''Chad
Bilyeu, an African American photographer who has been living in
Amsterdam for six years, says he wasn’t surprised by the NRC
article, and in general, is no longer shocked by blatant racism in
mainstream Dutch media because of the lack of diversity among the
Dutch professional class.''
“I’ve worked in a high skilled position in the Netherlands and the level of integration is pitifully low. You’re working at [places like] NRC and you don’t have black colleagues. There aren’t any Turkish people. There aren’t any Moroccans. You have a very small community that’s usually overlooked by the status quo. There’s no Dutch Ta-Nehisi Coates. There’s no Dutch Neil Degrasse Tyson, There’s no Dutch Cornel West. If they do exist, they are marginalized and their voices are not taken seriously. There’s no editor who’s gonna say, hey, maybe we shouldn’t use n—– in the title.”
