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British Vogue’s first black Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful reported that he was racially profiled at his own office on Wednesday when he returned to work in London from the lockdown. “Today, I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my workplace. As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay,” he posted …
British Vogue’s first black Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful reported that he was racially profiled at his own office on Wednesday when he returned to work in London from the lockdown.
“Today, I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my workplace. As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay,” he posted on Instagram. “Just because our timelines and weekends are returning to normal, we cannot let the world return to how it was. Change needs to happen. And it needs to happen now.”
He said Vogue publisher Condé Nast “moved quickly to dismiss the security guard, but it just goes to show that sometimes it doesn’t matter what you’ve achieved in the course of your life: the first thing that some people will judge you on is the colour of your skin.”
A spokesperson for Condé Nast said that the security team is hired through a third party. “The matter is being handled with them directly. We’re confident we’ll be able to resolve it with them,” the rep said.
The Ghanaian-born Enninful was named editor-in-chief in 2017.
