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<span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Please take pledge for eliminating racism from our universities. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Let
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">I want to thank all authors for sharing their racism experiences in the recent Special issue of the journal Nature dedicated to overcoming racism in science. </span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Details
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">There are many articles in different disciplines in this special issue including an article on racism in geoscience in a UK university. It is very disappointing to read about the scale of
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">There is a huge pressure to hide racial discrimination issues in some UK universities. Hence it is important to have support structures and frameworks in universities and scientific organisations
so that more colleagues who are suffering racial discrimination and injustices can get courage to share their racism experiences, so lessons are learnt, appropriate and effective actions are taken, so that colleagues and students do not face any racism in
the future. This is important to help build Race Equality in Science in the long term.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">It is important to have initiatives like GeoForAll to help build Race Equality in Geospatial Science in the UK. I would like to thank all colleagues in GeoForAll for their contributions to
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