Swap out ‘sets’ for ‘shelves’ in the quotation, and it might be a good text for our imagined BAFTA library awards. ‘I think it is the obligation of the people that have created and perpetuate and benefit from a system of oppression to be the ones that dismantle it. We have to do really the hard work to truly understand systemic racism. ‘… It’s more than just having sets that are multi-cultural. For his best actor speech, Phoenix took the industry and the awards to task for its racism and lack of action in addressing inequality: There aren’t many awards for libraries, but if there were, a case for a speech similar to that made by Joachim Phoenix at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards could be made.
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