“{it is simply} another manifestation of a really deep, unshakable predisposition of Europeans to dominate and marginalise the weak and poorer countries {of their colonial past}”
“we are forever to be subjugated, we are forever to be dominated”
Marla Dukharan, speaking on David McWilliams latest podcast (start at 27:17 in)
Do you believe you are fair? that your country is?
Do you believe you are well informed about systemic racism? Do you consider it enough for you to not be racist, or are you now choosing to educate yourself to understand the deep biases in the system so that you can then choose to be anti-racist
Today seeking to amplify the words and message of my dear friend, the brilliant economist Marla Dukharan. Marla and I share a passion for fairness and so addressing inequality, yet I have never heard her to passionate as she is now.
Please listen to Marla on David McWilliams podcast here, from 27:17 in. Listen to my amazing friend at her passionate best for twenty minutes that will open your mind, I assure you.
For background, in May 2019 Marla wrote: “When a blacklist is, unfortunately, just that“, highlighting that ALL of the smaller countries economically “blacklisted” by the EU were majority non-white, whereas all the competitor economies left off their blacklist were majority white. Absolutely no way this is a statistical anomaly.
Last week she wrote: “J’accuse…! The European Union’s Institutionalized Racism and Bullying“.
At this time of focus on systemic racism, I ask white Europeans and Americans to read her latest article, where I feel you will see (and often, for many of you, for the first time) that your countries are consistently and repeatedly, as Marla puts it, “waging economic warfare” upon these smaller countries who can never escape the colonial foot on their neck (yes, I use that last language consciously!).
As a Caymanian, I have lived almost all my adult life seeing attack after attack on our country and other countries from the colonial powers, yet almost every person I know in these large countries simply says “oh, you are a tax haven”. Lazy, lazy and dismissive. “I didn’t know” is exhausting to hear for black people hearing white people now tuning in to systemic racism, just as “ah, but you are a tax haven” is exhausting for Caymanians.
If you believe in fairness, if you believe it is not enough to not be racist, we must all be anti-racist, please read Marla’s blog posts and, more than anything, listen to her talk about this on David’s podcast.