Splitting hairs over racism

The book has won praise on both sides of the Atlantic for challenging some of our commonly accepted everyday assumptions about racism

It’s commonplace to hear people deny they are racist, adding by way of proof that some of their best friends are non-white, or that their opposition to racism is well known. “Moi? Racist? Nonsense”. 

But is being  “non-racist” the same thing as being “anti-racist”? “NO!”, screams the author of this book arguing that not only are they not the same thing but such protests and denials are in fact a “mask” to conceal covert racism. 

“Denial is the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations,” he writes pointing out that the claim that one is “not racist” signifies “neutrality”.  What