Thread by @XRebellionUK

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