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He said: »Racism is a subject which has been taboo to talk about for a while but it shouldn’t be.
«It’s been something I’ve felt was taboo to talk about and I’ve never felt comfortable doing so even though I have always had strong views on racism.
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He said: «All public bodies need to review their equality policies with a special regard to race which is still a taboo subject.»We have the Equality Act which covers nine protected characteristics including age, disability, gender and LGBT. »
«From my experience, people will generally discuss things like disability and gender, which are very important, but as soon as you mention race they will go quiet and defensive, so race is still a taboo subject and remains one of the ‘uncomfortable truths’.»Several black workers in the public sector told me that race is mentioned it’s quickly shut down by their colleagues and managers, so there is no opportunity to learn. » The point is – who feels it, knows it. »
However, that controversy pales in comparison to moments within the film itself. » After all, there are countless moments that detail the plights of black and brown members of the LGBTQ community. » Born and raised in a black family, I understand that being gay is still very taboo in some African American homes. » Strong belief in God and the teachings of the Bible can lead several to view homosexuality as a sin. » With this in mind, many young black men and women struggle to find and embrace their identity in fear of repercussions. » As such, it is all the more impressive to know that Moonlight is perhaps the definitive film to bring that struggle to the forefront. »
Joshua Freeman, a labor historian at City University of New York, said he’s not surprised that the labor movement doesn’t want to focus on police unions. » It wasn’t until the police killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014 that the labor movement began to acknowledge racism in policing, he said. » But more existential questions about reforming police unions are still taboo.»
The next thing is: begin to monitor their own comfort level and emotions. » When we begin to read and learn about this information, it might counter some of the ways in which White people have been socialized, and people will have emotional responses to that — anger, sadness, guilt. » Begin to process that with friends, family members, but not to overburden people of color with that processing. » I think that gets folks ready to have these open conversations in which they can be fully present for their children. » It’s important for people to know that they don’t need to know everything, that they can be open with their child and say, ‘I’m just beginning to explore this myself, but let’s have a conversation. » ’ This allows children to know that they can have difficult conversations in the home, and that race is not a taboo topic. »
«More resources for white parents that I have found helpful ❤️ Raising Race Conscious Children — this is a wonderful resource to begin conversations with young children. » I went to a workshop with SURJ Baltimore, and two things really stuck with me: 1- White children notice when we don’t discuss skin colors. » They learn from that omission —> talking about skin color is taboo. » But, kids are very impressionable, and us making a conscious effort to »notice« skin color and race by thinking aloud while reading begins building their vocabulary and a foundational awareness. » 2- Many white parents feel that books »about race« have to deal with oppression. » It’s so important for white children to see dynamic characters of color in stories that have nothing to do with racism. » .
Honest conversations, she says, are the only way women can help each other. » When she had an abortion in her early twenties, she had no idea what to expect. »I chose to have what is known as a medical abortion – if I had known the goriness around having a medical abortion, I would have perhaps chosen a different way,« she says »I still wouldn’t have had a child at that time but I wouldn’t have had the type of abortion I had. » « Abortion is one of the last remaining taboos for women, and especially in the black community, says Candice.»I’ve had so many DMs and emails from older women, who have had proper backstreet abortions. » A lot of them were raised or grew up on Carribean islands where not only is it taboo, but it goes against a lot of religious beliefs. » If you’re found out for having one your whole family could disown you. » Black women in the generations above me still struggle with secrets and guilt. » «Things are changing though. » »Millennials and Gen Z are tired,« she says. »Tired of the taboos, tired of the control, tired of the silence, tired of the secrecy. » For a long time black women aren’t even heard within the black community; your feelings don’t matter, you put up and shut up and you do a job you don’t like, you might have children you don’t want, be with someone you don’t want to be with. » Life has to be lived a certain way otherwise people will gossip about you or you’ll be outed by your church. » I call it ‘respectibilty politics’. » «And it’s not just abortion. » »You would never talk openly in the black community about struggles with fertility,« she says. »Someone will want to bathe you in holy water and say that you’re not going to church enough. » It couldn’t possibly be that your body is physically struggling to conceive and you need to go to the doctor. » Black females and Gen Z are just over that. » «That ‘put up and shut up’ attitude is never more prevalent than in the healthcare system. » Data shows that black women are five times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. » They are numbers Candice is only too familiar with. » When she gave birth to her first child, her daughter Esme, now six, despite repeatedly telling medical staff that she felt ‘worse than I should’ after an emergency Caesarean, she suffered from septic shock and was hospitalised for a month. »
As a former HR executive, I understand that race, religion and politics are taboo subjects that we’ve learned to avoid – certainly in the workplace. » The 2020 Together Forward @ Work report by The Society for Human Resources Management indicates that 45% of Black workers and 30% of white workers said that their organization discourages such discussions. » The underlying reason is probably fear of potential conflict. »
Shannon Warren is president of the Women’s Diversity Initiative of Oklahoma LLC and was the founder of two nonprofits dedicated to business ethics. » «Homosexuality in general is very taboo in the Black community, so that on top of the religious aspect, it was something that I did feel like I needed to withhold for a while». »
Additionally, «Candyman» was released at a time before franchises like «Harry Potter,» «Twilight» and the Marvel superhero films captured the market on mainstream fantasy and science fiction. » As mainstream film fandoms shift toward fast-paced, family-friendly fiction with great effects and charming ensembles, the gory practical effects and sweeping, taboo romance elements of «Candyman» and «Frankenstein have fallen out of favor, left to be appreciated by horror and genre film fans more than the general public. »
