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"I couldn't have a dialog with white individuals about the details of any problem if indeed they didn't want to recognise that the condition is out there. Worse still was the white person who might be ready to captivate the opportunity of said racism but nonetheless thinks we go into this dialog as equals. We didn't then, and we don't now." In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge published an impassioned debate on her behalf blog about her deep-seated irritation with the way discussions of competition and racism in Britain were constantly being turn off by those who weren't damaged because of it. She offered the post the subject 'Why I'm NO MORE Speaking with White People About Race'. Her pointed, fiercely clever words struck a nerve, and the post travelled viral, spawning a wide array of feedback from people eager to speak up about their own similar activities. Galvanised by this response, Eddo-Lodge made a decision to dive into the source of these feelings, this clear being hungry for an open discussion. The effect is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of shade in Britain today, covering issues from eradicated black background to white privilege, the fallacy of 'meritocracy' to whitewashing feminism, and the inextricable hyperlink between class and race. Filled with passionate, personal and keenly felt debate, Why I'm NO MORE Speaking with White People About Race is a wake-up call to a land in denial about the structural and institutional racism developing inside our homes.
