I’d like to remind British Asians that though it is important to shame America, don’t pretend like your family members don’t say the things they say about dark-skinned Asians & Black people. This isn’t just a white problem. Get uncomfortable. Talk to your family.

Don’t pretend like some of you have parents whose ‘hearts would be broken’ if you brought a Black person home. Particularly brown men who have such a violent reaction to brown muslim women dating or seeing Black men. Are we going to pretend that this isn’t a consistent issue?

In Britain, Pakistani/Bangladeshi men share almost exactly the same economic & social disadvantages as Black Caribbean men. Least likely to be employed, dangerous incarceration rates, least likely to go to uni, etc. etc.

Yet so many will convince themselves that they are better, even if they are broken, because they aren’t Black. It is a pandemic just like it is within white communities. Only difference is that we have a history of solidarity with Black communities here in the UK

And if we don’t start addressing this systemic problem within our own community, if Black people in Britain lose, do you think these systems will let you survive? It is our fight as much as it is theirs. Both inside our homes & against greater institutions.

So humble yourselves. Islam & religion won’t protect you from colourism or anti-blackness. Only education & a greater focus on kindness & -actual- equality will.

State violence against Pakistani/Bangladeshi communities here in Britain is a shared experience with Black people here. So when you choose white supremacy over solidarity with their fight, you will lose fast & hard. And then who will cry for the oppressed outside of this country?