Abstract
Subtle biases and structural inequalities need challenging just like overt acts of racial aggression and discrimination. Subtle biases and structural inequalities need challenging just like overt acts of racial aggression and discrimination.
Highlights
Subtle biases and structural inequalities need to be challenged, just like overt acts of racial discrimination
Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrate in London in July 2020
As is often the case for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and students, many less fortunate than me, I bring the burden of my personal history to university
Summary
Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrate in London in July 2020. Subtle biases and structural inequalities need to be challenged, just like overt acts of racial discrimination. I am comfortable with, and proud of, my Indian heritage and culture, as well as my British heritage. As is often the case for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and students, many less fortunate than me, I bring the burden of my personal history to university. I was raised in the English Midlands, the son of an Indian father and an English mother. My father was one of a large influx of people from the Indian subcontinent who settled in the region from the 1950s to the 1970s. The insult, derived from ‘Pakistani’, was thrown at anyone with real or perceived roots in the Indian subcontinent. A monkey chant, a sneer, a condescending attitude — these things accumulate to do corrosive damage over time.
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