Death by a thousand cuts

Micheline Khan
11 min readJun 16, 2020
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It takes a special kind of arrogance to state that the UK is not racist. But this is exactly what our Prime Minister’s spokesperson did recently, from the lofty perch of his white privileged pedestal. I imagine all ethnic minorities in the UK gasping in incredulity at his words, myself included.

The next day, Boris appeared on his Twitter feed appearing to backpedal and stating that nonetheless Black Lives Matter, in an…

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