The Demand for Racial Equality Can Be as Simple As, Let Us Breathe

Carol Cooper is head of equality, diversity and human rights at Birmingham Community Health Care Trust. She asks us to rethink racial equality in the wake of George Floyd's death. The US carried out its subjugation largely on its own shores while UK has had to live in the shadow of its sins. In the grim context of Floyd's death and what preceded it, the demand for racial equality can be as simple as let us breathe.