People of color have known how it could happen for years, for decades, living in a world where she says “a lot of our power relations have been shaped by race and racism, but nobody was listening.”īritain’s high school curriculum sidesteps its racist past, and the country’ imperialist legacy has been whitewashed, she says. “When the election results came out, white middle class people were like, ‘Oh my goodness, how could this happen?’” Eddo-Lodge says. Immigration concerns have become “less about who is black, and more about who isn’t white,” she writes. ‘Fear of Black Planet,’ the fourth essay in the book, delves into how some of those forces are currently mixing with politics, and the seep of fringe ideas from the far-right to the mainstream. “It just means some other forces are at play.” “Despite children of color excelling in school when it actually comes to the job market they’re disproportionately affected by unemployment,” she tells TIME. The biggest rise in racial prejudice was among highly educated, white professional men between the ages of 35 and 64- men who can directly affect the prospects of everyone else.
Black unemployment rates between 19 were more than double those for whites. French and Swedish translations will follow.Įddo-Lodge uses data to illustrate her damning indictment of systemic racism in Britain - which the book describes as “not about personal prejudice, but the collective effects of bias.” Black people in the U.K are twice as likely as their white peers to be charged with drug possession despite lower rates of drug use among black British people. The book, also titled Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has sold 30,000 copies since its June publication in the U.K., and was released in the U.S. The post propelled her into the canon of contemporary authors writing about race and racism and landed her a book deal.
Instead, she received an outpouring of gratitude. Over a chorus of crying babies in a café close to her home in North London, Eddo-Lodge, 28, recalls that when she posted her treatise, she was prepared for an onslaught of hate by Twitter trolls. “I can no longer engage with the gulf of an emotional disconnect that white people display when a person of colour articulates our experiences,” wrote Eddo-Lodge, who was born and raised in London by her Nigerian mother. She was exhausted by the hostility and resistance she faced when attempting to create a dialogue about racism. Three years ago, British journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge sat down to write a blog post, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
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