Eight years ago, I wrote my first blog. It was about my experience of institutional racism in the Met Police and used an example to illustrate my own lack of understanding of the issues at the time I was serving. You can read ‘Institutional Racism, The Met and Me’ here here https://catemoore.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/institutional-racism-the-met-me/ and the next blog, ‘How to be Institutionally Better’ which addressed some of the responses I received https://catemoore.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-to-be-institutionally-better/. It is fair to say that whilst the underlying sentiments of my words then are still true today, I may express them a little differently now. I have learned that the power in what we say is often found in how we say it.
This summer has seen an outpouring of emotion across much of the world, after the incomprehensible cruelty of the death of George Floyd, a black American man during an arrest by a white American Police Officer. Black Lives Matter became a focal point for protestors, some of whom followed the ethos of...
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