, that this is real, and valid, and true.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “I am only acutely aware of race because I’ve been rigorously marked out as different by the world I know for as long as I can remember.”

53. “I am only acutely aware of race because I’ve been rigorously marked out as different by the world I know for as long as I can remember.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “It was in that moment that I had to reluctantluy accept that pushes for positive discrimination were not about turning the whole place black but were simply about reflecting the society an organisation serves.”

54. “It was in that moment that I had to reluctantluy accept that pushes for positive discrimination were not about turning the whole place black but were simply about reflecting the society an organisation serves.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “What history had I inherited that left me an alien in my place of birth?”

55. “What history had I inherited that left me an alien in my place of birth?”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Structural racism is an impenetrably white workplace culture set by those people, where anyone who falls outside of the culture must conform or face failure. Structural.”

56. “Structural racism is an impenetrably white workplace culture set by those people, where anyone who falls outside of the culture must conform or face failure. Structural.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.”

57. “Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “The perverse thing about our current racial structure is that it has always fallen on the shoulders of those at the bottom to change it. Yet racism is a white problem. It reveals the anxieties, hypocrisies and double standards of whiteness. It is a problem in the psyche of whiteness that white people must take responsibility to solve. You can only do so much from the outside.”

58. “The perverse thing about our current racial structure is that it has always fallen on the shoulders of those at the bottom to change it. Yet racism is a white problem. It reveals the anxieties, hypocrisies and double standards of whiteness. It is a problem in the psyche of whiteness that white people must take responsibility to solve. You can only do so much from the outside.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “I have to be honest with myself. When I write as an outsider, I am also an insider in so many ways. I am university-educated, able-bodied, and I speak and write in ways very similar to those I criticise. I walk and talk like them, and part of that is why I am taken seriously. As I write about shattering perspectives and disrupting faux objectivity, I have to remember that there are factors in my life that bolster my voice above others.”

59. “I have to be honest with myself. When I write as an outsider, I am also an insider in so many ways. I am university-educated, able-bodied, and I speak and write in ways very similar to those I criticise. I walk and talk like them, and part of that is why I am taken seriously. As I write about shattering perspectives and disrupting faux objectivity, I have to remember that there are factors in my life that bolster my voice above others.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “White privilege is the fact that if you’re white, your race will almost certainly positively impact your life’s trajectory in some way. And you probably won’t even notice it.”

60. “White privilege is the fact that if you’re white, your race will almost certainly positively impact your life’s trajectory in some way. And you probably won’t even notice it.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Discussing racism is not the same thing as discussing ‘black identity’. Discussing racism is about discussing white identity. It’s about white anxiety. It’s about asking why whiteness has this reflexive need to define itself against immigrant bogey monsters in order to feel comfortable, safe and secure. Why am I saying one thing, and white people are hearing something completely different?”

61. “Discussing racism is not the same thing as discussing ‘black identity’. Discussing racism is about discussing white identity. It’s about white anxiety. It’s about asking why whiteness has this reflexive need to define itself against immigrant bogey monsters in order to feel comfortable, safe and secure. Why am I saying one thing, and white people are hearing something completely different?”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Then there’s the glaringly obvious point – if white extremism really is the bar at which we set all racism, why and how does racism thrive in quarters in which those in charge do not align themselves with white extremist politics? The problem must run deeper.”

62. “Then there’s the glaringly obvious point – if white extremism really is the bar at which we set all racism, why and how does racism thrive in quarters in which those in charge do not align themselves with white extremist politics? The problem must run deeper.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Not seeing race does little to deconstruct racist structures or materially improve the conditions which people of colour are subject to daily. In order to dismantle unjust, racist structures, we must see race. We must see who benefits from their race, who is disproportionately impacted by negative stereotypes about their race, and to who power and privilege is bestowed upon – earned or not – because of their race, their class, and their gender. Seeing race is essential to changing the system.”

63. “Not seeing race does little to deconstruct racist structures or materially improve the conditions which people of colour are subject to daily. In order to dismantle unjust, racist structures, we must see race. We must see who benefits from their race, who is disproportionately impacted by negative stereotypes about their race, and to who power and privilege is bestowed upon – earned or not – because of their race, their class, and their gender. Seeing race is essential to changing the system.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “In 2016, it was revealed by the Higher Education Statistics Agency that almost 70 per cent of the professors teaching in British universities are white men.10 It’s a dire indication of what universities think intelligence looks like.”

