Tuesdays lecture looked at racism and patriarchy. The lecture looked back on historical racist events. When I look back on history I like learning about what happened in the past but learning about the ways in which people are treated and in some places are still treated makes me feel sick. When we looked at the civil rights movement in America, I honestly can’t get over the way people were treated and I still can’t really wrap my head around why people thought it was okay to treat someone differently due to appearance.

Overall I did find this lecture really eye opening as I always hear and see on the news about the large amounts of racism that there still is in the world, especially in America. That’s where it is always recorded. What really annoys me about it is, that we hear about racism in America and the history of it, but I had never heard about what had happened in Britain, till this lecture. This shocked me, as I know racism unfortunately is still a thing which still exists in todays society but I never knew about the historic racism which happened in the UK. As in school I was only ever taught about America and the civil rights movement. As strange as it sounds I was glad to hear about racism in the UK as it is still a big thing which I feel is ‘swept under the carpet’ a lot as we compare it to the racism which goes on in America such as the gun shootings.