Viewpoint: ‘When black lives matter all lives will matter’ − A teacher and three students discuss the BLM movement

Abstract

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is generating a new appetite for understanding the ubiquity of systemic racism. In this short piece, a professor and three newly graduated students from different racialized groups reflect on the reproduction of social inequalities in key institutions and on what decolonization means for the nation, not just for education.

Keywords

• Black Lives Matter
• systemic racism
• decolonizing curriculum and monuments
• inequalities
• colourism