Design and Ethnicity
Design and Ethnicity Then modern world, for all of its great achievements has never been able to remove the cruel hold that racism and the idea of white-supremacism has on it. This is not to say that all that are present today agree with or actively take part in these views, but to emphasise that it has been 214 years since the abolition of slavery in the UK. What has changed in the world today which makes the statement that life has improved, if certain people are marginalised and oppressed for being themselves. In 1955 Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. You would like to think that this segregation and oppression would have been stamped out in the 21st century, but here we are in 2020 and yet another black man has been killed, by police using excessive force and openly discriminating the black community. I will ask the question again, What has changed? We first must look at the statistics, in the UK there are around 64.6million people living in t