October 9, 2017
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr This week’s lecture with Derek was a surprise. At the beginning of the lecture we were asked to write down what we thought Race, Ethnicity and Discrimination were. I thought I would find it easy to write down what I thought each of […] Continue reading
October 9, 2017
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Before the lecture on racism, if you were to ask me what are the definitions of race, ethnicity and discrimination I would have grouped all three terms together and given them the same, basic definition. I thought I had a good understanding of the terms, but after the input it was clear to see that …
October 3, 2017
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Before our values lecture, we were all asked to write down what our definitions were of the words race, ethnicity and discrimination. Now initially I thought these words would be easy to define. When I actually sat down and thought about it, it was a little bit more challenging to write one simple sentence. I […] Continue reading
October 2, 2017
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I, like most people I hope, don’t think of myself as a racist. I define a racist as someone who makes decisions or judgements based on their preconceptions of someone and I don’t put myself in that category. However, during a lecture the other week we spoke about conscious and unconscious bias and I really like these terms. […] Continue reading
October 1, 2017
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Comments Off on Three Powerful Words – Race, Ethnicity and Discrimination
This post is a reflection from the Values: Self Society and the Professions lecture on Tuesday 26th September 2017 with Derek Robertson. Summary of Events Before the lecture began, we were all asked to write down our initial thoughts on the terms Race, Ethnicity, and Discrimination. These are all terms in which although I have heard numerous times, have never really looked up or […] Continue reading
September 29, 2017
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When I was younger, my knowledge of racism and discrimination stemmed mainly from my novel reading. I found it disturbing but still exciting to read books like A Light to my Path by Lynn Austin. It was shocking to hear of the discrimination against African-American slaves. It was thrilling to read of their eventual victory […] Continue reading
September 29, 2017
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Comments Off on (26.09.17 Values) Only Human.
“Well, is it?” “Is it what?” “A myth?” Last week we had an input about race, ethnicity and discrimination. To begin with I thought it would be very straight forward: come in, get angry then leave. I was wrong, very wrong. Although I was aware that racism was still very active and a part of […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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During our Values lecture this morning, we were discussing the ideas of racism. During the presentation, we were shown the history of racism towards African/American people from the 19th century up until the present day. It was seen that racism was a big part of history and a story in particular we spoke about was […] Continue reading
