If you are rolling your eyes at yet another column about race, then you have your answer to the headline above.
Likewise, if you are fed up of footballers taking the knee, or you share in the denial around Meghan, race and the Royal Family.
If you’ve seen the social media tweets actually celebrating the shooting, in the head, of the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson over the weekend then you’ll already know.
Only on the surface has anything at all changed since May 25 last year when George Floyd was killed. Visibility has improved across a range of organisations. The dial, however, has simply moved from minus-five to zero.
Many of our white allies – who are actively fighting for change inside the arts, education, sport, industry and the media – now understand why black people are so exhausted.
You only have to look at the reaction to seeing Alison Hammond presenting ITV’s This Morning, Alex Scott on the BBC’s Football Focus, Clive Myrie on Mastermind or an all-black panel appearing on Loose Women.
You only have to recall the howls of outrage over a black family appearing on Sainsbury’s Christmas ad or Diversity on Britain’s Got Talent.
Or the booing of footballers taking the knee by critics who wilfully refuse to accept black lives matter as a truism, not a political party.
Confected culture wars have convinced some white people that their way of life could be threatened if others get a fair crack - or even into power.
In a way it is to be expected. Centuries of oppression were never going to be brought down with the statues in a year.
In fact, some things are worse.
Stop and search targeting black men in London rose 40% during the lockdowns. Covid killed and hospitalised black people in vastly disproportionate numbers – yet we were left off the Government’s vaccine priority list.
Black children are going missing at an alarming rate in London.
In October, Met police officers stopped black athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos in their car – and put their three-month-old baby onto their database. MPs too absurd to even name in this column openly rejected training courses to educate themselves in relation to their black constituents.
The country continues to be led by a racist Prime Minister. The Windrush scandal continues under his watch.
Social media companies won’t block racism but will move faster than Usain Bolt to stop content appearing if it breaches copyright.
The football world went from insisting Black Lives Matter to being afraid to say the word black.
The Diversity & Confusion Report by The Unmistakables last week found 40% of office staff are still afraid to use the word in relation to race or ethnicity in the workplace.
Another report found Britain’s black professionals are twice as likely to be rejected for a pay rise. A litany of sporting bodies still have precious few black people on their boards. Only last week a well known radio station hosted a radio discussion during which white female callers admitted they were scared of black men without knowing why.
Last Wednesday the head of Pimlico Academy resigned after students staged a revolt against bans on afros and Black History Month.
That’s your reality post-George Floyd.
The only real cause for optimism is that there are more white people prepared to highlight the issues.
