Not just a matter of interpersonal relations, racism is structurally embedded. That means that changing individual attitudes and biases is not enough to root it out.
March 21 is the date of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, in 1960. The struggle against the Apartheid system there was a good example of the necessity of changing individual views as well as legal and economic systems of oppression. And this struggle is not finished.
This year’s theme, as declared by the United Nations, is “60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial of Discrimination (ICERD).”
Take some time today to learn what has been achieved in the past 60 years and what you can do in your community and as a union activist to continue to move this work forward.
