How Reboot opened my eyes to my unconscious ignorance of discrimination

Taking the blinkers off

I am not really aware of the colour of my skin or cultural ethnicity on a day-to-day basis.

Life throws up daily challenges which take up most of my brain space, like responding to clients, fixing dinner and bringing up two teenage daughters.  This is why movements like Reboot are hugely important, not just to highlight persistent issues surrounding racial inclusion to white colleagues, but also to lift the blinkers from individuals like myself, who have become colour blind while concentrating on a busy life. Early years: consciously aware of discrimination I grew up in Bradford in the 1980s, the youngest of nine, and through a quirk of school boundaries, at a majority whi...