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Been watching any TV this Easter holiday? Did you notice The Racial Pecking Order? #MDClassics fb.me/6wzkOIft1
'Name me a leading classical British actor and you can bet your bottom shilling they’ve done “period drama”. A genre that is all but off-limits to actors of colour. Some might well protest that Downton Abbey recently featured a black character. One.
And the news of his casting made headlines. So we can easily see what a major decision and talking point it is to introduce any actor of colour to a production of this kind.
2015: Letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean, is this what the Tories mean by ‘British values’? mediadiversified.org/2015/04/16/let… #MDClassics
“Britain has lived its long life as an exemplary country, the small island with a massive impact”.
Less than twenty-four hours after David Cameron made this empire-esque declaration at the Conservative’s manifesto launch,
Less than twenty-four hours after David Cameron made this empire-esque declaration at the Conservative’s manifesto launch,
the latest reality of Britain’s brutal impact on the world appeared in newspapers. 400 migrants were reported to have drowned yesterday in the Mediterranean Sea; just months after Britain withdrew support for rescue operations.
Thread... @WritersofColour is 100% reader funded. and @SamanthaAsumadu is not funded at all! Every little helps 🙏 Thank you
@SamanthaAsumadu More info, they will be helping with book/agent research, blog scheduling, diary management, video editing, campaigning for #JusticeForIPPs & probably #NationalityandBordersBill, some publishing research, converting articles into audio for podcast & more
We're also currently in talks with an UK outlet about being back the @WritersofColour experts directory back. So there will be work on that to do to 
#MDClassics by @NafeezAhmed
David Cameron confidant promotes forced depopulation of Muslims in Europe mediadiversified.org/2015/04/28/dav…
David Cameron confidant promotes forced depopulation of Muslims in Europe mediadiversified.org/2015/04/28/dav…
Comment is white: far-right extremism’s subversion of the British media mediadiversified.org/2018/10/16/com…
Melanie Phillips wants to “destroy” the “Muslim world” mediadiversified.org/2018/10/26/mel… #MDClassics
'Fortgang (a white male) clearly misunderstands what white male privilege means and how structural racism and sexism operate in the everyday. He frames himself, despite his economic, social (and racial) capital, as an underdog.
..TIME even republished the piece under the sensationalist title “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege”. Though the title may be an unflattering editorial pick, even this betrays an important misunderstanding of the concepts being discussed.'
