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Anti-Blackness, The NHS & The Black Healthcare Workers Who Perpetuate It

Black people, especially Black women, have often found themselves being gaslit by other Black people on the racism they have experienced. It comes at all angles, in all spheres of public and private life – see Kemi Badenoch endorsing the Sewell report.

We are not even spared these experiences when it comes to more intimate areas of our lives, from Black people (especially men) defending abusers to stereotypes about how we experience health and disease. It is no surprise then that Black people, especially Black women, bear the brunt of the pervasive anti-Black racism within the NHS.

It is well documented how the NHS is fragmenting before our eyes, through state sanctioned privatisation, insidious funding cuts and increasingly impossible demands on the workforce.