This blog comes as a follow-up to one I posted a few days ago exposing a certain degree of race discrimination in Birmingham (to be dissociated with racism). As you may or may not know, I’m a Law student, and whilst I haven’t studied Criminal Law as yet (French Law took over!) that doesn’t mean I can’t try and offer up some advice based on research I’ve done at home. So to be clear, this post[...]
Being as my last two posts admittedly fought in the corner of non-white people, I thought I’d give that some explanation, as some people have got in touch with me about me potentially being biased. Firstly, I’m white. So we can conclude that something, or things, must have happened for me to think in the way I do, yes? Well, those things are outlined in my two posts – in particular how I was able[...]
EX ANTE Firstly, I’d like to evoke the fact that this article was the whole reason I set up a blog in the first place. It was intended to be a published newspaper feature, but funnily enough only one of the five local newspapers I contacted got back to me with a “we’ll keep your records on file”-esque answer. That being said, I’m sort of glad it’s happened this way; I have a lot to say, an[...]
I grew up and spent my school life in a place where the vast majority of people were Caucasian. If my recollections are correct, there were two black people out of 160-ish in my school year, and not many more Asian. There were never any racist comments made, of course; it was also a place where people were generally quite proper, polite and PC. But that was it; it was just PC. What made it worse w[...]
'At Ninette's, you always eat well'. If you've followed me on Twitter, even for about one millionth of a second, you'll know that I'm currently doing a year abroad in Paris, living with my adorable grandparents. I say adorable; again, if you've followed me, you'll know I complain about them approximately 47 times a day, but it's all in good spirits. In honour of this I thought I'd dedicate my fi[...]