I compared universities to slave plantations to disturb, not discourage | Kehinde Andrews | Opinion | The Guardian
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“Universities like ‘slave plantations’” was the headline the Sunday Times gave to its article covering a talk I gave recently at Goldsmiths University in London. It is a strange sensation to see your words in print, particularly so when those words are out of order and context therefore altering the meaning. The headline suggests I was somehow comparing the experiences of the enslaved to those of staff and students on campus. That would have been not only absurd but also offensive, considering the history of unspeakable horror of the transatlantic slave trade. The metaphor of the plantation was not used to explore the experiences in the university but the regressive role it plays in society.