64. “In 2016, it was revealed by the Higher Education Statistics Agency that almost 70 per cent of the professors teaching in British universities are white men.10 It’s a dire indication of what universities think intelligence looks like.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “In this case, building housing out of reach for working-class people meant that it was out of reach for black people. We should be rethinking the image we conjure up when we think of a working-class person. Instead of a white man in a flat cap, it’s a black woman pushing a pram.”

65. “In this case, building housing out of reach for working-class people meant that it was out of reach for black people. We should be rethinking the image we conjure up when we think of a working-class person. Instead of a white man in a flat cap, it’s a black woman pushing a pram.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “It’s clear that equality doesn’t quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don’t want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place.”

66. “It’s clear that equality doesn’t quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don’t want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “I have always loved feminism’s readiness to viciously rip into the flesh of misogyny, to stick its chin out defiantly and scare the living daylights out of mediocre men.”

67. “I have always loved feminism’s readiness to viciously rip into the flesh of misogyny, to stick its chin out defiantly and scare the living daylights out of mediocre men.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “When I talk about white privilege, I don’t mean that white people have it easy, that they’ve never struggled, or that they’ve never lived in poverty. But white privilege is the fact that if you’re white, your race will almost certainly positively impact your life’s trajectory in some way. And you probably won’t even notice it.”

68. “When I talk about white privilege, I don’t mean that white people have it easy, that they’ve never struggled, or that they’ve never lived in poverty. But white privilege is the fact that if you’re white, your race will almost certainly positively impact your life’s trajectory in some way. And you probably won’t even notice it.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “In a tutorial, I distinctly remember a debate about whether racism was simply discrimination, or discrimination plus power. Thinking about power made me realise that racism was about so much more than personal prejudice. It was about being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.”

69. “In a tutorial, I distinctly remember a debate about whether racism was simply discrimination, or discrimination plus power. Thinking about power made me realise that racism was about so much more than personal prejudice. It was about being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”

70. “White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Forget politician-speak about Britain being a tolerant country. Being constantly looked at like an alien in the country you were born in requires true tolerance.”

71. “Forget politician-speak about Britain being a tolerant country. Being constantly looked at like an alien in the country you were born in requires true tolerance.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Riots always seem to kick off in the summer.”

72. “Riots always seem to kick off in the summer.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Racism does not go both ways. There are unique forms of discrimination that are backed up by entitlement, assertion and, most importantly, supported by a structural power strong enough to scare you into complying with the demands of the status quo. We have to recognise this.”

73. “Racism does not go both ways. There are unique forms of discrimination that are backed up by entitlement, assertion and, most importantly, supported by a structural power strong enough to scare you into complying with the demands of the status quo. We have to recognise this.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Their throats open up as they try to interrupt, itching to talk over you but not really listen, because they need to let you know that you’ve got it wrong.”

74. “Their throats open up as they try to interrupt, itching to talk over you but not really listen, because they need to let you know that you’ve got it wrong.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “After all, utopian ideals are as ideological as the political foundations of the world we’re currently living in.”

75. “After all, utopian ideals are as ideological as the political foundations of the world we’re currently living in.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “The courts would say: if you don’t experience racism in a same way as a black man does or sexism in a same way a white woman does then you haven’t been discriminated against. I saw that as a problem of sameness and difference.”

76. “The courts would say: if you don’t experience racism in a same way as a black man does or sexism in a same way a white woman does then you haven’t been discriminated against. I saw that as a problem of sameness and difference.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “The imaginations of black Hermione’s detractors can stretch to the possibility of a secret platform at King’s Cross station that can only be accessed by running through a brick wall, but they can’t stretch to a black central character.”

77. “The imaginations of black Hermione’s detractors can stretch to the possibility of a secret platform at King’s Cross station that can only be accessed by running through a brick wall, but they can’t stretch to a black central character.”

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Reni Eddo-Lodge Quote: “Because, if the current system worked correctly, and if hiring practices were successfully recruiting and promoting the right people for the right jobs in all circumstances, I seriously doubt that so many leadership positions would be occupied by white middle-aged men.”

78. “Because, if the current system worked correctly, and if hiring practices were successfully recruiting and promoting the right people for the right jobs in all circumstances, I seriously doubt that so many leadership positions would be occupied by white middle-aged men.”

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