2007 International Blog Against Racism Week

[oursin]

Details are here in the ibarw community.

As a pinko-beige person, I've been thinking what I could do (apart, that is, from listen and learn, which is perhaps the most important work).

Since it appears that there have been some indications lately that in some circles it's considered that racism is not a UK or European problem, I think that what I might

Comments

[sciamanna]

Very interesting links (also on the other related posts), thanks!

Reading your comment, I realized that I recently posted a comment on someone else's LJ which might be read as saying that there is no racism in Europe. Just on the off-chance that it was part of what you were referring to, I just want to clarify that I didn't mean to say that, only that racial issues are different here than in the US: but I didn't in fact make it clear in what I wrote. I do think that in contemporary Europe it's more to do with being foreign than race as such, but race is certainly also a factor (and your link about Garnier is a good example...)

[oursin]

No: your take seems admirably nuanced. Someone (I think several someones) in a discussion on some community in which controversy was raging were going 'This is only US problem' in a way that definitely suggested that we Europeans had got the question sorted.

But I wholly concur that things are different not just in Europe generally but in different national/regional contexts within Europe.