To stamp out racism, we need to learn to love one another

By Yetunde Hofmann

Appointing diversity and inclusion roles and holding workshops on bias are only a small part of solving our issues with race discrimination, argues Yetunde Hofmannarticle,

The murder of George Floyd by a member of an institution whose purpose and reason for being is to protect him is one that has evoked emotion at levels that many have not predicted. Yet this is unsurprising. I cannot begin to imagine the pain of any mother of any race who would not feel despair at the cruel deprivation of her son’s life. His murder is an indication of racism and discrimination at its very worst. What is particularly frightening is that this officer grew up somewhere, was educated somewhere, and developed his values and an outlook of life somewhere. His small examples of discriminatory behaviours will have gone unchallenged, and perhaps at times even been endorsed, which has all led up to this incident and subsequent protests dubbed ‘Black Lives Matter’.

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