Racism at work - Critical Conversations

Sharon and I have a conversation about racism at work.  We
intend to have Critical Conversations once a month about issues
which have come up in the course of our work.  This episode
and as I suspect may be the case with future conversations,
relies heavily upon lived experiences and our honest reflections
on some of what we have heard from colleagues, students and
mentees and our sense-making of the experiences.


 


We begin our discussions by sharing our personal early
realisations and experiences of racism.  We then go on to
share 4 examples from our personal databases – thanks to
colleagues Jo Williams and Shabnam Ahmed of the @SchoolofShabs
who asked us to share some of what we’ve heard about experiencing
racism at work.


13:00 – Don’t play the race card – ‘not holding onto our own
truth………’

18:30 – Accents, aggressive black staff – ‘can we not bring
expression and passion to our work……..’

29:15 – Relationships with line managers, lack of trust -
‘Have you really got my back........'

36:35 - Racism from white clients/service users



 


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