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I mean a lot of companies and institutions responded and looked at their own policies so I would imagine there are smaller changes everywhere that we are probably unaware of. But dismantling racism is hardly an easy task. Especially with the backlash it gets. It makes me sad to see that here because as a white working-class person from the North-West of England, I fully understand that people feel beaten down by the system and don't want to hear about someone else's struggles *especially* when things that are immaterial get mentioned like racial 'representation'. But representation, language etc all of those things can be really important to class struggle. What's more the *most* important thing for class struggle is solidarity. We need an international working class movement. We have a big white working class population in the UK, but look worldwide and there is no doubt that class disparities follow racial lines, and tackling racism needs to be part of that movement. Of course any movement will get hijacked by middle/upper class people who are disconnected from the actual struggles - but that's not just in BLM that's in all our attempts at political change. George Orwell wrote in the 1930s that the left always fails because it gets taken over by middle class people who alienated the base support. Just because you're seeing that a lot with BLM, a lot of celebs and people who happen to be black but also super rich promoting that movement, doesn't mean it's a 'trend'. What is an online trend is pitting BLM against class movements as if they are somehow at odds. That's where everyone's attention is now unfortunately- but don't forget the thousands and thousands perhaps millions of black working class people who did what we have not done in decades and got out on to the streets and demanded change for their communities. That's worth something, change or no.