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Where is our anti-racist activism six months later?

For all the globally-impacting developments in the past 12 months, anti-racism campaigning has no doubt been the most positive. Whilst progress has been made, manifestations of a systematically racist society still remain as apparent as ever and the attention paid in the summer is starting to look like, as lots of socio-political human rights issues end up becoming, a vehicle for many to make themselves feel better about their involvement in systemic racism.   That is perhaps a cynical way to look at things, but it is shaped by both what I have personally experienced in the past few months, and our attitudes to current affairs. These are obviously only what I gleam, one perspective in a world full of opinions, but I feel that from how directly it has affected myself and those around me, and will continue to affect many others, it is one that must be highlighted if we are to truly understand the problem we proclaimed to fight back in the summer.  It has been four and a half months since