Reflections on Racism: on Being Mixed Race, Part 1
These are individual experiences but they are not the fault of any individual, but instead the collective system of racism, grown out of a history of oppression, misrepresentation in dominant media and a failure to deliver a more diverse curriculum in schools. There are many forms of privilege, many of which I benefit from: class, gender, financial, place of birth, education, but this post reflects only on racial. Part 1 On being half-Indian (Kenyan-Asian) growing up in small town monocultural Lincolnshire (mid 1980s- 2001) Mostly very positive as I was a very confident 3rd child and had a close group of (all white) friends in a comfortable happy family, good schools, a friendly middle class neighbourhood and a left-wing Government through my teenage years. Late 1980s. I don’t remember the specific event but I recall the conversations afterwards: My Punjabi Sikh Grandfather made a rare visit up to see us, leaving the relative safety of the multicultural North London neighbourhood where