Comment on: How do you react on a racist attack?

I think that trade unions should indeed help to reduce racism. Nonetheless, they should not be alone! Employers are also worthy warriors in the battle against racial discrimination. There are some things that they could do, I will illustrate with 2 examples:

First, employers can contribute by creating a multicultural environment. Consequentially, different races will get to know each other if they like it or not. By doing that, prejudices will eventually disappear, if not, your staff will.

Secondly, they can form a committee who is in charge of reducing racism in their workplace. This group could put on workshops, improve race relations by making a long-term action plan and deal with complaints from workers.

In my opinion, you might be able to eliminate racism completely by getting rid of capitalism. Our society happens to divide the human population into different groups. What we need to end racial discrimination is world revolution!

Ward Algoet
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