#EU should come out of the state of denial on structural racism & police brutality against minorities.
Condemnations are only meaningful when they are coupled with real action to completely change racial biases in our institutions. #BlakeLivesMatter
@EU_Commission @JuliePascoet
Structural & institutional racism as well as police brutality against minorities are a national security threat to all EU member states.
Our future depends on building a union for all without structural and institutional racism. #blacklivesmatter @vonderleyen @EU_Commission
Failing to acknowledge police brutality in the EU a single time by @vonderleyen shows the EU continues its state of denial.
Let's ask the difficult questions on why the EU is structurally and institutionally racist. #BlackLivesMattters
A few tips @EU_Commission can take home:
Tip 1: Meaningfully address institutional racism in the EU and put decolonization at the centre.
Tip 2: Introduce a binding EU Framework for National Action Plans Against Racism
Tip 3: Don't deny institutional racism & police brutality.
#Decolonization is key to address structural racism.
Toppling statues of criminals & racist colonialists is essential to make Europe future proof just as education on the real colonial history of Europe. #BlackLivesMattters
Tips to take home for #EU:
@EU_Commission , the @EUCouncil and the @CoE_fr has to take a strong and decisive action against structural racism, police brutality & racialist in Europe and its institutions.
Structural racism in Europe is poisoning the future of EU.
Therefore EU institutions should invest in real system change at home instead of externalizing the issue.
A threat to minorities in the form of police brutality against minorities is a threat to Europe.
Maintaining a state of denial over the true scale of structural racism and limiting actions to symbolic acts will not make the EU future proof. #BlackLivesMattters #GeorgeFloyd
For a few weeks, #BlackLivesMatter took the headlines. Now what?
We toppled visible monuments, but what about the invisible monuments in #Europe & the #US?
#Decolonisation is a major priority to address structural racism in the EU. #ReparationsNow
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
From #Roosevelt to #Churchill to #LeopoldII: they are visible monuments to the greatest crime in history: #Colonialism.
Therefore, we must prioritise #decolonization to topple the invisible monuments that make our society so structurally racist. #Europe
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
#Decolonization is essential to address structural racism in EU Member States.
#Reparations & #Restitution is the bed rock of any decolonization agenda.
That's why #France must walk the talk and repatriate the looted Igbo statues to #Nigeria: telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/3…
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