This essay, on racism and ‘white privilege’, was my Observer column this week.  It was published on 14 June 2020, under the headline ”White privilege’ is a distraction, leaving racism and power untouched’. The transformation has been bewilderingly swift. Six years ago, most Americans thought that police killings of black suspects were ‘isolated events’. Now, three out of four accept that there exists a systemic problem. Support for Black Lives Matter has risen more in the past two weeks than over the past two years. And […]

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