The way in which the contestants on Love Island have been flippantly referring to race is indicative of detrimental attitudes to race that still exist today, Ms Vassell states.
“It is a fetish because the type of mixed race all these girls are looking for specifically is half black/half white,” they wrote.
Contestants Georgia Steel and Ellie Brown have both made the point of saying that they have a preference for “mixed-race” partners, which has caused widespread outrage on social media.
“For starters, by simply saying that ‘mixed race’ is your type, it fails to acknowledge the fact that being mixed race can mean a multitude of different ethnic mixes.