Growing a social justice legacy involves looking for ways to disrupt systemic racism. This second task of the Building Racial Literacy programme is meant to deepen some of the learning from webinar 1, focusing on understanding how racism operates on a structural, societal level.

For my score, as a white woman I scored very highly – 97%. I have taken part in this type of privilege test before as part of previous training within my role as an EAL teacher so knew that this score would be high. I feel it is important for white people, especially educators, to be reminded of our privilege and the barriers faced by some of our families. Before undertaken anti-racist work, I didn’t automatically connect white privilege and historic racism. It can be uncomfortable and for me, it helped to change my mindset. Before my anti-racist journey I would have considered white privilege to be along the lines of black youths being more likely to be stopped and searched by the police. I didn’t noticed the small everyday reminders, like only having light skin tone plasters in our first aid box at school.