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Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage. (Getty Images)

The legal sector code is a tool for substantive equality in SA’s legal profession

Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Everybody wants white privilege

History teaches us the dangers of one group of people claiming moral authority over the rights of another and Israel should take note

Ugandan police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters demanding the release of jailed MPs.

We were arrested in Uganda while protesting for black lives

White supremacy must be held to account if systemic anti-blackness is to be rooted out of society

Instagram users spent June 2 reflecting on ways to support the black community by posting black squares onto their feeds.

Online allyship: a broken game of do like I do

The idea of displaying solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram hijacked the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag with a performative display of allyship

Sympathy-privilege is a reality. If you have the right aesthetic or social positioning you can have multiple chances to re-enter the moral community with a clean slate. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Who decides who is eligible for forgiveness and rehabilitation?

We should give people second chances. But we need to reflect on whether a black or brown person would survive a fake cancer scandal

Helen Zille creates moral equivalence between white privilege and what she terms as black privilege.(David Harrison/M&G)

Deconstruct irrational debates in SA

White monopoly capital and the Zille privilege tweets are reasons we need logical discourse

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (David Harrison)

White women, black men: Same WhatsApp group

The position of white Afrikaner women and black men illustrates the limitations of a binary view

Morake did not say anything untruthful, nor did she engage in “race baiting” of any kind

Daring to be black in a white space

"White people don’t know the violence of being forced to forgive"

Work hard

Cultural barriers must fall

The exclusionary obstacles that international students face affect their academic performance.

Zuma supporters at his rape trial.

​Three Ps against progress

The level of outrage at wrongdoing should be weighted by harm done to the vulnerable. Instead, the Ombud seems more sensitive to harmed privilege

Pietermaritzburg Girls High: Codes of conduct won’t fix entrenched racism

Being told to “get over it” negates what we constantly have to say about race: just because we’re equal on paper does not mean we are equal in reality

Before being ostracised by the right as a proponent of paedophilia

Provocateur vs racist: The bigotry double standard

In today’s world people who are white, male, and right-wing can easily get away with racism and bigotry

Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, chair of the Moral Regeneration Movement

​The unbearable whiteness of white philosophers

There’s no escape for those who are responsible for colonial subjugation and dispossession.

Imagining the Loeries from the future, where the current inequalities are dealt with

Taking a look at the ad industry’s premier event from a futuristic perspective sheds light on its current inequalities.

White men also perpetrate acts of violence

But white privilege distorts that fact and so the focus turns on black men as the main instigators.

Letters to the editor: November 6 to 12 2015

Readers write in about white privilege, and Eskom.

Use your privilege to destroy privilege

Use your privilege to destroy privilege

Practical advice for pale people who wish to dismantle the system that favours them.