Enough! It’s time to end the denial, pierce the taboos, raise consciousness about the problem, and confront and criminalize anti-Black racism and discrimination in Morocco. » That is the message young black Moroccan activists are conveying as they organize and commiserate with fellow black Moroccans on social networks: like »Black Moroccans« and »The Mazeej project« on Instagram and Facebook. »
Slavery, concubinage, and relatively widespread miscegenation has produced a contemporary Moroccan population on a colour continuum as opposed to sharp breaks between black and white. » Yet, there are national and family silences about slavery and its aftermath – racism – in Morocco. » The topics are taboo. » The denial, the silence is part of a larger national discourse that does not acknowledge the magnitude of the trans-Saharan slave trade and the existence of Morocco’s marginalized minority black community whose stories have not been told. » This reflects a country defined by colour lines and strict social hierarchy. » Moroccans distance themselves from blackness by all means: whitening creams, facial scrubs, hair straighteners, and a careful construction of ethnic and cultural identity that excludes a large number of descent: the tens of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans brought to Morocco through the trans-Saharan slave trade. »
Quatabou:»Of course, those words offend me. » There are even Berber words that are still used today by that community to verbally insult Blacks. » I think the education system needs to include lessons on all forms of slavery that have taken place in Morocco in order to raise awareness . » To stop these verbal assaults, we must break the taboos. » We need campaigns against Negrophobia . » We need seminars, TEDx, books, podcasts, reports. » We must also highlight the experiences of black Moroccans so that people understand that words hurt and can hinder the healthy construction of Moroccan adults. » We need to see more diversity on screen; highlight the beauty of the genetic diversity of Moroccans. » We have to teach people to question themselves. » Show off successful black Moroccans; display the reality that we are just as smart and bright as the rest of society. » Make us more visible. » Show that we are here; that we exist. » That our future is not mapped out as only workers in the fields or sellers of knick-knacks. » There is a HUGE educational gap, and as long as it is there, received ideas about slavery and black inferiority will continue to take hold in Morocco. » «As. » Ms.
Quatabou notes, progress will require piercing the Moroccan social taboo against discussing slavery and racism:»Slavery and anti-Black racism are taboo subjects in Morocco. » Moroccans are in huge denial and feel that racism does not exist in Morocco because one, we are all Muslims and Muslims are all brothers; and two, they only acknowledge regional prejudices while minimizing the legacy of slavery and anti-Black racism. » Non-black Moroccans are convinced that the whole universe is racist except them. » «This attitude holds, she notes, when most non-Black Moroccans denigrate their fellow black citizens for their skin colour in their own country; consider them to be descendants of slaves and inferiors and render them, through discrimination, virtually invisible in the media, in films, and in any high-status job.
Pierce the taboos and silence. » Raise awareness, raise awareness, and further raise awareness about anti-Black Racism in Morocco.
Finally, as a final note of encouragement for non-Black Moroccans to abandon anti-Black racism, it is worth mentioning that psychologically, »white« Moroccans, who practice racism, at least in part because it feels good to look down on the »other,« may suffer from it as much as their black victims: »When a person is deeply invested in his group’s dominance, he has a euphoric ‘on top of the world’ feeling, while in reality he is in a state of self-inflation. » This leads to a severe distortion of his capacity to think and to judge. » He and his are over-evaluated. » Everybody outside is under-evaluated. » And underneath may lie the fear that he cannot live up to the constructed ideal of his own perfection. » «As uprisings for Black lives spread around the world following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer at the end of May, dozens of people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital as well, to protest anti-Black racism — a long-time taboo in the country. » Black Tunisian activists have taken to social media since the Black Lives Matter protests began to express solidarity with Black communities in the United States and their fight against police brutality, but also to draw attention to their own struggle against discrimination and marginalization by the Tunisian state. »
One significant complicating factor, however, is the history of slavery in the region, which remains a highly contentious social and political taboo. » Slavery was abolished in what is now Tunisia — then a regency under Ottoman rule — in 1846, making it the first Muslim country to do so. » Yet the Tunis regency failed to integrate Black Tunisians as fully equal citizens. » Freed slaves, mostly in the south of the country, continued to face discrimination and social and economic marginalization — a legacy that persists today, with the disproportionate presence of Black Tunisians working in mostly menial jobs, and subject to a system of patronage under the descendants of their former masters. »
The recent BLM protests are the latest example of how post-revolutionary Black Tunisian activism has brought repressed issues of race and racism to the surface. » Now, the work of urgently integrating anti-racism into the civil society agenda continues — as part of a broader struggle to ensure Tunisia’s ongoing transition to a more democratic, egalitarian society in which equal rights for minority populations are upheld. » Conversations surrounding mental health in the Black community are often considered taboo, but a yoga instructor from Baltimore is aiming to change that narrative. » Changa Bell, the creator of the Black Male Yoga Initiative, is helping Black men heal from trauma through yoga, ABC News reported. »
From Jeanne Duval, the »Black Venus« who was mistress and muse to the poet Baudelaire – and who was also painted by Manet – to Cuban singer Maria Martinez and the novelist Alexandre Dumas, the author of The Count of Monte Cristo, Murrell insisted »there was a black presence in avant garde circles when artists and writers defied convention« when »interracial socialising« was taboo. »
There is still a glaring stigma associated with HIV in the Black community. » Dialogue around sex is still taboo in our culture, so it is no surprise that there has been no traction on improving the conversation around HIV. »
«It has long been taboo to discuss ethnicity, yet change can only come about once we have these conversations.
The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence system that collected 24 news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to black people
