It is deeply unfortunate that anti-racist thought must devote time and energy to debunking such half-truths and falsehoods, but making visible the structures of real inequality and injustice is the only way we can all have a critical, progressive, and most importantly adult conversation about race and racism in Britain today. 

*Adam Elliott-Cooper works in the philosophy department at UCL and is a PhD student at the University of Oxford

Watch him on the BBC here:

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/how-not-tackle-race-trevor-phillips-style

Nathaniel

Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, PhD

Research Associate in the Philosophy of 'Race'
Department of Philosophy, University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, dtmh.ucl.ac.uk, #DTMH