Reni Eddo-Lodge

“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people,…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Some start boycotting halal meat on cruelty grounds, as though there are varying degrees of acceptable animal death they'll withstand for the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember.”

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“Not displaying anger wasn’t going to stop me being labelled as angry, so I thought: fuck it. I decided to speak my…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Discussing racism is not the same thing as discussing 'black identity'. Discussing racism is about discussing white identity. It's about white anxiety.…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The word multiculturalism has become a proxy for a ton of British anxieties about immigration, race, difference, crime and danger. It’s now…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“The insistence is on merit, insinuating that any current majority white leadership in any industry has got there through hard work and…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it's up to…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge