{"id":2169,"date":"2020-06-12T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:50:41","slug":"black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"Black lives matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>East London Humanists support demands for action against racism and for greater awareness. Opinion piece Barking and Dagenham Post 18.6.20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">Why are there so few black Olympic swimming champions?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">After all, black athletes excel in many other sports. The question is one of many considered by geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford in <em>&#8216;<\/em><em>How to argue with a racist\u2019<\/em><em> <\/em>published earlier this year.&nbsp; Adam is also a patron of Humanists UK. He demolishes one old fallacy, that it\u2019s because black people have heavy bones. He points instead to the strong correlation between lack of achievement and historic lack of access to pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">Yet the \u2018heavy bones\u2019 myth is still believed even by some well-meaning liberals.&nbsp; It\u2019s just one example of many engrained false notions about racial difference and physical and intellectual ability which don\u2019t withstand scientific scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">Of course, all lives matter and inequality is rife. But <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/\">Black Lives Matter <\/a>confronts the particular scourge which non-whites still encounter on a daily basis, an additional layer of grief and difficulty suffered for no reason other than skin colour. The roots are deep. Records show slave owners lived throughout this land, including several in Barking.\u00a0 We should all be concerned that black Londoners are many times more likely to be stopped and searched than white. And the disproportionate toll that Covid-19 has taken on BAME communities, particularly here in East London, should be investigated with the urgency it deserves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">We have not been \u2018all in it together\u2019 during the Covid 19 crisis. We must make sure we emerge with greater awareness of and willingness to address prejudice and inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul Kaufman<br>Chair East London Humanists<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East London Humanists support demands for action against racism and for greater awareness. Opinion piece Barking and Dagenham Post 18.6.20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-yZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}