Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

Instead, I was met with what I’d been trying to pretend hadn’t always been a room full of white not-quite-liberals whose opinions, like their money, had been inherited.

A comment on working in either the Arts, or really any sector in the UK. These white not-quite-liberals differ from the well-meaning white liberals in that they don’t see a problem with the way that society is today. And while they benefit from the social, fiscal and political structures that have kept them in power, they still somehow think that meritocracy is what got them to where they are. It didn’t! Your family are rich, you basically just fall upwards your whole life! Come on!