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100 Voices #AllAgainstRacism: Lyra – "I will do everything I can to learn, to use my voice, to stand by you, to stand with you, to stand up to racism and inequality and to make a change"
100 Voices #AllAgainstRacism: Lyra – "I will do everything I can to learn, to use my voice, to stand by you, to stand with you, to stand up to racism and inequality and to make a change"
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Lyra shares her thoughts and experiences as part of 100 Voices: #AllAgainstRacism.

Lyra,
singer

I stand with you. As a woman living with white privileges, I can not pretend to ever fully understand what you have to endure – your pain, your oppression and the injustice you have to face because of the colour of your skin. But I will do everything I can to learn, to use my voice, to stand by you, to stand with you, to stand up to racism and inequality and to make a change.

Read Part 2 of 100 Voices: #AllAgainstRacism in the current issue of Hot Press:

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Special thanks to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission for their support in this project.

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