Adjoa Andoh and the racialisation of society

Here’s an interesting exercise. Next time you read a diatribe about white people, in your mind change the word ‘white’ to ‘black’. You’ll be horrified by the results, I guarantee it.

All those op-eds in the liberal media attacking ‘white women’ for ‘weaponising’ their tears are transformed into flagrantly racist screeds. So a Guardian headline from 2018 would become: ‘How black women use strategic tears to silence other women.’ Imagine if a newspaper actually published something like that?

Robin DiAngelo’s life work would become the interrogation of ‘black fragility’. ‘All black people have absorbed hateful ideology’, the alternative-universe Ms DiAngelo might say. We would balk at that, right?

Where top TV execs currently damn old TV shows like Monty Python as ‘too white’, in this world they might attack the 1990s sitcom Desmond’s for being ‘too black’. Jon Snow’s Brexit sneer of 2019 would become: ‘I have never seen so many black people in one place, it’s extraordinary.