In this episode, I talk about the plight of missing Black people in Britain, naming present and historical cases including Joy Morgan, Richard Okorogheye, Sarah Everard, Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman and Joyce Carol Vincent, and how the media coverage of them differed to Sarah Everard who was found murdered this March of 2021. I also talk about today's publication of "The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities" by the government, how it propagates the model minority myth of meritocracy, and undermines the material disadvantages black people experience at the hands of the state which often lead to death.
Examples of overt racism include but are not limited to the poor access to healthcare many Black people experience (maternal death rates for black women being 5x the rate of white women) to natural hair ban policies in a South London school Pimlico academy. I go on further to talk about the types of activism we can partake in to challenge the institutional and state violence black people face. In sharing my views on how degradation and discrimination works, I hypothesise that black people's invisibility, routine dehumanisation (via loss of citizenship), displacement and humiliation contributes to our lack of sympathy and normalisation of Black death.
Links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/there-s-an-epidemic-of-missing-children-of-colour-who-aren-t-photogenic-enough-to-find-a6989666.html

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