Guest blog from Peter Chang on his experience of casual racism at private school [Repost]
Okay SO I saw this on the timeline a few days ago, and given everything that's going on I guess it's a relevant thing to speak about, not just from the context of being a private school kid (something I don't particularly like talking about), but as a wider reflection of society. This is going to be a bit of a long read, sorry. From my experience going to a private secondary school, I can tell you that amongst other things, casual racism in private schools definitely exists and is a massive problem. Not just between students, but with staff as well. At the time, I didn't really notice it all that much, but looking back on it I realise that those experiences shaped me as a person quite massively. I also realise that I was entirely complicit in perpetuating these kinds of attitudes, not just towards people that look like me, but also to people of other minority ethnic groups that went to my school, mostly without even realising it because of how normal it was. I can onl...