Diversity and inclusion promises ring hollow if racialized voices are shut out

That’s how liberal white supremacy functions: they smile in your face, make promises about diversity and inclusion, and invite you in their spaces just to mistreat you.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's response to a young Black man who worked for the African Development Bank at a Brookings Institution’s event in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10 was a display of anti-Blackness, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

October 19, 2022

OTTAWA—“They invite you then mistreat you.” Those are the words of the tweet thread by Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, the acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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