Seeing thousands in Parliament Square protesting for #BlackLivesMatter is both heartwarming and saddening. Sad that it still needs to happen, I mean. Brought up in the ‘60s not to make any racial distinctions, I thought everyone would have got the message by now. 1/2
But centuries of injustice can take centuries to undo. I hope this ferment speeds things up, that black kids growing up now can experience a different, fairer world to that of their forebears. We should all be ashamed that a basic truth still needs saying: #BlackLivesMatter 2/2
And I hope that those kids get to see their own communities harmonise so that they don’t feel pressure from both inside and out. And I hope all the #AllLivesMattter types, un-useful though it is at this moment, intend to live by that statement. Then we might get somewhere.
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