By Kehinde Andrews
2016 saw the British public support an openly racist campaign for Brexit and a sharp rise in racial attacks after the vote. Across the Atlantic it was the same year that America elected the most implausible, racist and misogynistic president in memory. Both of these events plus a seemingly endless wave of bad news has led to the idea that 2016 was, if not the worst, then an historically bad year. But we are looking at this wrong, 2016 was exactly the year we needed to wake ourselves up to the reality of the situation we are in.
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