Silence is as bad as approval,” she says in the video named ‘Five Ways to Disrupt Racism’. Like many other black people living in Western countries, she states that she has been a victim of racism. According to Penny, racism is not only about discrimination based on skin colour and where someone comes from. Internalised racism exists where individuals aspire so much to adopt the Western culture to the point of loathing themselves, their culture and their own people,” she said. She encouraged everyone to do their part, however small, in order to reduce and finally eliminate racism in the world.

Source: Daily Nation November 24, 2016 09:58 UTC