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  1. Aug 18

    Landlord: Flat is available and you can view it tomorrow. What's your full name? Me: Spells name Landlord: Hmm, where are you originally from? Me: Gambia Landlord: I forgot, you can't view it tomorrow but I'll get back to you... in Edinburgh

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  2. Sep 7

    Hey , I hope this tweet finds you well. Please can you let us know how and why this tweet is still up? Many thanks!

    1 reply 20 retweets 58 likes
  3. Jun 7

    No my daughter doesn’t have a short name. Her name is Te Rangiaio.

    1 reply 2 retweets 31 likes
  4. Jun 23
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    This is why we are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

    2 replies 7 retweets 59 likes
  5. Aug 13
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    Ok... So then when the covid positive person is pakeha why is that not stated in the media? Is it because the pakeha is seen as the "default" race and everyone else is "other"??? Not good enough. .

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  6. Sep 26

    A friend's child came home with this homework. Why on earth are tasks like this still being set?!

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  7. May 5

    BAME woman criticised for her 'tone' by a white man, when she said something he didn't like.

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    I will respectfully challenge the Government - I want our country to succeed. However, I will not 'watch my tone' when dozens of NHS and care staff are dying unnecessarily. A clip of my Q to the Health Sec today.
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  8. Jul 1

    This morning a patient referred to me and several NHS colleagues as ‘what I call colonial’ ... why is this still happening in 2020?

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  9. Oct 5

    How do you feel @localredz knowing that this clever comedian made the final of a prestigious talent show and all you made was this grammatically erroneous tweet?

    1 retweet 27 likes
  10. Oct 27

    Thanks so much to all of the participants who joined us today, our presenter and amazing panel - to quote one of our panellists, Jacqueline Fitzpatrick ‘now we have given the invisible a name, we can make a change’

    6 retweets 11 likes
  11. Aug 28

    Is there a word for the situation where 2 tweets are situated fortuitously consecutively in one's feed? Thank you for helping my blood pressure stay lower than it would otherwise have been...

    3 retweets 19 likes
  12. Jun 6

    My poster for today's silent protest in Mannheim. I focused on the everyday racism I experience as a black German. Maybe try in 2020 " where your parents from?" if you are in doubt and don't want to offend.

    1 reply 5 retweets 46 likes
  13. Jul 29

    The everyday racism again Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities is present even in my favourite open water swimming group. No apology or recognition of wrongdoing. Hurt, shocked and alienated.

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  14. Oct 18

    As a white woman, I never have to deal with this nonsense.

    Cop in Fredrick MD said he couldn't see my seatbelt... ran against a red shirt.
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  15. Oct 22

    Have you noticed how it's fine to tweet 'Gammons', yet equivalent offensive terms for minorities result in a suspended account.

    4 replies 8 retweets 28 likes
  16. Nov 19

    Insightful article in about casual racism at BMI. Just goes to show that companies with policies prohibiting racism aren't necessarily racially inclusive in practice.

  17. Jan 17
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    Hashtags aren't a way of signing off, they're to make it easy for people to see related tweets. In this case might be appropriate.

    1 retweet 23 likes
  18. Oct 14

    Just got a message on LinkedIn asking me if I wanted to book a session on English communication skills. I wonder what it was about my foreign name or brown skin that made the sender think of sending me such a kind offer? 🤔

    15 replies 14 retweets 85 likes
  19. Jun 5

    Listen to black voices speak about racism in Britain: Alex Wheatle MBE was arrested for his participation in the Brixton riots in 1981. He tells the common story of injustice faced by black Britons FOLLOW & SUPPORT

    2 replies 22 retweets 47 likes
  20. Aug 31

    I first wanted to debunk the myth that 's was linked solely to the infamous Tuskegee Study. I learned from my nationwide barbershop study that actually contributed to 's heightened mistrust.

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