5 Quotes by Reni Eddo-Lodge about race
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The politics of whiteness transcends the colour of anyone's skin. It is an occupying force in the mind. It is a political ideology that is concerned with maintaining power through domination and exclusion. Anyone can buy into it, just like anyone can choose to challenge it. [...] Those who perceive every critique of white-dominated politics to be an attack of them as a white person are probably part of the problem.
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It's truly a lifetime of self-censorship that people of colour have to live.
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Idistinctly remember a debate about whether racism was simplydiscrimination, or discrimination plus power. Thinking about power made merealise that racism was about so much more than personal prejudice. It wasabout being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.
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I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place. After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all the negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The same onus is not on me to change. Instead it's the world around me..
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If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the very same way.
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