{"id":19186,"date":"2020-06-11T02:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/tackling-deep-rooted-racism-will-take-courage"},"modified":"2020-06-11T02:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:38:35","slug":"tackling-deep-rooted-racism-will-take-courage-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19186","title":{"rendered":"Tackling deep-rooted racism will take courage | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Munro<\/strong> on his slave-owning ancestor, <strong>Martin Wright<\/strong> on corporate irresponsibility in India, <strong>Peter McKenna<\/strong> on class awareness, <strong>Jane Darling<\/strong> on black and white history, <strong>Brian Keegan<\/strong> on anti-Irish racism, <strong>Dorothy Chang<\/strong> on \u2018yellow history\u2019 and <strong>Barbara Hibbert<\/strong> on following the models of Holocaust education<\/p>\n<p>Neville Lawrence is so right to say that \u201cblack people are still treated as second class in Britain\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/jun\/09\/neville-lawrence-black-people-still-second-class-citizens-in-britain\" title=\"\">Neville Lawrence: black people still second-class citizens in Britain<\/a>, 9 June). I was 70 before I realised with a shock that all my life I had subconsciously regarded all people of colour as inevitably second class.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to a speech by an imam, and slowly it dawned on me. I was a liberal-minded white chap, churchgoing. I was in tears, and finally managed to get up and apologise to the imam. I fear that perhaps over half the nation feels as I did. It\u2019s not just the police. It\u2019s ingrained \u2013 from 400 years ago. My great-grandfather employed slaves on his Virginia tobacco plantation. As a Jew, when after seven years he released them, fellow owners burned his barns down and he fled to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/tackling-deep-rooted-racism-will-take-courage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna on class awareness, Jane Darling on black and white history, Brian Keegan on anti-Irish racism, Dorothy Chang on \u2018yellow history\u2019 and Barbara H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[986,1445,1451,615,614,1033,62,1086,80,362,1082,713,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhopal","category-black-lives-matter-movement","category-class-issues","category-education","category-history","category-holocaust","category-india","category-kenya","category-protest","category-race","category-schools","category-slavery","category-tea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}