It does feel like she’s conflating colourism with racism. Some of the most abhorrent things I’ve heard people say are against travellers and it’s hard not to call that racism. These were ‘normal’ people who genuinely think they’re not racist. I feel like if black people felt so alienated from wider society that only 1/5-1/4 of them could read she would have no problem (rightly) calling this an issue of systemic racism.
It does feel like she’s conflating colourism with racism. Some of the most abhorrent things I’ve heard people say are against travellers and it’s hard not to call that racism. These were ‘normal’ people who genuinely think they’re not racist. I feel like if black people felt so alienated from wider society that only 1/5-1/4 of them could read she would have no problem (rightly) calling this an issue of systemic racism.