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Ebun Joseph Quotes

born 1970 Nigeria

Ebun Joseph (born 1970) is a Nigerian-Irish lecturer, author, and consultant. She is founder and module coordinator of the first Black Studies module in Ireland at University College Dublin

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You must first identify the advantage of white skin, before you can see the disadvantage experienced by those without it.

Racial stratification will demand you “stay there” – do not stay there. If this door won’t budge, try another.

The system breaks every conceivable human right and history will judge us on this. It must end

You can’t do anything about the colour of the skin you were born into but what you choose to do with that inheritance is very much up to you.

If you can create an opportunity for someone – who would otherwise be marginalised – to get an equal chance at the prize this is what matters.

Don’t feel guilty for being white – do something with it’

But the huge problem here is that it is up to the victim of discrimination to do all the work to fight it – and you become exhausted. They wear you down – if you let them.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ebun Joseph (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.