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Dear sister: ‘I wonder if my silence played a hand in your suffering’

‘I had been conditioned to believe that racism was no longer real. So my approach to bullying and abuse has been to suck it up,’ writes Téa Mutonji in a letter to her sister. ‘Now, I wonder if I should have spoken out so that, seven years later, you didn’t experience it too.’