Ebun Joseph

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

Quotes

• 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.
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• Racial stratification will demand you “stay there” – do not stay there. If this door won’t budge, try another.
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• 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.
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• Don’t feel guilty for being white – do something with it’
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• You must first identify the advantage of white skin, before you can see the disadvantage experienced by those without it.
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• 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.
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• The system breaks every conceivable human right and history will judge us on this. It must end
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• Racial stratification will demand you “stay there” – do not stay there. If this door won’t budge, try another.
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• 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.