CLIMATE INACTION = RACISM
Hey @Guardian @GdnSaturday @GdnReadersEd, well done for the article on climate activists. But how come there’s 19 people with placards and 1 without?
You know, the 1 black person, Elise Yarde.
Don’t you like what she has to say?
🧵thread by Elise 1/6
When I realised I was the only person without a placard I felt so let down. I experience this shit way too often. Why am I the only black person in the article? Why does my message get silenced? Why don’t you want to talk about the fact that climate change is a racial issue? 2/6
Can’t you see that not noticing when you treat black people differently = racism.
Omitting their sign deliberately = racism.
Not printing the placard because you think it will offend your white middle class @guardian readership = racism.
🧵by Elise 3/6
And more than anything
CLIMATE INACTION = RACISM.
Every day we fail to reduce emissions is sentencing millions more black and brown people to death.
🧵by Elise 4/6
Naively, I was really looking forward to this article being published, but all it’s done is hurt me. It has also done The @guardian a lot of harm. Aren’t you supposed to be the good guys?
🧵by Elise 5/6
To fix this @Guardian @GdnSaturday @GdnReadersEd I want an article with my placard printed and a discussion of the issues I am raising in this thread.
Read the original article here: theguardian.com/environment/ng…
🧵Thread by Elise Yarde 6/6
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