Ahead of his talk in London this month, US writer and producer Tariq Nasheed talks to The Voice about the existence of white supremacy, why voting is just a distraction and the importance of group economics. TARIQ NASHEED chuckles as he recalls watching the award-winning film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, based on the 1971 novel written by African American author Ernest J Gaines. The title character is played by Cicely Tyson and tells the story of a woman’s life from a childhood in slavery through to the civil rights movement. “Throughout the whole movie she is just getting beat up by life and, in the grand finale, she is old, so old she is shaking and she goes into a restaurant and can drink from the white water fountain and that’s when the movie ends,” says Nasheed with a laugh, before getting serious. “That’s basically the experience of black people in America. We get to drink from the white water fountain, so racism must be over. What are we complaining about?...